Hillary Clinton’s latest outburst against Bernie Sanders gives me a chance to shatter one of my least favorite myths about Chicago politics—that popularity is linked to productivity or that only those who go along get things done.
That’s even nastier than what she told Howard Stern a few weeks ago. You know, I’m no Sigmund Freud, but it sure looks like Hillary’s not about to get over that 2016 primary campaign anytime soon.
Or, “Why can’t he just shut up and get along?”
And third, Sanders hasn’t been able to achieve his legislative goals—like national health care—because they’re too radical for the powers that be. Not because he’s unlikeable. Hell, Bernie couldn’t get them passed if he told jokes, juggled, and did his Richard Nixon impression.
He helped expose the wasteful and/or corrupt proposals that the mayor was ordering the council to pass, like Daley’s parking meter deal.
Recently Waguespack proposed a ban on foam to-go containers in Chicago restaurants.
