A parting gift
Rahm Emanuel's last day was today so the other staff members threw him a party.
From
ABC News:
A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.
This was an allusion to the Emanuel legend of his sending a dead fish to a pollster for whom he didn�t care, replicating the scene from The Godfather when the Corleones were alerted of Luca Brasi�s death with a dead fish wrapped in Brasi�s bullet-proof vest. The specific species was a reference to Emanuel�s focus as a member of Congress and White House chief of staff on the aggressive, invasive Asian carp, bane of the Great Lakes, a plankton-devouring creature heading towards Chicago.
Heh - and don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya.
Interesting to see a lot of the party faithful distancing themselves from Obama...
Posted by DaveH at October 1, 2010 7:56 PM