Imagine If....

Can you imagine the outrage if you, a lowly police officer, was accused of repeatedly lying?

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s schools chief “repeatedly lied” to investigators and engaged in a “full-blown cover-up” of behavior that he and the top attorney for Chicago Public Schools engaged in over the past 20 months, the CPS inspector general says in a report released Thursday.
  
  In a blistering, 103-page document he sent Tuesday to the Chicago Board of Education, Inspector General Nicholas Schuler said he was “left with no recourse but to conclude” that the board should fire CPS CEO Forrest Claypool.
  
  “Claypool greatly compounded the severity of his misconduct when he repeatedly lied to the [inspector general’s office] through two separate interviews,” Schuler wrote.
  
  But Emanuel rushed to Claypool’s defense after the release of the report. And Frank Clark, the president of the school board — whose members were chosen by Emanuel — also has praised Claypool since getting the report.

Does anyone truly think they'd get the benefit of the doubt if they lied as often and as completely as Claypool has?

On the bright side, Rahm has now done everyone another solid:

• First, he established in a Court that residency can be proven by as little as a wedding dress stashed and forgotten in a crawl space;
• Now he has established that anyone can lie and obstruct an investigation by the Inspector General and all will be forgiven, along with a statement expressing unqualified support

It's a great day to be politically connected.