Rahm Emanuel will be the next mayor of Chicago. It’s a thankless job, but it should render him basically irrelevant on the national stage. Of course, if Obama needs any dead people’s votes, I’m sure Rahm can take care of it. But it will be hard for him to continue to infect Jane Hamsher with brain-fever. He’s going to be the mayor of our third biggest city and I couldn’t care less. If Obama hadn’t tapped him to be his chief of staff, we’d be working to make Rahm the Speaker of the House right now. Think about it.