He works for you. You don't plead with someone who freaking works for you.
Politics has a way of knocking trains off their tracks. In May, with Democrats realizing they could well lose their majority in the House, the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina pushed for repeal with new urgency.Not to mention, where was the President? Why send Rahm and Messina?
"For weeks, they tried to get Gates to understand that the political realities of life had changed," said a source with direct knowledge of the talks, who, like others interviewed, insisted upon anonymity to relay private conversations.
(This is from an article with lots of gems that I'll be writing about throughout the day.)
