Rahm's Breaking Bread With GOP Senator Riles Nerves
The bipartisan spirit is really taking hold.
Just last night, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was spotted at Michel Richard's Central restaurant having dinner with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), one of three Republicans who voted for President Obama's economic stimulus plan.
One source called to tell us Collins and Emanuel were having dinner with a third man who decidedly wasn't Sen. Ben Nelson, (D-Neb.) but looked like him. The three of them sat at the far back table of the restaurant.
Another source, a Republican who was upset to see Collins dining with Emanuel, said the other man "could have been Rahm's brother." The source said he thought there was "something shady" about Collins dining with Emanuel.
This being Washington, some folks are downright frightened when they see Republicans and Democrats breaking bread. And they get suspicious.
"Maybe I'm just being a partisan," the GOP source said.
Turns out, the mystery man with Collins and Emanuel was none other than Carl Hulse, man about town and congressional correspondent for the New York Times. (Hulse is a regular dinner companion of Emanuel's; the two of them, along with Hulse's colleague Maureen Dowd were spotted a few weeks ago having dinner at Charlie Palmer Steak House on Capitol Hill, where someone at their table apparently sent a steak back to the kitchen because it had arrived at the table pre-sliced.)
Asked about last night's dinner at Central between Emanuel and Collins, Emanuel's spokeswoman, Sarah Feinberg, said it was "just a friendly dinner."
Sure, tell that to this town's jittery partisans.
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February 24, 2009; 6:05 PM ET
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Posted by: moonstream1 | February 24, 2009 9:54 PM | Report abuse
STIMULUS DEPRIVES CHILDREN/VETS/ADULTS HEALTHCARE SO WASH DC SLUGS CAN RE-DECORATE
HERE hr219 Hr 236 and VETS LOCKBOX LAW AND COLA WILL SUCCESSFULLY PROTECT SOC SEC AND MEDICARE AND MEDICAID (protects non-military too) and YET WASH DC SLUGS PREFER to TURN in an SOCIALIST healthcare which will let YOU NOT SOMEONE ELSE you/your child to DIE. how will this NATION silence the screams of people left to die. It's necessary legislation to OPPOSE STIMULUS NOW see Michelle Malkin Rutherford Institute, American Center for law and Justice, Campaign to Save SOC SEC and medicare (for non-military included) -A project of National Association of Uniformed Serv or googl HR 219, HR 236 AND retiresafe.org
Posted by: moonstream1 | February 24, 2009 9:56 PM | Report abuse
FOUNDING FATHERS NIGHTMARE--STIMULUS
Thomas Jefferson pretty well covered much about our situation today in two quotes made by him over 200 years ago. Our founders fathers feared what we are living today:
1. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
2. "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."*
I don"t think the presidenr's clueless. I think he knows EXACTLY what he is doing. HE was tutored by communists and making a career of destroying the productive for benefit to the leeches. No, he knows what he is doing, alright. STIMULUS deprives YOUR children/adult/vets of meds and leaves you to SILENCE the SCREAMS without meds rather than pass HR 219 AND 236 to protect SOC SEC for military and non-military and vets lockbox law and cola to protect medicare WITHOUT RAISING taxes, and WITHOUT cutting services.ggogle HR 219, HR 236 and retiresafe.org
Posted by: moonstream1 | February 24, 2009 9:57 PM | Report abuse
Wow. Nice to see the Republican hate machine still working. Apparently, partisan fantasies are the only manufacturing jobs that the Republicans left in tact.
Posted by: goaway41 | February 26, 2009 7:45 PM | Report abuse
Collins is taking a cloak room beating for her vote for the Obama stimulus package. Or, put another way, she is not on Mikey Steele's invitation list to the next GOP cocktail party on K Street. To her credit, and Olympia Snowe's, Maine's Senate delegation took the dire circumstances of the citizens back home into account before casting its votes on this bill.
It would be an educated guess but I would not be surprised if Emanual was giving Collins "his ear" to hear first hand, the best path to follow, to help the state of Maine get back on its feet...now that the bill has become law.
Posted by: dickhealy | February 26, 2009 8:17 PM | Report abuse
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DEMS MISLEAD PUBLIC TO CLAIM FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IS OUT
10 min after the press said DEMS SAID FAIRNESS DOCTRINE IS OUT... We FOUND OUT Obama NEVER CLOSED IT PER SE, Obama LEFT it WIDE OPEN for the WASH DC SLUG PARTY to REVIVE IT under another Name.
This time they want to the FCC TO REVIVE SHARIA LAW in order to squelch FREE SPEECH by having the FCC bamboozle the public to claim that ADVISORS AND BOARDS ARE NEEDED BY CLAIMING THAT THEY ARE NEEDED TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATORY WORDING. Because they think AMERICANS are too stipid to realize that SHARIA LAW says it's punishible by death to anyone whom claims that murders, rapes terrorist acitvities of SHARIA LAW /mislim/islam are "bad". go see michelle malkin or act for america.org