Source: New York Daily News
A leading Democratic consultant claims that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is tired of sparring with both Republicans and fellow Democrats and will quit in the next six to eight months.
“I would bet he will go after the midterms,” The London Telegraph quotes the Democratic consultant as saying.
“Nobody thinks it’s working but they can’t get rid of him - that would look awful. He needs the right sort of job to go but the consensus is he’ll go.”
Emanuel, 50, has been one of the most prominent faces of the Obama administration and a lightning rod for critics.
This year he battled Republicans on health care reform, watched the President’s approval ratings plunge, and found himself embroiled in controversy when the Wall Street Journal reported that he had called a liberal group ‘retarded’ in a closed-door meeting, prompting Sarah Palin and other conservatives to call for his resignation.
Emanuel, who has openly admitted he didn’t want the chief of staff job when it was first offered to him, said in a March interview with 60 Minutes, “It’s seven days a week, constant. And even at night, you’re never really calm sleeping. No matter how exhausted, you’re not calm. You’re never kinda off.”
The father of three also told 60 Minutes that the job is
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