Both Papers in the Bag for Rahm

Days after the Slum Times endorses Rahm, the Trib does the same:

• Two weeks ago in this space, we laid out the case for re-electing Mayor Rahm Emanuel. We're back now to remind you why.
  
  We're also here to urge voters to support a strong batch of aldermanic candidates. Some of them will align with Emanuel, some of them will give him fits. Some of them will give us fits from time to time, too. We're backing them because we think they'll build their communities and challenge their colleagues. Chicago will be better for it.
  
  Credit Emanuel for his willingness to say and do what needs to be said and done. You don't score many points with voters by closing underperforming neighborhood schools, passing pension reform bills in Springfield, cutting jobs at City Hall or scrapping tradition-bound, ward-based garbage collection for a more efficient system. But those changes were long overdue, Emanuel did them and more, and he has taken the heat.

That would be the completely unplanned and uncoordinated school closings that led to neighborhoods complaining about kids crossing gang boundaries, giving birth to the ridiculous "Safe Passage" movement paying parents $10-an-hour to watch their own kids. That would also be the pension "reform" bill that got shit-canned at the Illinois Supreme Court. Cutting jobs at City Hall? The Hall seems to be the only place operating at full strength, while police Districts go undermanned, Fire Companies and Paramedics operate shorthanded, potholes go unrepaired, streetlights remain burned out for months, etc. Rahm is tryintoot run the city on the cheap.

Rahm has taken well deserved heat for all of this. But the Trib goes even further:

• But there has been precious little talk from the challengers about how they would honestly deal with the massive financial problems that face the city and its schools. Where will they find $550 million for police and fire pension funds? Why aren't they screaming that the teachers pension fund and four city worker funds are closing in on $30 billion in unfunded obligations? And what would they do about that?

And Rahm has said.....what exactly? Oh yeah, that he won't put one dime into the pensions until his idea of "reform" is passed in Springfield and survives lord knows how many court challenges. That isn't helping, that's exacerbating the situation. But hey, he isn't touching Trib and Sun Times retirements, so what do they care, even though they endorsed the same people who drove us into bankruptcy for years.