G.W.W.E.: Rahm “Enforce Me” Emanuel
(We’re back with another weekly installment of G.W.W.E. [Guys We Wanna Eff]. As Inauguration Week draws to a close, all we can think about is the newest effable White House employee, Rahm Emanuel.] I’ve had the pleasure to write a handful of College Candy’s Guys We Wanna Eff, and as a red-blooded twentysomething female it’s [...]

WE HEAR . . .
THAT incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has told local officials the new administration is not getting involved in New York's US Senate selection process, even though Caroline Kennedy's operatives have been telling people that...

Rahm Emanuel Is Your New Obama Hottie [Obama Hotties]
Amazing what people fetishize these days: Gray hair, dark circles under the eyes, average-at-best height, a missing middle finger? Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, beat conventionally gorgeous policy advisor Melody Barnesin our poll. There will likely be charges of voter fraud. Unthinkably, we omitted Barnes from the initial lineup, until commenter superannuated_grad_student pointed out our error. So we're granting her the title of Top Obama Hottie (Female) and Emanuel the title of Top Obama Hottie (Ma

Obama To Call For Responsibility, Service
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will call for a new era of responsibility in government.... More

Obama report clears Emanuel, other aides
Obama released a report Tuesday declaring that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had

Blago-Rahma: Emanuel had direct contacts with Blago on Senate opening
Ten days after Rod Blagojevich’s arrest on corruption charges, Rahm Emanuel’s sudden aversion to the press and cameras continues — and the Chicago Sun-Times may have the reason for his sudden allergy.  Sources tell Natasha Korecki that Emanuel had direct contact with the disgraced governor to discuss the replacement of Barack Obama in the Senate.  That would contradict claims that the incoming president’s Chief of Staff only had contact on a staff level with Governor Bl

DC's New Status Symbol
After months of careful negotiations, Obama finally gets to keep his BlackBerry, but only a few senior staffers and close friends will have access to it—making the elite group the toast of the town. "It's a pretty small group of people," spokesman Robert Gibbs said of the list. The obvious members of Club BlackBerry will likely include Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, body man Reggie Love, Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Michelle Obama (and maybe the kids as well). Various friends from Chicag

Aide: Democrat leader heard of Foley e-mails
• Report: A House Dem staffer says he sent Foley e-mails to media, DCCC in 2005 • Aide says DCCC chairman heard of e-mails in very general terms • DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel had said "no" when asked if he had known of them • Foley resigned after inappropriate messages to teenager became public

Bill Clinton's Big Release, Obama's Smaller Releases [News Roundup]
Bill Clinton's donor list for his foundation and presidential library have been released. Yeah, there's all kinds of foreign government money on there, what did you expect? [Politico]Meanwhile, Barack Obama has asked Congresswoman Hilda Solis to become the Secretary of Labor, former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk to head up the U.S. Trade Representatives Office and plans to send Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. [Washington Post, Washington Post, Washington Post] Obama's also defending th

POLITICS: OBAMA’S “MUSLIM FAITH” / MCCAIN TAKES 5-POINT LEAD / OBAMA RESPONDS TO NEW GOP AD / REPUBLICANS UPSET WITH OPRAH
Sen. Barack Obama said “my Muslim faith” while chatting with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” when he was criticizing the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim. But anti-Obama groups had sliced it out of context within an hour, and it began to spread like wildfire. Obama has stated repeatedly (and even launched a website to help spread the truth) that he has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim and is a committed Christian. McCain TAKES 5-POIN

The Week Wings Took Dream [Week In Review]
It was a week of sex, of scandal, of stepping down and stepping up. A week of drinking, a week of not sleeping. And a week, most of all, of changing.Bells were ringing and angels were singing and lots and lots of people were praying, because Barack Obama became our president! And look, he's bringing so many hotties with him to the White House. The hottest of all, as it turns out, is Rahm Emanuel. Until he stabs you.Potential Washington hottie Caroline Kennedy stared down her family history and said, bravely

Madonna Demands To Be Less Domineering [Gossip Roundup]
Everyone is trying calm down before the weekend. Courtenay Semel totally made up for setting Casey Johnson's head on fire. Madonna tried to not be a demanding, terrible ball-buster constantly.Madonna sought counseling to be "less domineering" in relationships. But it had to be at a Kabbalah center, in New York, with this one elite rabbi, and absolutely no one else in the room. The rabbi "tweak[ed] her tikkun," like he was some kind of Yankee. Then Madonna had to start riding horses so she could dominate som

Obama Goes to Work [Presidents]
President Barack Obamamade a phone call in the president's official office, before leaving to spend the rest of the day doing more "traditional" time-wasting nonsense.Poor Jeff Zeleny has been "liveblogging" Barack Obama's first full day as president. This is a punishment, because thus far he has spent the entire day at a "prayer breakfast," because of George Washington.Here is new press secretary Robert Gibbs explaining the schedule:At 8:35 AM, the President arrived in the Oval Office and spent 10 minutes

Blagojevich Weighs Legal Options With R. Kelly's Lawyer
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich met with a renowned Chicago criminal lawyer Saturday as he weighed his legal options on how to fight a scandal that has left his career in tatters and disrupted President-elect Barack Obama's White House transition.The Democratic governor had a four-hour meeting with Ed Genson in the lawyer's downtown office Saturday. Genson has defended newspaper baron Conrad Black, R&B singer R. Kelly and numerous public figures on corruption charges, earning a reputation as t

Rod Blago is Disgusted by "Sham" of Impeachment
Rod Blagojevich, that Illinois governor who made some very public uh-ohs whilst trying to sell Barack Obama's seat in the senate, was furious today at the gall of those of the Illinois House and Senate who are trying to impeach him. And now the "man" is trying to hit him with a new charge alleging that he's missed some stupid deadlines to turn in forms? How dare they.

Pelosi lays down the law with Rahm
In a recent conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel offered some advice on a Democratic House leadership race. Pelosi’s response, according to several Democratic sources: It is “an internal House Democratic Caucus matter, and we’ll handle it.” Democratic insiders say there’s no animosity between Pelosi and Emanuel, who’s leaving his post as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus to become the next White House chief of staff. But

Elsewhere: A Mandela Welcome for Obama
On Inauguration Day, Obama's roommate from college emerges with much praise and a few pictures that the new president is probably glad didn't get out earlier. In a letter delivered before the ceremony, Nelson Mandela told Obama he is the "new voice of hope." After collapsing at a luncheon, Ted Kennedy appears to be doing OK. Here was the scene in Times Square. And off went the Bushes to Texas. THE ClintonS WERE HAPPY. It might seem a bit undignified, but House members did the wave for Rahm Emanue

Obama: “Everybody’s Going to Have to Give”
Barack Obama finally came clean in an exclusive interview with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and “This Week” Host George Stephanopoulos that aired this morning. In a surprising display of honesty, Obama admitted that his campaign promises were just empty campaign rhetoric. Obama told Stephanopoulos that fixing the economy over the long term will require “sacrifice” from [...]

Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer (Politico)
During separate televised interviews last month, Pastor Rick Warren asked the two presidential candidates when a baby gets human rights. Obama replied that the question is “above my pay grade,” while John McCain won love from the right by saying quickly, “At the moment of conception.” Now, Obama tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview taped for “This Week”: “What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding

Team McCain Chooses Charles 'Softball' Gibson for First Sarah Palin TV Interview [Fail]
Well, the press can stop wondering when and where Sarah Palin's first post-nomination television interview will take place. A campaign adviser says they offered ABC nightly news anchor Charles Gibson the job days ago. That's the same Charles Gibson who was last seen being "greasily avuncular and patronizing" when he and his ABC cohort George Stephanopoulos were ruining the Democratic primary debate back in April. You know, the ABC-sponsored event about which a New Yorker scribe wrote, "Seldom has a large co

Oprah, Leno, Letterman: What's Palin to do next?
Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor. Oprah wants her. So do Letterman and Leno. The failed Republican vice presidential candidate crunched state budget numbers this past week in her 17th-floor office as tumbling oil prices hit Alaska's revenues. Her staff, meanwhile, fielded television requests seeking the 44-year-old Palin for late-night banter and Sunday morning

Oprah, Leno, Letterman: What's Sarah Palin To Do Next?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor. Oprah wants her. So do Letterman and Leno. The failed Republican vice presidential candidate crunched state budget numbers this past week in her 17th-floor office as tumbling oil prices hit Alaska's revenues. Her staff, meanwhile, fielded television requests seeking the 44-year-old Palin for late-n

ABC Panel Tears Into McCain: Not Presidential, Age Should Be An Issue
For John McCain, the panel discussion on This Week with George Stephanopoulos could not have been more brutal. Minutes after conservative columnist George Will declared that the Senator was decidedly un-presidential is his erratic call for the firing of SEC Chairman Chris Cox, Sam Donaldson, the long...Full Article @ huffington post Comment Share Email Post Your Comment say something interesting