Rahm's mess and his mayoral run

Rahm Emanuel was the architect of the 2006 and 2008 successful Democratic congressional efforts. But many of his progeny are looking for jobs now.

And Rahm had better things to do--such as run for mayor of Chicago. It looks like he got out of a modern Pompei before the volcano exploded.

And Team Obama is blaming Emanuel for Tuesday's debacle.

From the Daily Beast:

And his old colleagues in Washington aren't too happy about it. Some of them shake their heads in disbelief that Emanuel would bolt at precisely the juncture when the Democrats needed to shape their strategy and message during the homestretch of what everyone knew would be the toughest election cycle in years.

"It was Rahm who always said, 'We've just got to put points on the board,' and that"s why we have a transactional presidency," said one former colleague. "The only problem is that Obama is not a transactional politician. It was Rahm's strategy and then he leaves a month before the election for his own personal political career. It's extraordinary."

After a month of running for mayor of Chicago, Emanuel took the time on Tuesday to call some of the defeated candidates, whose political careers he helped launch as part of the Democratic takeover in 2006.

But the fact remains: four years later, his class of '06 is decimated and Emanuel has left Washington politics altogether.

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