A preview of Coming Attractions

The thought that Obama may govern from the center took a hit as in his first move as President-elect, he has tabbed one of D.C.’s most notorious partisans to be his chief of staff.

"[T]he night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting “Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!” and plunging the knife into the table after every name. “When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape,” one campaign veteran recalls. “It was like something out of The Godfather. But that’s Rahm for you.”

Rahm… what a card.

H/T: Sweetness and Light