Think about the repercussions of taking on the most powerful Mayor in America, Jim. Or just go back to ranting about evolution and how our Israel policy should be determined by the Book of Revelation.
Last Monday, after the late night demolition, I was critical of Daley for the manner in which he pulled off this stunt, but the shutting down of Meigs is very reasonable. After hearing from the critics of the move, I’m starting to think Daley acted to mildly and should have gone further. The only lame part of Daley’s argument is his trying to justify it for security reasons.
James Inhofe probably doesn’t realize what is bloody obvious to the rest of the world outside of Oklahoma and the home-schooled. The fact that Inhofe is a moron of spectacular dimensions simply eludes his self-awareness.
A pilot who once lived in Chicago, Inhofe said he found it bitterly ironic the hearing dealt with improving "infrastructure" when the city demolished a critical piece of infrastructure: Meigs’ only runway.
In no way is Meigs Field’s one runway a critical piece of infrastructure. It served a small number of corporate planes and the State of Illinois jets ferrying state legislators and staff back and forth to Springfield for the weekends. On top of it, Meigs is unreliable because of bad lake weather.
Meigs had been slated for closing and being turned into a park for nearly 50 years. It cannot handle much traffic due to size and weather. It is 20 minutes to Midway and it is owned by the Chicago Parks District.
If someone wanted to save it, there was a law before the Senate that the dim-witted Inhofe’s colleague killed. If he wanted to save Meigs as a ‘critical piece of infrastructure’ there was a deal to be made, but Peter Fitzgerald refused. Whining that Daley did what the city had planned for 50 years isn’t a very convincing argument as to why Inhofe might threaten Illinois’ infrastructure funding.
And if Inhofe thinks that their Congressional Delegation can beat our Congressional Delegation, let’s introduce him to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.