Irish Central: Good riddance to Rahm Emanuel - blocked immigration reform in White House

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http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/good-riddance-to-rahm-emanuel---blocked-immigration-reform-in-white-house-104054064.html

On a number of levels Emanuel was a grave disappointment.

He was particularly so on issues such as immigration where his overly cautious approach meant that no bill was every formulated to bring about immigration reform and Obama was never out front on the issue.

He misled the Hispanic and indeed Irish lobby continuously on that issue causing a very irate Congressman Luis Gutierrez (chair on the Immigration Task Force and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus) to proclaim Emanuel to be the biggest snake he had encountered around Washington in his time there—and that is saying something.

Even on health care, Obama’s signature issue, he was the one ready to settle for far less than what Obama eventually succeeded in winning.