“So I told those Union Bosses…’Put ‘em up, put ‘em uuuuuup! Which one of you first? I’ll fight ya both together if you want. I’ll fight ya with one hand tied behind my back! I’ll fight ya standin’ on one foot! I’ll fight ya with my eyes closed! Ooooh, pulling a law suit on me, hey? Sneakin’ up on me, hey? Why, gnong-gnong!’. I showed em, just like that.”
“Excuse me everyone. (Closes eyess. Does a dance, humming. Stops) Sorry, I just got a text, my quarter of a mil I made today was direct deposited so I was celebratin’…”
Well I’ll just reach into my $20 million bucket of nightcrawlers, bait my hook real nice, and give it a good cast into the water. Next thing you know, I’ll be reelin’ in majorities in both houses like this.
Sets watch back to 1940 before minimum wage laws were enacted by Congress.
- Hawkeye in Illinois - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
Let me make this perfectly clear: Any child who goes to a charter school free of corrupt unionized teachers can grow up to be (almost) 7 feet tall and an (almost) billionaire just like me.
“What a dump. Not like that sweet restaurant at College of DuPage.”
- Diogenes in DuPage - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:40 pm:
“Ain’t I got some amazin’ new solutions for our union-burdened state?” (Repeatedly used “ain’t” and dropped 50% of his trailing Gs with an audience of 200 suburban superintendents.)
“Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?”
“I grew up on the mean streets of an affluent North Shore suburb. All I had going for me were these two mitts, some brains, some grit, and my dad being a VP at Motorola…”
“I really looks the curly straws, you know, loopy straws, go round and round, and I get those delicious strawberry shakes from Portillo’s…and I use the straw….(whistle) and I watch that strawberry shake go round.”
“I really like the curly straws, you know, loopy straws, go round and round, and I get those delicious strawberry shakes from Portillo’s…and I use the straw….(whistle) and I watch that strawberry shake go round.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:04 pm:
Shake, Shake
- Bluefish - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
Hey, Macarena!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
“I just cut social services…yes I di-id…and it feeeels good…yes it duh-does….Hmm hmm him-him….yes I cut it…”
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
This dumb watch keeps falling off! I guess now I can go back to wearing my Rolex.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
“I call this the ‘I will bury you’ dance…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:08 pm:
“No, no. I dance on the graves of my enemies like this…”
- Arsenal - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:08 pm:
The Neptunes have nothing on Rauner’s improvised beatboxing.
- okgo - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
I ate a baby!
- VanillaMan - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Governor Rauner demonstrates the new ring Taser on himself.
- Stones - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
“…and in closing as part of our austerity plan I intend to cut school lunch subsidies. Thanks for your attention and now please enjoy your filets!”
- William j Kelly - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Two turntables and a microphone
- A Citizen - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Of course you realize there is no free lunch!
- okgo - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
If you turn your head sideways, it looks like he is taking a nap.
If only I had photoshop skills.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
“When I hear that Payton Prep fight song my feet start a-tappin’, I get all happy inside, and I just dance!”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
Where was this photo taken? Chicago Club? It sure does not look like a school cafeteria!
Now that would be a picture!
- a drop in - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
…and when I get this tiny Illinois state budget in the bathtub….
- MrJM - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
Nothing but cuts up this sleeve…
and nothing but cuts up this sleeve…
Now watch your funding… DISAPPEAR!
– MrJM
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:12 pm:
“Nothin’ up my sleeve….presto!!!!”.
- The Colossus of Roads - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
And when I snap my fingers you will wake up and believe everything I tell you.
- PublicServant - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:15 pm:
Bruce Rauner sings “The Final Cut” by Pink Floyd
- JS Mill - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:22 pm:
I just love that shake weights exercise program! It kinda goes with my entire theme.
- Ghost - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:24 pm:
We need to lower wages so we can compete with china for work.
- Captain Illini - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:25 pm:
“A spoonful of hypocrite makes my medicine go down…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:27 pm:
“So I told those Union Bosses…’Put ‘em up, put ‘em uuuuuup! Which one of you first? I’ll fight ya both together if you want. I’ll fight ya with one hand tied behind my back! I’ll fight ya standin’ on one foot! I’ll fight ya with my eyes closed! Ooooh, pulling a law suit on me, hey? Sneakin’ up on me, hey? Why, gnong-gnong!’. I showed em, just like that.”
- Team Sleep - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:28 pm:
NEAL PEART RULES! DRUM SOLO TIME!
- Name Withheld - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:29 pm:
Rauner preps for the harmonica solo in Huey Lewis’ “Working for a Livin’”
- AC - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:33 pm:
“With my new executive order, I can beat up anyone who I define as a corrupt cog, with immunity from criminal charges.”
- Norseman - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:33 pm:
My former aide suggested that a tax increase was needed and I bopped him on the head until he suggested we should cut funding to foster kids.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
“So I told Rahm, as I rolled up my sleeve…”
- Cable Line Beer Gardener - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
Watch me drop a g out of my sleeve.
- ah HA - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Team Sleep,
LOL! Awesome!
Twist and Shout!!!
- Anonymous - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
“Ya put your right foot in,
ya take your right foot out …
- Bluecollargal - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
“I have a deal for you. Looking for some lucrative tax credits? Invest in charter schools.”
- Mama - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
I cut the Gifted program because kids don’t need it.
- Wensicia - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
“Pay no attention to that man behind the paneling!”
- Empty Suit - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
“la cucaracha la cucaracha..”
- PolPal56 - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
Gov. Rauner nimbly dodges the “death rays” blazing from the SRO section where the teachers are corralled.
- Jocko - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
“I was going to bring Evelyn with me, but I had no more room in my pocket. Ba-dum Ching!”
- High rollers - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 1:55 pm:
Looks like “high rollers in a high roller place.” You won’t find any plain, blue collar, hard working individuals here. We were long ago forgotten.
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:09 pm:
“What was my nickname for Quinn? Watch this.”
- How Ironic - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
Rauner “Literally…it’s this easy. You just walk over, and pull out the tube, and the ‘vent problem’ just resolves itself.”
- Wordslinger - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:15 pm:
“You play ball…. we play ball. I knowwwwww… you want the goodies…..”
- zatoichi - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
I want what I want when I want it! I am always right.
Guy to the right: ‘Where did this guy come from?’
or
Guy to the right: ‘Will you people please shut up. The Governor is talking.’
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
“So I rolled up my sleeves, and then I issued an EO outlawin’ cree-teekin’ me or anyone I say.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:39 pm:
“Evelyn taught me this. Nothing up my sleeve, now look behind you. There’s Ev! She’s magical.”
- Anon. - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:40 pm:
And when Sister Mary Martha smacked you with her ruler, you couldn’t even see her hand move. Now THAT was education and we need to bring it back!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:42 pm:
“Excuse me everyone. (Closes eyess. Does a dance, humming. Stops) Sorry, I just got a text, my quarter of a mil I made today was direct deposited so I was celebratin’…”
- Amalia - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:51 pm:
I’m all about the cuts, ’bout the cuts, no unions!
Rauner out.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 2:56 pm:
How am I gonna get this passed?
Well I’ll just reach into my $20 million bucket of nightcrawlers, bait my hook real nice, and give it a good cast into the water. Next thing you know, I’ll be reelin’ in majorities in both houses like this.
- Just Me - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:05 pm:
The Governor shows how his staff helped him prepare for his budget address, but writing the blackboard over and over again:
I will not raise taxes.
I will not raise taxes.
I will not raise taxes.
I will not raise taxes.
I will not raise taxes.
- Enviro - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
Sets watch back to 1940 before minimum wage laws were enacted by Congress.
- Hawkeye in Illinois - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:20 pm:
Let me make this perfectly clear: Any child who goes to a charter school free of corrupt unionized teachers can grow up to be (almost) 7 feet tall and an (almost) billionaire just like me.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:25 pm:
“On Wisconsin…”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:31 pm:
Bruce went to Lake Forest High School so he probably was educated by union members. I think Lake Forest is an IEA local.
- not applicable - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:35 pm:
“Security”
- Wordslinger - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:38 pm:
“What a dump. Not like that sweet restaurant at College of DuPage.”
- Diogenes in DuPage - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:40 pm:
“Ain’t I got some amazin’ new solutions for our union-burdened state?” (Repeatedly used “ain’t” and dropped 50% of his trailing Gs with an audience of 200 suburban superintendents.)
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 3:41 pm:
Governor is taking apart the microphone because he was told it was union-made.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
In honor of Day of the Dude:
“Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?”
- okgo - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:12 pm:
“bootss and pantss and bootss and pantss and bootss and pantss and bootss and pantss…”
- Ginhouse Tommy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:19 pm:
I didn’t know the Governor did karioke. What song is he singing, “Thrill is gone” by BB King?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:21 pm:
“You see these …see ‘em… my cuff links…the teeth of my enemies. Do I play for keeps? What do these cuff links say?”
- jazzy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:24 pm:
Everyone who loves me raise theit left no right hand
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:27 pm:
“I grew up on the mean streets of an affluent North Shore suburb. All I had going for me were these two mitts, some brains, some grit, and my dad being a VP at Motorola…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:44 pm:
“From my penthouse in Mew York, when I’m bored, I get water balloons, and I wait for the pizza guy, and I eye it, spit it…then…let it go!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:46 pm:
“I really looks the curly straws, you know, loopy straws, go round and round, and I get those delicious strawberry shakes from Portillo’s…and I use the straw….(whistle) and I watch that strawberry shake go round.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Mar 6, 15 @ 4:48 pm:
“I really like the curly straws, you know, loopy straws, go round and round, and I get those delicious strawberry shakes from Portillo’s…and I use the straw….(whistle) and I watch that strawberry shake go round.”
Apologies