{"id":318692,"date":"2021-09-20T08:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=214783"},"modified":"2021-09-20T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T08:58:47","slug":"why-lindsey-graham-is-trying-to-rescue-rahm-emanuel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/20\/why-lindsey-graham-is-trying-to-rescue-rahm-emanuel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lindsey Graham is Trying to Rescue Rahm Emanuel\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time Rahm Emanuel has turned to Republicans for rescue. The GOP rescued him in 1993,\u00a0when he was a key White House aide, as the Clinton administration rammed the NAFTA trade pact though Congress. Most Democrats in Congress \u2013 responding to the base of the party, including union and environmental activists \u2013\u00a0voted no\u00a0on NAFTA.\u00a0Years later, Emanuel was still\u00a0bragging about his role\u00a0in NAFTA\u2019s passage.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/20\/why-lindsey-graham-is-trying-to-rescue-rahm-emanuel\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/20\/why-lindsey-graham-is-trying-to-rescue-rahm-emanuel\/\">Why Lindsey Graham is Trying to Rescue Rahm Emanuel\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/20\/why-lindsey-graham-is-trying-to-rescue-rahm-emanuel\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time Rahm Emanuel has turned to Republicans for rescue. The GOP rescued him in 1993,\u00a0when he was a key White House aide, as the Clinton administration rammed the NAFTA trade pact though Congress. Most Democrats in Congress \u2013 respo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318844,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318692\/revisions\/318844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}