Digby writes:

[E]ither Rahm is a brilliant legislative strategist, in which case he didn't bother to use his great powers to pass health care reform for reasons we can only speculate about, given the stakes --- or his reputation for brilliance is extremely overrated.

(Emphasis supplied.) It's the latter. What Rahmbo is actually brilliant at is self promotion. Always has been and always will be. Consider the sell job Rahmbo did about the 2006 elections. To hear Rahmbo and his Village mouthpieces tell it, Rahmbo engineered the big Dem win. The reality is Rahmbo almost blew the 2006 election by his refusal to focus on Iraq until it was obvious to anyone that that was the way to go. Rahmbo wanted to run a "culture of corruption" campaign. After the big win in 2006, Rahmbo got in front of the parade and pretended running on Iraq was his idea. It wasn't. He was against it.

Speaking for me only