A brilliant post on power

Marc Ambinder has a great post on how power is played in Washington, looking at the case of the recent Politico article where Pelosi "laid down the law" to Rahm Emanuel.

The key point that Ambinder emphasizes is the timing of this Pelosi allied leak, hitting Emanuel when he's at his lowest ebb with his Blagojevich contacts seized up in the Fitzgerald investigation. Emanuel can't comment on that right now, and since that's all the press wants to ask him, he's effectively off the field for a week.

So, the Pelosi camp chooses now to leverage him.....

Brilliant.