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Hotheaded Rahm Emanuel may be White House voice of reason

Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He\'s the town\'s resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.
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March 2, 2010

From WashingtonPost.com:

Rahm Emanuel is officially a Washington caricature. He’s the town’s resident leviathan, a bullying, bruising White House chief of staff who is a prime target for the failings of the Obama administration.

But a contrarian narrative is emerging: Emanuel is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice on some of the most sensitive subjects of the year: health-care reform, jobs and trying alleged terrorists in civilian courts.

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