I've never been a big fan of DCCC Chair Rahm Emanuel. However, after reading The legend of Rahm in Salon (sorry, you'll have to click through the ad if you're not a Salon subscriber) I have some new respect for the guy. A couple snippets from the Salon piece:

[Rahm] had once owned a consulting business devoted to finding skeletons in Republican closets. At a Clinton victory dinner in Little Rock in 1992, Emanuel celebrated by reciting a hoped-for necrology of Democrats who had "fucked" the president-elect. After every name, he stabbed a steak knife into a table and screamed, "Dead man!"

I also enjoyed his message to the Republicans after the Dems took back the House in '06:

On Election Night, 10 minutes after CNN called the House for the Democrats, Emanuel climbed up on a table in DCCC headquarters and addressed his cheering, victory-starved staff, celebrating the party's biggest win since 1992. He wanted to wrap up the campaign with a message for the Republicans.

"Since my kids are gone, I can say it," he shouted. "They can go fuck themselves!"

I like it.