SO HOW ARE THINGS IN THE CITY RUN BY OBAMA’S FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF? Bloody start to year as Chicago homicides hit 50, worst January since at least 2000.

But then, everything Emanuel touches eventually turns to lead, but with plenty of opportunity for Democrat graft and loss of freedom for Americans along the way. Just to review, Emanuel recruited the “Blue Dog” Democrats in 2006 who posed as moderates and fiscal conservatives to take back Congress, only to vote en masse for Obamacare three years later while Rahm served as Obama’s chief of staff, before doing to Chicago what he attempted for the rest of the country. That’s change we can believe in.

The sad thing is that the Democrat’s one-party rule of Chicago could always be worse.