Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) charges Obama with "beginning the unraveling of Social Security"

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75. Again, Chicago is the most investigated city in the nation.

Pick any city at random. Let it be the only city being permanently investigated by the feds. That city will be rated the most corrupt city in the nation because it will be the only city that is under investigation 24x7x365.

It so happens there is one and only city in the entire United States that is under permanent investigation. That happens to be Chicago.

Hire a roof inspector who finds a minor problem. Your foundation could be about to collapse, but "the most damaged portion of your house" is the roof. Because that is where you investigated. If you do not investigate, you are not going to find anything.


During the "open city" era in which mobsters ruled Chicago there was not a single elected Democrat in Chicago. Certainly, Dems have had their share of pols in cahoots with the mob. But this was always on an individual basis. The Party as a whole has never had the kind of ties that the Repubs had with the mafia. When Gov Len Small called out the National Guard to protect himself from arrest, Al Capone told him to send the Guard home cause the mob would take care of the problem. And they did.

When Chicagoans had enough, they finally elected their first Democratic mayor since the Civil War. Most historians believe the mob assassinated him though officially it is still listed as an assassination attempt on the President with the Mayor being accidentally shot by the killer who missed his intended target while standing a couple feet away from them. Eventually, the Dems ran Capone and company out of the city. They fled to Cicero which is still mob controlled to this day. Later, Rosemont was founded as a mob controlled city. Actually, more than a few of your Republican suburbs have heavy mob influence. The 'burbs is where the mob calls home.


Most people take "Chicago Democrat" to mean a member of the Democrat Machine in Chicago. I assumed you meant "Chicago Democrat" as a disparaging remark. After all, Quinn is a Democrat from Chicago and as squeaky clean as a politician gets. He is the Democratic version of Jim Edgar (minus the holier-than-thou bullshit). He, like Obama and Rahm, are not Machine Democrats.

In fact, with Obama then Rahm eclipsing them, I have to wonder if the Machine is dead. The fact that Daley betrayed everything the Machine stood for, I wouldn't be surprised.