AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The immortal words of Rahm Emanuel , former disastrous mayor of Chicago, former U.S. congressman, and erstwhile Obama stooge, shortly after Obama was elected in 2008, speaking at a Wall Street Journal corporate CEO conference as the economic/financial crisis was unfolding.
While Republicans continue to view Emanuel’s admonition as confirmation of what they already knew — Democrat exploitation of every crisis that comes down the proverbial pike: mass shootings to push gun control, the pandemic to foist draconian rules and controls on the public, weather to push climate change, et al. — Democrats immediately rushed to Emanuel’s defenses, spinning the hell out his comments by insisting what he really meant was crises provide opportunities to enact legislation, […]
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