Why don´t you do the job you were (illegally) elected to do? You have one of the highest murder rates and you are posturing for national attention. Clean up your corrupt and dangerous city or resign you jerk!

So, Pretty Boy Floyd thinks we should crack down on crime.

Hey Twinkles, we´re smooth out of money. The ´Rats want to rebuild America with baling wire and duct tape. It ain´t gonna work out so well in the long run.

no one in his right mind would take anything this man has to say seriously. unfortunately, we have a majority of people in this once great country who will not only listen to him but think he´s a genius.
my opinion: shut up and go away.

If, by "our ideas", Rahm means lies, misdirection, ugly vilification, coercion, theft and, most importantly, hatred, I have to agree.

The trouble is that his party´s constituency is incapable of rebuilding anything. They are only capable of destruction.
WHO IS JOHN GAULT?

Dirtbags like Rahm don´t build, they steal.

"do as I say, not as I do"!

What an insulting joke from Obama´s own ´Mini Me´. The ethnomarxist template they have in mind for a new world created by them (I thought the Obamessiah created the world the first time, though?) is contrary to everything that is essentially and uniquely American. And disconnecting success from effort and merit is simply unjust.

If these Alinskian idealists think they´re going to jam their ethnomarxist vision of a new America down our throats, we´ll turn around and Rahm it up their tailpipes. A Leftist drive for a New America will either fail right away or touch of a New American Revolution.

Well, he´d correctly triangulated that they´ve got the most out of identity politics that they´re going to get given the coming end of the perfect tool for that - Obama and that the issue for 2016 will be if there is an economy to take credit for and, if not, can he be considered to fix it.

Emanuel has a chance and the GOP should be paying attention so it will, you know, have a communication strategy other than "Not Obama." I just don´t have the stomach to even read what he´s got to say.

And what Mr. Fancy Pants means by "rebuild" is more $$$ in the hog-trough pipeline for him to steal.

More democratic jibberish - none of this has a chance of working. We are getting poorer and poorer in this nation.

And then you´ll loot it again, after we do all the work?

"because of our ideas." Because of your ideas only the uninformed, low intelligence, people buy your crap. Look at the situation in the black community...they´ve been buying ´your ideas´ for years, what has it got them...poorness, enslaved in welfare, crime, illegitimacy, and hip-hop. Whoopie!

14 people actually READ this???

Before I read the article I had the same reaction as all of the posters here. Then I read the article and realized we conservatives are in big, deep trouble.

I was reacting to what I know of Rahm Emanuel and the Dems.

But the article sounds great and people will (and have) swallow(ed) it hook, line and sinker. They believe what they read without thinking critically about it, or seeing what is unwritten.

The real dilemma is how do we combat the very compelling message of the article, not just react to the messenger. If we can´t figure that out, we really are sunk.

Democrats won not because of their ideas but because of the criminal acts and activity which they have perfected. As long as half of America remains stupid, democrats will thrive.

Rahm is going to run for the WH in 2016.

He´s part of the problem; never part of the solution!

This is like life boat survivors, adrift after their ship sank- "Hey, I have a great idea! Let´s rebuild the ship!"

What an idiot!

Reading that produced a good laugh. But allow me to translate the message. His buddy just got re-elected Chief Deck Chair Arranger on the Titanic. He knows Democrats can´t continue to blame Republicans for everything that goes wrong. At most he can only claim to want good things for his city and country.

There is only one problem. This country cannot hope to raise taxes and/or cut spending enough to prevent the economic Armageddon that is in our future. I predict we will reach this Armageddon before we reach the mid-term elections. Obama won the popularity contest but he just inherited a future filled with chaos.

How cynical. How Democrat. First we destroy everything good, productive, and decent; then we re-build in our image with the rotting putrifaction that is left.

Remember there´s another election in 2 years for 30+ Senators and the entire House.

Republicans need to focus on 1 item - fiscal responsibility.

The House has proposed and voted on a budget, now they should wait for the Senate Democrats and Obama to propose theirs.

THEN, start to negotiate.

Put the onous onto the Democrats who pushed everything until after the election, which is now.

Give the Dems those top 2 tax bracket increases.
Forget about trying to close loopholes and saving the Democrats from themselves and making hard choices.

The EPA attacks on Coal, oil and natural gasoline? They affect local communities, counties and state tax revenues - USE that against the Democrats.

The article is filled with unsupported claims and Democrat Party jibberish. It is heartening to know that Chicago has relied on the private sector to fix all the problems in the Chicago schools. Now all the children attend school, learn to read and develop critical thinking skills, and actually graduate. Wow! It is hard to believe.

Rahm must be a true wizard cut from the mold of Barack Obama. How did we ever get by without these two Bobbsey twins to show us the way?

The only way Obama, and Emmanuel, can make this deal work is to have major tax increases. Spending will never go down. So we must expect to return to the days of a 70% marginal tax rate for individuals and trusts, 48% for corporations, without the tax laws in effect before 1981.

The big step will come when Obama decides to integrate Social Security with private retirement plans and investments. This means people with IRAs, 401(k) plans, company retirement plans, plus private wealth will see their Social Security reduced or eliminated. Just wait awhile. The day will come.

I agree. Let´s start with 50 separate states deciding independently how they would like to group together to form new countries.

Rebuild America? With what? And what is the plan that outlines how this rebuilding is supposed to proceed?

The only proctical way to achieve Rahm Emanuel´s vision is to isolate large numbers of "undesirables" either into some kind of internal exile, keeping them away from the serious business of transformation of what was once "America" into something else, or to round them up in preparation for a more "permanent" solution.

It worked for Stalin and Pol Pot, and in large part, for the early years of Mao.

It can´t happen here? Well, pretty much unchecked at the moment, it IS happening here.

But, Mitt Romney was the electable one...

Lets see, it would seem that the places run by democrats are the places that have the biggest problems, just look at New York and the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, they still don´t seem to have it figured out. The cities of Detroit, having to bulldoze their blighted areas and other places that have problems. The places run by republicans seem to get their act together and clean things up, just look at the middle of the country, the area that most leftists just fly over, when there are floods, the waters recede and things get cleaned up, tornados same thing, people clean them up. But Rahm Emanuel saying it´s time to rebuild America, give me a break, he couldn´t rebuild with instructions.

He and his ilk shredded the country to gain votes. Now they want to put them back together?

Humpty Dumpty etc etc....all the horses and all the King´s men could not put ......together again".

Typical WAPO continues to promote and support Obama thugs. Speaking of thugs, how is the crime rate in Chicago these days Rahmbo?

The only reason Rahm Emanuel´s Chicago hasn´t turned into a more homicide-riddled version of Detroit is that Obama´s most economically destructive policies -- ObamaCare and raising taxes on the wealthy -- haven´t gone into effect yet.

Unlike many Republican governors who have stated they will not comply with ObamaCare´s expensive mandate rules, Illinois´ Democratic governor is expected to go full speed ahead with allowing Illinois businesses to be crushed by ObamaCare. How will Chicago fare with its businesses leaving even more urgently than usual for greener pastures?

We know takers never build anything. They just take, take, take.

Back to the bathhouse, Twinkletoes. You´re side "won." You own it now. Every bit of it.

Dear Rohm,

We have been sending money to Chicago for decades - but your infrastructure is crumbling and your schools are gang clubhouses.

AMF-YoYo

The American Taxpayers

Fool.
The trillions could have rebuilt America.
Instead, it re-elected Obama and his posse, including this idiot.

Rahm writing about building up American carries all the credibility of a Muslim suicide bomber writing about how to live a long and quiet life in service to the Zionist cause.

The only way to prove that Democrats are wrong is too keep electing them until this country is completely bankrupt, the dollar worth nothing, private business destroyed and a wasteland of poverty from sea to shining sea. The we can say see.... we told you so.

Rahm should have a cell next to Former Governor Blogovich. If we had any real prosecutors and a media he would be there already.

Build it yourself, jerk!
Who is JG.

Rebuild Chicago, Rahm. Then we´´ll talk.

Huh! He´s awfully proud of what he sees as today´s Chicago.... Soon he will realize phony marxist dream speels only work when there isnt´t measurable results that show their disastrous failure. And your fabulous school program is graduating what % of students? Go away.