Rahm Slammed Dems Attacking Other Dems As “F–king Stupid,” Sources Say

[Me.]

Someone is stupid all right, as well as arrogant and a pretty sad strategist, but it isn’t progressive dems. And…if health care fails it will be the fault of Rahm and the blue dogs.

Rahm Slammed Dems Attacking Other Dems As “F–king Stupid,” Sources Say

“The Politico’s Jonathan Martin reported this morning that Rahm Emanuel warned leaders of liberal groups in a private meeting this week that it was time to stop running ads attacking Blue Dog and “centrist” Dems on health care.

I’m told, however, that Emanuel went quite a bit further than this.

Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them “f–king stupid.” This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.

Tellingly, Rahm raised the specter of a loss on health care, sources at the meeting say — which suggests that the White House may be less certain about victory than officials allow publicly.

“He started out with, `We’re 13 and 0 going into health care,’” one source at the meeting said, meaning that Rahm was touting the White House’s string of pre-health care legislative victories.

“This momentum is necessary to do all these other things. We have a lot of momentum right now, and any loss spoils that momentum that we’ve built up,” was how the source described the gist of what Rahm said. A Rahm spokesperson didn’t return an email for comment.

Said one attendee: “It was the Rahm show.”

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