The always impressive John Kass in today’s Chicago Tribune:

Not even three or four pipes full of Hopium could have convinced me that the Congress of the United States would ever start looking like the Chicago City Council.
But now, with the Chicago Way White House twisting arms for its federal health care legislation, Democrats in Congress and Chicago aldermen are beginning to share a remarkable resemblance.
They’re starting to look like fall guys.
“The Congress? They’re acting like aldermen. Like fall guys. And we know all about fall guys in the city of Chicago,” said Jim Laski, a former Chicago alderman and former federal inmate who is now a WGN radio talk show host.
And:
In Chicago, the mayor gets what he wants, and the mayor’s friends get what they want. And the aldermen? They get the ridicule and the blame.
If the president gets what he desires — a health care victory — then Congress will pay for it in the midterm elections in November, and they know it.
The proof is in that latest congressional trick announced on Tuesday, a ploy so weaselly that it could have been hatched by Chicago politicians.
House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) of Maryland is now talking about allowing his members to pass the president’s health care package — whatever’s in it exactly, no one really knows — without a direct up-or-down vote on the current bill.
“It’s consistent with the rules,” Hoyer was quoted as saying on Tuesday. “It’s consistent with former practice.”
Consistent with the rules? Perhaps, but it sure isn’t what President Barack Obama promised when he was talking like a reformer.
Read the whole thing here.
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