Rahm

Rahm Emanuel--what a great name!--is to be the enforcer at the Oval Office doors, Barack Obama's Bobby Kennedy, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, junkyard dog. Cross him at your peril. He is from Chicago. As a young aide in the Clinton White House he angered so many people ( "I swear a lot," he says) that Hillary tried to have him fired--but even she couldn't pull that off: he stayed and rose in the ranks.

His father is a doctor born in Jerusalem, as a young man Rahm studied ballet and was so promising he was offered a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet, which he turned down in order to join the Israeli Army. After the IDF he returned to the States and got into politics. In 2006 he ran the House Democrat's Campaign Committee and won the first Democratic majority there since 1994. Obviously, a considerable man.

Hilarity entered into all of this after Rahm's appointment by Obama when a CNN reporter, at a loss for what to call a male ballet dancer said on Wolf Blitzer's show, ". . . and before he got into politics he was a ballerina."

Dance, ballerina, dance.