Rahm Emanuel: A War Time Consigliere?
There is a great scene in the second season of the West Wing where White House Chief of Staff, Leo McGarry (played by John Spencer), and White House Director of Communications Director, Toby Ziegler (played by Richard Schiff), are sitting in the Oval office after Toby got politically beat by the new chief of staff of the Republican Speaker of the House, Ann Stark. It goes like this:
Toby: We have got to get real now. Leo, Ann Stark is a war time consigliere that is why she was bumped up.
Leo: I am war time consigliere too, Toby. I was just hoping it would be peace time a little longer.
I am not sure if there was anyone who did not think that Rahm Emanuel was going to be President Obama’s Leo McGarry but as the Washington Post has recently reported, we have seen a completely different tact taken by Mr. Emanuel.