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there's a new book arab idyllic and of the new york times is called a whole
bombers
uh... a lot of it is spent on michelle obama the first lady
uh... but this is not trivial stuff this is very very important stuff in terms of
who is influencing the president in which direction and we find out some
very import material here first of all there's a standard stuff about all the
first lady one day
according to her opponents in the white house want to spend too much money on
clothes redecorating the white house
the kind of nonsense charges you hear from time to time
against first ladies
when other people inside the west wing oppose them
but when they want to minimize the present i a retired today as you like
and spend a lot right
now at whether that's true or not there's a different question apparently
one of the guys wasn't a hatchet job on her was robert gibbs
he was a guy who would
dole and speaker of the first lady everyone's lobby like you can't do that
you can do this
acted out of the grain of salt knowing
which direction michelle obama was pushing
and this is that if you just read
for a long time
what is the first lady think what is your council president
it turns out
she's the progressive inside the white house
and other thank god ok alright now we're getting somewhere
and it turns out her main opponent was
rahm emanuel
the fact that she is opposed the rahm emanuel verity river itself but it made
me think
the first ladies on the right side
and that's a great thing
so then when you get into the flights involve the it is situation becomes
all lot more clear
the first lady push present on bomber
to do about speech on immigration
and he did it was uh... you know saying we need to do immigration reform she
pushed him in that direction
because
uh... of his campaign promises
and uh... vision that he laid out during the campaign
emmanuel was against that this is an optimized applauded new immigration
reform that's never going to pass a waste of time campaign promises who
cares right
uh... well-preserved body started his speech anyway listen the council was
white
uh... but it turns out the rest of the staff didn't basically
given the support of the needed on that speech so later on he is described as
being quietly furious about that
began with president obama this mountain of at least the third time
that we've heard about
how the president's angry people inside the white house look what does he do
about now
why'd you brother manual eventually got ok leftist chief-of-staff maybe that
something new with it but at the time president obama just fumed and didn't do
anything about it it by the president
and i'm gonna go do this comprehensive speech
you don't back it up and that's why the weight the reason you probably never
even heard about the speech
well i'd be more than just a little angry did have to be repertoire actions
bumpy this is not attribute job besides some
thing we'd get personal feelings involved with the present the united
states most powerful man on earth
if yes yes i do what you tell me do that dot gov
okay
so that's point number one point ever to
uh... when uh... uh... they were
that discussing energy of legislation
they wanted the deal with herbs and alan ward who's a democrat from north florida
he's uh... blue dog democrat
and he was kicked out you know reluctant to give a vote that you know
for cap and trade an energy doesn't want to do that
he just want to get the corporate money and be able to get reelected well it
turns out
that ron then you made a deal to get his vote
said the first lady
to do campaign at stop for basically in florida
and they take a picture together except
didn't tell the first lady of his word it's interesting
is that all by the way uh... void is gonna run against an african-american in
a primary
that guy in the primary is agony more progressive than him
and is everywhere
so that's why they need the first lady
you know to go out there
*** you know give muhamed basically
but they didn't television set out to see how we trading that
energy bro
look sundays you got a new uh...
you know horse parida horse-trading
those bargains that are uncomfortable as playing hardball high debt that right
plate you got a letter no which they
and if she makes a decision ham radio and do that that's fine but not letting
her know an ngo after she finds activation i didn't have court
by the way yes they got his vote on that part of a crucial part of the health
care about
the voter id n seven anyway
later he border for the final package
but that what he heard a battle in a crucial vote that they need it
this is a blue dog was that i was in that anyway
at nature of the first lady into campaigning for me is that i think i
think
irony in the morning these guys anyway
now novelist important point here
on the issue of the health care reform
patli the first lady who want to push for more comprehensive health care
overall
of course rahm emanuel did not
in fact after scott brown got elected in massachusetts and they no longer sixty
votes
apparently run the manual one of the pollution entirely
as it out out out there for motor vehicles move on
those are on the menu ellipse
so you were going to give up
what i think that these legislation was incredibly weak to begin with
but you wouldn't do that which is going to give up
how much do you stop it politics
meanwhile is it all long there's no question that this health care bills in
the past
the question is what floor is that going to be
and on that issue
that in order to get the first ladies on the right side
if she says
left there's no reason to scale back these efforts and uh...
the president should not be cutting these
deals behind the scene
with uh... the healthcare industry
she says it goes against what he's been argue for all along
and it's not the right way to handle this n
again she was right
anne who want to do the horse-trading on those is secret
uh... deals with industry of course
rahm emanuel
it was totally his doing to god i hope it was a president now that you know you
principles again about principle let's not all of our principles unstoppable
absinthe lasalle of
all those things to go strike a deal with the health care industry ok all the
different issues that are involved
and that
after make compromises so many things that was so what do i think what
abandoned anyway because he doesn't know what day thing about politics
says that pat
now here's two interesting note from the book
one quote
more fundamentally the chief-of-staff which try to convince the president to
scale back his health care efforts
but the first lady one of the push forward
so there it is in black and white
no question one menu on the wrong side
the first lady on the right side both policy-wise
and politics wants and then secondly
in their emmanuel water win by the standard measures of presidential
success
legislative victories poll numbers
michelle obama had uh... more
per soccer took criteria
was our husband put the link their mission
but off course that's the right criteria what's the point of having a slightly
better poll number which finally so shortsighted those poll numbers don't
laugh
if they get that public in the long run gets the sense that you're full of it
and which prepared at the exactly the case utilities like water
let's victory
by financial reform was so long we
you think you check that american people
they get it was weak
that nobody thinks that all bomb is a big fighter against the banks
that's because he was the robin that you are they got
and it is so little that i don't wanna be's all the president of wrongdoing
here ok ultimately of course is charged with all those is that decision maker
in their jobs like a to make decisions
so that you make a decision you should
choose rahm emanuel over other apparently the correct advice
of your wife and whoever else happens in the white house if anybody else was
progressive inside-out white house
well then you made the wrong decision
now it looks like they're china
change course rahm emanuel is gone
bill bailey who might have made even worse the rahm emanuel
poses next year is that
has out today
uh... you know left the white house he's gone
down though at least on the campaign trail present no bomb ascending a lot
more progressive
they won't forward let's hope it was the first lady a lot more
is apparently we found the one progressive inside the white house