In a September 29 BigJournalism.com blog post about the rumors White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel is considering leaving his post to run for mayor of Chicago, the website referred to Emanuel as a “rat” who is “leaving a sinking ship”:
Rahm “the Ballerina” Emanuel may announce that he's abandoning the foundering hulk of the S.S. Obama Administration to go back to the criminal racket known as Chicago Democratic politics.
[...]
By sheer coincidence, Emanuel's partner in the Obama brain trust, David Axelrod, recently announced that he, too, is returning to Chicago.
Considering Obama's poll numbers -- as well as those of Axelrod's warmup act, Mass. Gov. “Cadillac” Deval Patrick...
... maybe it's no wonder.
