I don't much care about
Rahm specifically, but I get a bit confused about the the tendency to write about the White House as if they're powerless to influence events. You can debate about the degree of their influence and certainly disagree about what the best strategies are, but the fact is that they had a plan for passing a health care reform bill, they thought that plan would work, and it didn't. At minimum, they were wrong about what was possible, but I don't think it's nuts to think they really fucked up.
