Not too badly, for starters.  Consider Mayor Rahm Emanuel, late of the global office, winner of primary in one-party city, now with Fifth Floor Office on LaSalle Street, and his “pension plan.”  As elucidated by Sun-Times people Spielman and McKinney 5/9/12.

Their story shows Democrats getting the Wis. Gov. Scott Walker message.  Showing the way to fiscal sanity, Walker has emboldened the weak of heart, even in Illinois.  Ditto Wis. Congressman Paul Ryan, rashly depicted as violating Christian principles with program of austerity when quite the opposite is true.  A little child will lead them, says Scripture in another context; in this case it’s Wisconsin.

As for violating Christian or peculiarly Catholic principles, where is the rule that says you rob Peter to pay Paul over and over until all falls down and all suffer, the poor as usual more than anyone else?  Or one that…