A Chicago Problem

Roland Burris, the man Blago has tried to appoint to Obama's Senate seat, is not the only Chicago politician who erects monuments to himself. It's what they do here. Every public work you see has a sign in front of it, listing the politicians who "brought" it to you.

Of course, it was our tax money that brought it to us, just like it brought us all those expensive, though useless, signs with the politicians' names painted on them.

There's no indication (yet) that the taxpayers paid for this. Just the same, wouldn't you be embarrassed to build something like this to yourself? There's something very sad about it. Yet it's what they do in Chicago.