AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, right, with WH chief of staff Bill Daley and President Barack Obama (AP)
Obama’s new (sort of) chief of staff, Bill Daley, sat down with Politico for an exclusive interview. And boy did he deliver. The political veteran didn‘t hold back when talking about Obama’s first three years, the deplorable poll numbers, and especially Obama’s plans to circumvent Congress.
For starters, when it comes to the first three years of Obama’s presidency, Daley called the period “brutal” and “ungodly.”
“It’s been a brutal three years,” he explained. “It’s been a very, very difficult three years, an incredible three years. And we are doing all this under the overhang of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. F—k! It wasn’t like all this was happening in good times.”
There’s more.



