After this week's terrible blizzard, the politics of snow in Chicago should be clear to anyone who can read the signs.
But you also have to know the creatures and their peculiar habitats. And you must be able to identify the tracks they leave — and those they don't leave — in all that snow.
So he wasn't standing next to Tom Byrne, his hand-picked Streets and Sanitation commissioner. Byrne spent his career as a cop, not as some snow fighter, and it's clear that he violated the cardinal rule of Chicago snow-fighting:
You never, ever, ever lose control of Lake Shore Drive, no matter how much it snows, no matter how hard the wind blows. Ever.
Orozco was out there too, committing ritual suicide on camera while Tommy Thumb stewed in the background. The mayor didn't even show up for the press conference, so we all know exactly who's walking the plank here.
The question remains, will they both rise from the political dead in a new administration?
The question remains, will they both rise from the political dead in a new administration?