A number of bloggers on the left side of the blogosphere were upset with a possibility raised in Bob Novak's weekend column - the possibility that if the Democrats fail to win back the House this fall, Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) could be replaced by Rahm Emanuel (D-Chicago) as the leader of the Democrats in the House. Their outrage with the idea stemmed from the fact that this would supposedly be rewarding failure - how dare DC Democrats consider naming the guy charged with winning this fall's elections (since Emanuel heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) - if he doesn't win back the House he's failed to do his job and so he shouldn't be rewarded. To these critics of this idea (which, to my knowledge, is indeed being considered in some circles) I respond - are you high? Do you really think which party controls the US House really depends on who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That's an absurd notion. Emanuel could do a superb job (and by all accounts he's hugely talented and has been extremely aggressive in his leadership of the committee - for both good and ill) in his position, and the Democrats could still fail to win back the House in November for a host of reasons. Evaluate the merits of these people by how well they perform in the jobs they fill - not by outcomes that are in many ways beyond their control.
Posted by armand at June 6, 2006 09:40 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics