Emmanuel is right...

Christy at Firedoglake has it wrong when she gets upset at Rahm Emmanuel:

Let me get this straight, we have just taken back the House and, looking more likely as of this morning, the Senate, and Rahm's first priority is to shore up his power base and his ties to KStreet. Heckuva job, Rahm.

The difference between Christy and Rahm is that Emmanuel has had his orgasm, smoked his cigarette, and is now thinking to 08, while Christy is still basking in the afterglow.

If you think getting to the point we're at now was ugly, just wait. Remember 1993, when the GOP was out of the White House for the first time in 16 years? Remember how the corporate media Kool Kidz turned on the Clintons? You've seen nothing yet. The Republican Congressional infrastructure can't be crushed. We reached the top of the hill, but there are still hordes of barbarians charging, looking to knock us back down.

When a football team in England gets promoted from the lower divisons to the Premier League (where the big-time money and players are), that team has to have a long-term plan for making money and getting top-level players. If they don't they'll be relegated back to the lower divisions after one season. Rahm's right in thinking ahead. Not only do we have to hold our positions in Congress in 2008, we need to make a full effort to regain the White House.

We're not going to accomplish these things from the left. There aren't enough George Soros types out there to finance the operation. There aren't enough outlets in the liberal media to back up a push from the left.

Ya know, they don't call it a "base" for nothing. It's a base, a foundation. You build upon it. If you stop at the foundation, you never build the structure. Rahm's building the structure, not merely basking in the afterglow.

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