Mayoral 'apology' is really a snow job

Mayor Richard Daley has made so many apologies for his whopping parking-meter rate increase fiasco that he's finally confused the heck out of me.

This week, he leaked an apology, but it wasn't really an apology at all, and later he said he had already apologized months ago, so there. The man is a political genius.

Now, I've heard virtually every Daley almost-apology in history, including all the times he almost promised that his family and cronies wouldn't make fortunes from public deals. Who can forget that first dramatic almost-apology when, with trembling lips and quivering cheeks, he apologized for telling African-Americans living in Chicago public housing they'd save the city on water bills if only they'd take just one shower a day. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass