Sad to say, I doubt whether such a Vicar General would be any more influential on the rogue American Catholic Church than was the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae on "Catholic" colleges and universities.
By the way, I'm hearing that Francis Cardinal George's major seminary in Mundelein is an outpost of the Lavender Mafia. If so, that's a huge problem, since that seminary serves multiple dioceses, if I'm not mistaken.