Rahm Out?

January 8, 2010 Bruce Bartlett

There’s been a lot of talk lately that Larry Summers and Tim Geithner are on their way out. I’ve previously said that I don’t see it and have no reason to change my mind. But I am starting to think that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is on his way out. It’s nothing specific, just a confluence of commentary that makes me think so. I can easily see Rahm leaving to run for mayor of Chicago. Whether Obama insider Valerie Jarrett replaces him is too soon to say.

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Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for Forbes.com, the online side of Forbes, the nation’s premier financial magazine.

He served for many years in prominent governmental positions including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Deputy Assistant Secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush Administration, and as a senior policy analyst in the White House for Ronald Reagan.

Bruce is the author of seven books, including the New York Times best-selling Impostor: How George W. Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, and thousands of articles in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Fortune and many others. He appears frequently on CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN and Fox News, and has been a guest on both the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report.

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