Who now reads Shakman?

Obama’s manager Axelrod in a Chi Trib op-ed in 2005 commenting on, actually objecting to, prosecution of patronage workers in Chicago:

Indeed, the decades-old Shakman federal consent decree proscribes hiring and firing for political reasons. But as I listened to [U.S. Attorney Patrick] Fitzgerald’s news conference after the government brought charges against the city workers, I realized he was saying something much more.

Fitzgerald proclaimed his vision of a day when the recommendations of elected officials, business, labor and community leaders will no longer count – a day when we entirely remove politics from government. And he seemed to be declaring his intention to use the criminal code to enforce that vision.

Yes, and if Obama wins, how long will Fitzgerald last in Chicago?

Read more of this at NBC5–Chicago’s Division Street blog by Steve Rhodes, who carefully and with all deliberation lays out the Obama-Daley connection.

Believe me, happy days will be there again among Cook County Democrats when The One comes marching into Washington, the laurel wreath on his head.  This town ain’t ready for reform, and neither is the Big O.