rahm emmanuel

i dont know that much yet, but from what i read about him in rolling stone, i like. a hard-nosed pragmatic former clintonite with a penchant for getting things done and taking no prisoners, whose political ideology seems well matched with Obama's...seems good to me. plus, who doesn't like this kickass anecdote:

The 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."

Awesome.