The Democrat machine in Chicago (and to a lesser extent the Combine that runs the state government of Illinois) is for all intents and purposes a criminal enterprise; it’s my contention that it’s Obama’s fondest desire to mimic that system nationwide.
Hence all the key components of the operation of the current regime: indifference to the rule of law; corruption of the judiciary; subversion of resistance from private enterprise via crony capitalism; use of the instruments of government (IRS, DOJ, etc) to intimidate ordinary citizens; elimination of political resistance by co-opting the weak and corrupt in the opposition party; etc. All of these approaches are well-established features of the Chicago machine, and all are becoming all too effective nationally.
All the United States Of America's National Politics is a criminal enterprise which means Washington D.C. is the capital of all Criminal Enterprises.