OK, let me see if I have this straight: Rahm Emanuel quits being White House Chief of Staff and runs for mayor of Chicago. The retiring mayor of Chicago is Richard Daley, whose brother William Daley is reportedly being considered for the position of… White House Chief of Staff. Presumably this would be followed with Richard Daley endorsing Emanuel.
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Brilliant – in its way. But why the [expletive deleted] couldn’t they have shown this kind of ingenuity when it came to fixing the unemployment rate?
The Chicago Way.
Because what they value is their power, not the country.