Fascinating profile of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) in Sunday's Washington Post:
Asked if he ever has regrets about his hardball habits, Emanuel stares into his glass of tea for a long moment.It takes a Chicagoan to fight a Republican on their own turf.
"Look, you're never as tough as they say you are," he says finally.
But the self-reflection lasts only as long as it takes for him to remember the tactics of the other side.
"They call Tammy Duckworth a cut-and-runner when she left two legs in Iraq?" he shouts, jabbing a finger in the air, drawing stares from around the deli. "How dare they! I'm going to give them the medicine that they've been giving out. That's what shocks them."
