Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
So much for Democratic Party harmony.Just a few days after a convention that displayed the party as one big happy family, a civil war has erupted in Chicago between the Democrats' disparate wings.Rahm Emanuel, the volatile, far-from-union-friendly mayor who is a mainstay of the national Democratic Party, and the almost-as-volatile Chicago local of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), itself a mainstay of the national Democratic Party, are at loggerheads over the future of Chicago's schools and teachers. The school strike that began Monday should be an alarm bell in the night...