Thursday, August 06, 2009

Chicago Way Today

John Kass column on the Chicago muscle in Washington--Rahmbo looms large.

And Michael Sneed reports the well-connected state Sen. Jimmy DeLeo, close personal friend of Blago and Rahmbo, is going to take his life in a "new direction". I imagine Kass will have another column about that. Here's a sampling:
At Jimmy’s trial, Outfit gambling boss Ken “Tokyo Joe” Eto emerged from the witness protection program to testify that he passed cash to Jimmy via handshakes. Eto had been hiding since Outfit hit men tried to kill him. They used cheap bullets, and three slugs failed to fully penetrate Eto’s diamond-hard cranium.

The jury didn’t believe the feds. They believed Jimmy and acquitted him, so he rose to political prominence, and now Obama’s chief of staff is the congressman in the district Jimmy controls.
No mystery on the thuggish tactics the White House is employing in trying to shove healthcare through.

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