Countdown to Rahmageddon: Moseley Braun Fires Salvo

By Chuck Sudo in News on Nov 5, 2010 2:00PM

"All politics is local." So true. Yesterday, former Senator Carol Moseley Braun took the lemons of the Democrats sound defeat at the polls and turned it into lemonade. Braun accused Rahm Emanuel of "cut and ran" from the Obama Administration, leaving the President to take responsibility for Wednesday's election results.

Blaming Emanuel for "pushing policies that [led] to the biggest Democratic Party political loss in 27 years," adding, "If Rahm abandoned the president of the United States, what makes anybody think he'll stick by regular Chicagoans?"

Emanuel, who was in Hollywood last night for a fundraiser hosted by his brother Ari, issued a response through spokesman Dan LaBolt that disagreed with Braun. "(Emanuel) doesn't think that the President ushered in a 'debacle,' he thinks that preventing another Depression and passing health care and financial reform will help countless Americans."

According to Sun-Times Washington correspondent Lynn Sweet, Emanuel was only going to serve as White House Chief of Staff and leave after two years. But Richard Daley's shocking announcement he would not seek a seventh term hastened an early departure so that Emanuel could raise campaign funds.