Can We Kick Rahm Emanuel Out of the Democratic Party?

Dave Zirin, in The Nation:

Mayor Rahm Emanuel [who is] overseeing the closing of fifty-four schools and six community mental health clinics under the justification of a “budgetary crisis” has announced that the city will be handing over more than $100 million to DePaul University for a new basketball arena.

That's pretty loathsome, even for a Republican.  But if you can do stuff like this and you're still a Democrat in good standing, then what exactly is the point of being a Democrat?  We really only need one pro-oligarch party.  I'm all for a big tent, but not one big enough to encompass the very things a party that's on the side of the people is supposed to be fighting against.

We should kick this worthless scum out of the party, the way we kicked Lieberman out.  As far as I'm concerned, he's already self-deported.

Open thread.