A couple of hours after the Oak Park Democrat was sworn in, President Barack Obama released a statement, stating a "cloud has lifted" over Illinois--that cloud of course was Blago, whom Obama backed for governor in 2002 and 2006.
The Chicago Tribune's John Kass, who is a political columnist, not a meterologist, however does a better job of predicting the weather than Obama.
As TV meteorologists demonstrate almost every night before the sports highlights, Chicago clouds often blow to the east, heading across the banks of the mighty Potomac.
Yet cloud or no cloud, we're still the same old Illinois, run the Chicago Way. Where street gangs provide political muscle in many city precincts, where the Outfit still has reach among certain politicians and judges and cops, where small-business owners fear being crushed by political bureaucrats. And where Combine lords, Democrats and Republicans, work for a common purpose:
To install their children in public office or set friends and relatives before the public trough, to gorge on government contracts, often involving asphalt and concrete, in the name of providing jobs.
We've got a lot of work to do.
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