On Friday night, President Barack Hussein Obama (Peace be upon him) went to the Washington Nationals game.  He wore a cap with the logo of  his hometown Chicago White Sox in support of the team.   According to sources, Obama sang “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and left in the ninth inning, before the White Sox edged out the Nationals 2-1 in the 11th.

Scooter had a busy day Saturday, also.    American President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) was playing golf with Vice President Joe Biden. 

The White House press pool reported that Obama left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base.  His golfing partners also included White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and David Katz, the energy efficiency campaign manager at the Department of Energy.

Obama stopped playing golf shortly before 6 p.m.

Nicholson and Katz, along with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, enjoyed four hours of golf with Obama just last weekend.

This was Obama’s 7th round of golf since the April 20th explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Americans did not hear much about it, except on Fox News, starting late Saturday afternoon.

However, all day long on Saturday, every cable news channel was telling the story over and over again about BP’s CEO Tony Hayward attending a glitzy yacht race in England. 

Per Robert Wine, a BP spokesman at the company’s Houston headquarters, it’s the first break Hayward has had since the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20th, which killed 11 workers and set off the undersea gusher that is still spilling oil into the gulf.

According to Wine:

He’s spending a few hours with his family at a weekend.  I’m sure that everyone would understand that.

Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, said that Hayward’s decision to go to the yacht race was “a public relations fiasco”.  Rahmbo told ABC’s “This Week,” that Hayward had “got his life back.”, a reference to a PR blunder of a statement that Hayward made a ahort while back.

Emmanuel also said:

I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting.

And going to baseball games and playing golf 7 times since the Gulf Oil Disaster started is a brilliant PR strategy?

News broke Sunday that Rahm Emmanuel is expected to leave his job later this year because he has grown tired of the “idealism” of  Obama’s inner circle.

The so-called “insiders” in DC say he will quit within six to eight months because he’s frustrated that Scooter’s team of professional academics won’t get “down and dirty” in order to get Obama’s agenda pushed through.

Rahmbo, 50, has a good working relationship with Scooter, but they have supposedly reached an “understanding” that their differences over style will lead to Emmanuel serving only half the full four-year term.

Rahmbo’s friends say he is also concerned about job burnout and becoming out of touch with his young family due to holding one of most high-profile jobs in US politics.

A leading Democratic consultant in Washington offers:

I would bet he will go after the midterms.  Nobody thinks it’s working but they can’t get rid of him – that would look awful. He needs the right sort of job to go to but the consensus is he’ll go.

An official from the Bill Clinton era proclaimed that “no one will be surprised” if Rahmbo left after the midterm elections in November.  Yeah. Especially if the Democrats lose their majorities in the House and Senate.

It is all over DC that arguments have developed between rough-and-tumble Rahmbo Emanuel, who was known in Congress for driving through compromises, and the idealistic inner circle (i.e., clueless academics) who followed Scooter to the White House.

His take-no-prisoners style has gotten on the nerves of some people.  And Obama’s closest advisers feel that he has not lived up to expectations in his role as the driver of the president’s legislative agenda.

A consultant, who wished to remain anonymous, said:

It might not be his fault, but the perception is there.  Every vote has been tough, from health care to energy to financial reform.

Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for George W Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm’s job.

Scooter and Rahmbo had a major spat over Obamacare, with Emanuel arguing that the administration should have produced a scaled down package, due to the public’s outcry about cost.  Obama and his advisers including David Axelrod, the chief strategist, and Valerie Jarrett, a businesswoman and mentor from Chicago, ignored him and pushed through the debacle known as Obamacare.

Emanuel has reportedly told friends that, because of its intensity,  his role as White House chief of staff was “only an eighteen month job” .

Rahm Emmanuel’s position is regarded as the most demanding after that of being the president.  It consists of driving the president’s agenda, keeping everyone in the administration on message, and being a liaison to Congress.

If Rahmbo jumps overboard from this sinking ship of state, his departure will be seen as proof that Obama’s presidency has been far more of a poorly written soap opera than his admirers thought it would be.

Rahmbo has privately said that he wants to run for mayor of  Chicago. The Windy City is also his home town, even though he was never part of the Obama “posse” and did not even endorse Barack Obama in the Democratic primary in 2008.

That could only happen if Mayor Richard Daley stepped down when he is up for re-election in 2011.

Rahmbo’s biggest concern when he originally took his present job was over moving his three children from Chicago.  According to another former Clinton official, he told his friends that he is “very sensitive to the idea that he is not a good father for having done this”.

Rahmbo is the son of Jewish immigrants and was an accomplished ballet dancer at school. He served in the Israeli Defense Force (and we know how much this administration just adores Israel, don’t we?) in the 1991 Gulf War.

Rahm Emmanuel’s tough guy political style seems to have made him a liability in the pseudo-intellectual Ivy League Political Academic Palace of the Regime.  The Capitol Hill Gymnasium shower room will never be the same.

Sources:  telegraph.co.uk, thehill.com, myway.com