This morning we learned that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told liberal interest groups to stop targeting moderate House and Senate Democrats.  Apparently, Emanuel became very fired-up and made it clear the Administration was not pleased with their attacks.

 

Greg Sargent reports:

 

Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them “f–king stupid.” This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.

 

Emanuel also indicated the White House is very concerned about losing the healthcare debate.

 

“He started out with, `We’re 13 and 0 going into health care,’” one source at the meeting said, meaning that Rahm was touting the White House’s string of pre-health care legislative victories.

 

“This momentum is necessary to do all these other things. We have a lot of momentum right now, and any loss spoils that momentum that we’ve built up,” was how the source described the gist of what Rahm said.