ChiTrib’s Eric Zorn does Danny Davis nicely today:

“We have to reassess the operation of city government and make some serious determinations about what our needs are,” said Chicago mayoral hopeful and Democratic U.S Rep. Danny Davis Wednesday evening. We must “see whether or not there are any additional revenue generators or enhancers, and then make decisions and determinations on the basis of that.”

I curled into the fetal position on the couch in front of the television and began whimpering as Davis’ interview with WTTW-Ch. 11’s Carol Marin continued.

The rest of it is right here.

Tom Roeser would object on at least one count.  Zorn calls it Davis’s “magnificent baritone” voice; Roeser has it “basso profundo,” which I find more evocative but can’t say if more accurate.

Danny D. wants to be mayor, as most of us know.  Zorn finds him not only vague and thus noncommittal on solving fiscal problems but also redundant, with his idea to merge Cultural Affairs with Special Events — Mayordaley II has that in his latest budget.  At a savings of “less than a tenth of a percent of the city’s $6.15 billion budget,” by the way.

But that cornerstone of Danny’s fiscal strategy might not even make it in a Davis administration.  Why?  Because Danny D. embodies taxing and spending philosophy as perhaps no other elected official in the history of the republic.

It’s here, where his dismissal of financial worries over the not yet passed Obamacare is recorded.  And will be recorded elsewhere in too-long-dormant accounts of his townhall meetings last spring in Oak Park and Westchester.  For now, however, in the immortal goodbye of Porky Pig, th-th-that’s all, folks.