Hometown Boy Makes Bad

As a Chicago born and bred product, it pains me to watch the Cubs implode each year. I long for the Bears to return to the glory of ’85. I recall the Tribune as a conservative bastion under the leadership of the McCormick family and I remember when Dick Daley was the mayor…What? He still is? Never mind!

Now, the Tribune corporation, like most of the mainstream print media is both in the tank for liberals and in bankruptcy for finances. Yet, they gasp occasionally with some dramatic and necessary investigative reporting. I guess when you are deeply immersed in the cesspool which is Chicago politics, it becomes the low-hanging fruit which simply can’t be ignored. What amazes is the lack of outrage or reaction from the proletariat at the abject corruption of the entire state. My God, we’ve sent Barak Obama to the White House!

Check this story out for part of the whirlwind being reaped:

Chicago Politics and the US Senate

I hope you’ve got the time to explore the story with other sources. One which I quickly found was this:

This Seat For Sale

This raises hubris to a new level. The guv’s under federal investigation for corruption and he gets nailed by a taping discussing first how to reap profit from award of the Senate seat to a sycophant, then how to strong-arm the President-Elect for his own benefit, and even how to prep his own run for President in 2016. I guess he figures he will have been released on parole by that time to mount a campaign.

In the comments at Hot Air, there’s a familiar refrain from the Watergate days, “What did Obama know, and when did he know it.” It really becomes irrelevant. The essential here is that the corruption is wholesale throughout the entire Chicago and state political scene. The issue is the product of that system, not what was known when.

I keep getting these parallels between America and Rome after Marcus Aurelius. Caligula and Nero cannot be far behind, nor can barbarians be long in arriving at our gates.