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Sometimes Ruthlessness is a Good Thing

Bulletins by Gretchen on Saturday 12 May 2007 at 3:22 pm

A fun Salon analysis by a Chicago reporter about how downtrodden 2002 Democrats learned ruthlessness from Illinois Democrats that they used to take back the House and Senate in 2006. It’s based on the book, The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. An excerpt: “As it turned out, Emanuel was just the kind of shameless asshole the Democrats needed to win back power.”

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