Very interesting read: Rahm's role in turning Congress Blue Dog [View all]

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(While chairing) the D.C.C.C., Emanuel aggressively recruited right-leaning candidates, frequently military veterans, including former Republicans...

Some Democrats now argue that, in the long run, 2006 might have weakened the Party more than it strengthened it. "Rahm’s recruitment strategy" was "catastrophic," the retired record executive Howie Klein, who helps run a political action committee that funds liberal congressional challengers, said, and it contributed to the massive G.O.P. majorities we have now, the biggest since the nineteen-twenties.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-sudden-but-well-deserved-fall-of-rahm-emanuel?mbid=rss