Tough Guy?

by digby

If this is true, the man really is worthless:

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel vehemently opposed Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to put alleged September 11 plotters on trial in a civilian court, according to a new account from the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer.

“Rahm felt very, very strongly that it was a mistake to prosecute the 9/11 people in the federal courts, and that it was picking an unnecessary fight with the military-commission people,” Mayer quoted an “informed source” as saying.

The New Yorker story says Emanuel’s opposition was driven in part by concerns that the decision would alienate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

This is from Jane Mayer who is very credible, so I tend to believe it. The idea that Lindsay graham can be appeased by anything, much less by this is so absurd that I can only assume that rahm was using this as an excuse. it simply defies reason that he thinks Graham xcan be counted on. He has always been a perfidious little creep. He likes to see himself as a “maverick” but everyone should have long ago realized that Republican mavericks always use their “maverickyiness” to screw Democrats. That’s the role they’ve been assigned.

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