Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm is bombing

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm is bombing:

Rahm is bombing

by Mike Klonsky

In the minds of many Chicagoans, tough-talking Little EmperorRahm is proving himself to be little more than a windbag and a corporate toady. He's like my old dog Bogart who barked loudly but shat near the house.

His "get-tough" approach with Parking Meters LLC was rejected by the City Council when it was discovered that it would actually add millions more to the hated LLC's bottom line instead of curbing their greedy grab of  of citizens' dollars . The same with his phonynegotiations with the Cub-owning Ricketts' who are the Bain Capital of baseball sports team buyers.

Worst to the voters  is his moving forward with his  massive school-closing debacle, despite overwhelming opposition from the community. In other words, when the the Civic Committee tells Rahm to jum, the self-proclaimed "new sheriff in town" jumps, public opinion be damned.

Throw in the daily reports of neighborhood gun violence, increasing as the