Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, has recently let it be known he will shortly resign his post and return to Chicago in order to spend more time with his family. Of course he does. Of course it’s his idea. I have no doubt Rahm Emanuel has a lovely wife and kids, and that he would like to spend more time with them than his demanding job permits, but the question is, why is Obama firing him? Is there something in the Blago tapes we do not yet know? I suspect we’ll find out. It’s a cruel world. Years of slavish devotion mean nothing when you are deemed no longer useful.  

Poor poor Rahm has had his day

His style now out of fashion

Bought by The One then thrown away

To a convenient trash bin

Rahm may claim that it’s his call

But all of us know better

With gun to head he’ll take the fall

By resignation letter

It’s all his fault it’s come apart

This hope and changey promise

Just fizzled out right from the start

Another lefty bomb miss

And so somebody has to pay

For screwing up Obama

And Rahm’s the guy sent on his way

Back home to kids and momma