Do you like having the Children's Museum moved to the park?

If so, thank Barack Obama for helping to make it possible:

Barack Obama's a swell guy, always willing to help out Chicago museums with federal taxpayer money… whether they need it or not.

In 2007, after he began his presidential campaign, Obama sought a $1 million federal earmark for the Chicago Children’s Museum to build a new facility. The museum, as of the end of fiscal 2007, had revenue in excess of expenses of $23 million, and net assets of $37 million.

If a museum is sitting on millions in profits, shouldn't they spend some of that before taxpayers nationwide are asked to kick in?

(That's from Jim Geraghty.)

Most people in the city don't actually want the museum to move, but darned if they can always find a way at the ballot box to keep re-electing the politicians who screw them.