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Juanita had a run-in with Rahm Emanuel back when he was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and she saw him waste money right here in her own district like money grew on trees and he had the concession on fertilizer.

“Never liked him and always will,” she admits.  “He ran campaigns in my district from Washington, DeeCee, when he did not know the lay of the land and worked hard to hack off the locals.  To tell you the truth, Rahm walking into a campaign is the same as twelve good folks leaving.  A pickel barrel full of feather is more helpful than he is.”

“I think he wants to be Sam Rayburn.  But Mr. Sam used a dinner knife, not a sledgehammer.  Mr. Sam made friends, not enemies.”

“So, my heart does not break with the news that Rahm is leaving,” she says.  “The only problem I have is that he’s not leaving soon enough.  We need him gone to win the mid-terms.”

“I wish he’d cut the chain on the anchor and row away so fast that the friction makes the water in the Potomac boil.”  We think she means it literally.