Chicago's Valerie Jarrett reflects on 8 years in Obama's White House

The Chicago Tribune reports on Valerie:

In Chicago, Jarrett worked under Mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley. She said the "rough and tumble" politics of Chicago was "nothing" compared with what she saw in the capital, pointing to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's upfront desire to see President Obama fail and the entrenched special interests with a "political and financial interest" in maintaining the status quo.

The "lowest point by far" of her tenure was the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "I remember it like it was yesterday," said Jarrett, who recently attended a memorial to mark the event's fourth anniversary.

As a mother, she was pained, while the attack also brought back memories of a personal tragedy from 46 years ago, when her grandfather James E. Bowman was murdered during a robbery attempt in his Washington dental office. The fatal shooting took place just before Christmas in 1970.

She said she regrets there was no congressional action on gun control in the aftermath of Sandy Hook.

Jarrett said the high points of her White House years include the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal. She said she's lost count of the times Congress has voted unsuccessfully to repeal Obamacare but has yet to see a replacement measure that keeps intact its key provisions.

Comrade Jarrett prefers one party government to operate her schemes.