President Obama: Replace Rahm With Me

Dear President Obama,



I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of
staff.

I would like to humbly offer myself, yours truly, as his replacement.



I will come to D.C. and clean up the mess that's been created around you. I
will work for $1 a year. I will help the Dems on Capitol Hill find their
spines and I will teach them how to nonviolently beat the Republicans to a
pulp.

And I will help you get done what the American people sent you there to do.
I don't need much, just a cot in the White House basement will do.



Now, don't get too giddy with excitement over my offer, because you and I
are going to be up at 5 in the morning, 7 days a week and I am going to get
you pumped up for battle every single day . Each morning you and
I will do 100 jumping jacks and you will repeat after me:



"The American people elected me, not the Republicans, to run the country! I am in charge! I will order all obstructionists outta my way! If the American people don't like what I'm doing they can throw my ass out in 2012. In the meantime, I call the shots on their behalf! Now, Congress, drop and give me 50!!"


Then we will put on our jogging sweats and run up to Capitol Hill. We will
take names, kick butts, and then take some more names. If we have to give a
few noogies or half-nelson's, then so be it. In our pockets we will have a
piece of paper to show the pansy Dems just how much they won by in 2008 --
and the poll results that show the majority of Americans oppose the
Afghanistan and Iraq wars and want the bankers punished. Like drill
sergeants, we will get right up in their faces and ask them, "What part of the public mandate don't you understand, soldier?!! Drop and give me 50!"

I know this is the job Rahm Emanuel was supposed to be doing.



Now, don't get me wrong. I have always admired Rahm Emanuel (if you don't
count his getting NAFTA pushed through Congress in the '90s which destroyed
towns like Flint, Michigan. I know, picky-picky.). He is what we needed for
a long time -- a no-apologies, take-no-prisoners fighting machine. Someone
who is not afraid to get his hands dirty and pound the right wing into
submission. Far from being the foul-mouthed bully he has been portrayed as,
Rahm is the one who BEAT UP the bullies to protect us from them.

That's certainly what he did in 2006. After six long, miserable years of the
middle-class getting slaughtered and the poor being flushed down the toilet,
Rahm Emanuel took on the job of returning Congress to the Democrats. No one
believed it could be done.

But he did it. Big time. He put the fear of God into the party of Rush and
Newt. They had never been so scared. More importantly, though, he instilled
a sense of hope in the Democrats that they could actually score the mother
of all hat tricks in 2008 -- and with you, an African American no less, in
the pole position!

It worked. The Darkness ended. The vast majority of nation wept with joy on
the night of the election (those who weren't weeping went out and bought a
record number of guns and ammo). Unlike the last president, you didn't "win"
by 537 votes in Florida (although Gore won the popular vote by a
half-million), you beat McCain nationally by 9,522,083 votes! The House
Democrats got a walloping 79-vote margin. The Senate Dems would caucus with
a supermajority of 60 votes unheard of in over 30 years. The wars would now
end. America would have universal health care. Wall Street and the banks
would, at the very least, be reined in. Hardworking citizens would not be
thrown out of their homes. It was supposed to be the dawning of a new age.



But the Republicans were not going to go quietly into the night. You see,
instead of having just one Rahm Emanuel, they are ALL Rahm Emanuels. That's
why they usually win. Unlike most Democrats, they are relentless and
unstoppable. When they believe in something (which is usually themselves and
the K Street job they hope to be rewarded with someday), they'll fight for
it till the death. They are loyal to a fault to each other (they were never
able to denounce Bush, even though they knew he was destroying the party).
They dig their heels in deep no matter what. If you exiled them to a lone
chunk of melting polar ice cap, they would keep insisting that it was just a
normal "January thaw," even as the frigid Arctic waters rose above their
God-fearing necks ("See what I mean -- this water is COLD! What 'global
*warming*'?! Adam and Eve rode dinos...aagghh!!... gulp gulp gulp").

We thought we were all done with this craziness, but we were mistaken. Like
a beast that you just can't cage, the Republicans convinced not only the
media, but YOU and your fellow Dems, that 59 votes was a *minority*!
Precious time was lost trying to reach a "consensus" and trying to be
"bipartisan."



Well, you and the Democrats have been in charge now for over a year and not
one banking regulation has been reinstated. We don't have universal health
care. The war in Afghanistan has escalated. And tens of thousands of
Americans continue to lose their jobs and be thrown out of their homes. For
most of us, it's just simply no longer good enough that Bush is gone. Woo
hoo. Bush is gone. Yippee. That hasn't created one new friggin' job.

You're such a good guy, Mr. President. You came to Washington with your hand
extended to the Republicans and they just chopped it off. You wanted to be
respectful and they decided that they were going to say "no" to everything
you suggested. Yet, you kept on saying you still believed in bipartisanship.



Well, if you really want bipartisanship, just go ahead and let the
Republicans win in November. Then you'll get all the bipartisanship you
want.

Let me be clear about one thing: The Democrats on Election Day 2010 are
going to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions if things don't change
right now. And after the new Republican majority takes over, they, along
with a few conservative Democrats in Congress, will get to bipartisanly
impeach you for being a socialist and a citizen of Kenya. How nice to see
both sides of the aisle working together again!

And the brief window we had to fix this country will be gone.

Gone.

Gone, baby, gone.

I don't know what your team has been up to, but they haven't served you
well. And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter -- not of Republicans,
but of the left. He called those of us who want universal health care
"f***ing retarded." Look, I don't know if Rahm is the problem or if it's
Gibbs or Axelrod or any of the other great people we owe a debt of thanks to
for getting you elected. All I know is that whatever is fueling your White
House it's now running on fumes. Time to shake things up! Time to bring me
in to get you pumped up every morning! Go Barack! Yay Obama! Fight, Team,
Fight!



I'm packed and ready to come to D.C. tomorrow. If it helps, you won't really
be losing Rahm entirely because I'll be bringing his brother with me -- my
agent, Ari Emanuel. Man, you should see HIM negotiate a deal! Have you ever
wanted to see Mitch McConnell walking around Capitol Hill carrying his own
head in his hands after it's just been handed to him by the infamous Ari?
Oh, baby, it won't be pretty -- but boy will it be sweet!

What say you, Barack? Me and you against the world! Yes we can! It'll be fun
-- and we may just get something done. Whaddaya got to lose? Hope?

Retardedly yours,


Michael Moore

MMFlint@aol.com

MichaelMoore.com



P.S. Just to give you an idea of the new style I'll be bringing with me,
when a cornhole like Sen. Ben Nelson tries to hold you up next time, this is
what I will tell him in order to get his vote: "You've got exactly 30
seconds to rescind your demand or I will personally make sure that Nebraska
doesn't get one more federal dollar for the rest of Obama's term. And then I
will let everyone in your state know that you wear Sooner panties,
backwards. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME 50!"