This is basically Rahm saying on his way out, I was right all along and these guys were wrong. Maybe it's a last minute attempt at a Hail Mary to swing the decision in his favor if he can start a conversation in DC about how he had offered better advice than the other three to Obama (by the way, everything he claims to have been right about inside the article was disastrous advice that led Obama further and further away from his voters). But either way, that means he thinks he is very close to being on his way out the door.
If anything can be said of Barack Obama, it's that no one is so indispensable to him that he won't gladly feed that person to the sharks in order to save his political ambitions. This was evident in his vicious attacks on Jeremiah Wright during the campaign, and in his dismissal from the White House any and all of the few progressives in it. That Emanuel, perhaps the most powerful mouth blabbing in Obama's ear to shunt aside the Democratic base in favor of large business interests, is expendable is indicative of just how worried the chief executive is about his prospects for re-election and his party's all-but-nonexistent control over Congress.
So perhaps Emanuel is finally on his way out, as he should be. But if he is, he certainly should not be the last to go. All of Team Obama must be replaced with genuine progressives, people from among the base of the party that put him in office. If they don't, then all Emanuel's departure from the White House will be is more window dressing on a crumbling house.
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