Assessing Rahm

First Read: "As Rahm Emanuel today departs the White House to run for Chicago mayor, it's time to assess his nearly two year as chief of staff. On the one hand, he played a key role in the Democrats racking up more legislative achievements than Washington has seen since the Great Society or the New Deal. His half-a-loaf-is-better-than-no-loaf approach produced big results, even if those results weren't widely embraced by a public during a time of 10% unemployment. Rahm -- perhaps more than many pundits or chatterers in the blogosphere -- knows that politics is the art of the possible, that you take what you can get, and that enacting change is hard. Really hard."

GEORGE CASEY GEORGE H.W. BUSH GEORGE LEMIEUX GEORGE MITCHELL