MJM: You know, John, I keep hearing about this electric car with Senate plates parked at the Mansion. Meetings and dinners… Anything you want to tell me?
- Fairness and Fairness Only - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:08 pm:
Randolph Duke: Pay up, Mortimer. I’ve won the bet.
no caption here - but their posture brought to mind those old, whistling theme songs from Eastwood’s “spaghetti western” trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtblCZQXRsA
MJM: I’m a little worried about Rauner, now that the Fair is over. I want you to find out what he’s got under his fingernails, you know. Go to the Mansion, and make Rauner think that you’re not too happy with our fighting with him, and find out what you can.
“So I told the other members of the State Central Committee that their attendance and participation was no longer necessary. I got this covered. I am “a Party of One.” I guess you didn’t receive the memo.”
MJM: I love the law, John, you know that. Did you know I had another love (Cullerton shakes head ‘No’)… yeah… I really like math. Not addition or subtraction… no, I like geometry. You like geometry… John? (Cullerton shakes head, again ‘no’)… the proving of rules… “proofs”… they’re called proofs… things geometry knows are beyond a doubt… true. Line with triangles. Geometry has all these rules about triangles. Perfect triangles, rules on angles, on lengths of sides… I could spend days… studying just… triangles… you know…
MJM: I don’t want any more of that stuff.
JC: What stuff? What are you talking about?
MJM: Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
JC: Look, Mike…
MJM: I’m not talking about the property tax appeal business that you did on the side, you did what you had to do, I’m talking about now, from now, here and now.
JC: Mike, why would I want to get into that…
MJM: Don’t make a jerk out of me, just don’t do it… just don’t do it. Now I want to talk to you about Harmon, you have to watch out for him. He’s a good earner but he’s wild, takes too many chances.
JC: Yeah, I know that, I know Harmon, you think I would take chances like Harmon?
MJM: And Biss, he’s a good kid too. But he’s crazy, he’s a cowboy, he’s got too much to prove. You gotta watch out for kids like this.
JC: Yeah, I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me, you don’t have to worry.
MJM: Listen, I ain’t gonna get screwed like George Ryan, understand? Ryan is 70 years old, and the guy almost died in prison. I don’t need that. So I’m warning everybody, EVERYBODY. It could be my son, it could be anybody. Ryan got 7 years just for saying “hello” to Scott Fawell who was sneaking behind his back selling fundraising tickets. I don’t need that. Ain’t gonna happen to me, you understand?
JC: Uh huh.
MJM: You know that you’re only President because I got you the job. I don’t need this heat, understand that.
JC: Uh huh.
MJM: And you see anybody messing around with the assessor’s office, you’re going to tell me, right?
JC: Yeah.
MJM: [slaps him] That means anybody!
JC: All right.
MJM: Yeah?
JC: Yeah, of course.
Remember when we struck this exact pose, in a field, in our bib overalls, pulling a wagon, when we were just kids on the farm? Wonder whatever happened to that picture?
- Ahoy! - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:48 pm:
Cullerton speaks to the winner of the high pants long tie contest.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:49 pm:
MJM: I see you went “Rauner” today. No tie. I don’t even know you anymore.
- Mama - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
But, but… Brownie told me the meeting was in this room.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:53 pm:
MJM: John, your my friend, godfather to my son and I love you… but don’t ever take sides with Rauner against the Family again. Ever.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
MJM: Lochte. Amirite?
Cullerton: (resignedly shrugs)
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:56 pm:
MJM: Spit it out, John. What about how I wear my khaki pants…
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 2:58 pm:
MJM: You work on getting Durbin to run, I’ll “take care” of the others…
- Cheap Seats - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:00 pm:
“How was your career politician’s day?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:00 pm:
MJM: John, I though I told Scott Lee Cohen to go away. What is this I hear he’s thinking about running again?
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:03 pm:
MJM: Of course I feel bad that Munger is not paying our members, but…
Cullerton: Exactly.
- SinkingShip - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:04 pm:
“My goal is pants-to-the-chin, tie-to-the-shin by November.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:04 pm:
MJM: Might rain…
Cullerton: You don’t say…
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:06 pm:
MJM: John, if I lose seats, I lose seats. I only really need 63 or so… John?
- RNUG - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:08 pm:
This week I’m the bad cop and you’re the good cop. Next week we switch.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:08 pm:
MJM: You know, John, I keep hearing about this electric car with Senate plates parked at the Mansion. Meetings and dinners… Anything you want to tell me?
- Fairness and Fairness Only - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:08 pm:
Randolph Duke: Pay up, Mortimer. I’ve won the bet.
Mortimer Duke: Here, one dollar.
- Lucky Pierre - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:12 pm:
Geez do you think we should have passed a budget this year for the Governor to sign?
Nope we have ‘t had a balanced budget for over a decade, why start now. Rauner is dealing in the extreme, we are the moderation guys.
- Linus - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
no caption here - but their posture brought to mind those old, whistling theme songs from Eastwood’s “spaghetti western” trilogy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtblCZQXRsA
- Vote Quimby! - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
“Everybody else must be at the fair.”
- Last Bull Moose - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:15 pm:
And we thought Quinn was bad.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
MJM: I’m a little worried about Rauner, now that the Fair is over. I want you to find out what he’s got under his fingernails, you know. Go to the Mansion, and make Rauner think that you’re not too happy with our fighting with him, and find out what you can.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
MJM: “You stole that shirt from a Butternut driver, am I right?”
JC: “Busted.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:22 pm:
JC: “Don’t you know it’s ‘Casual Monday’?”
MJM: “What? For me, this IS casual.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
MJM: “Dad’s Home State” was pretty good this week…
Cullerton: Too much Goldberg. They need more “ck” plot lines…
- zatoichi - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
What? We worry?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
MJM: “I’m still recovering from the Democratic National Convention.”
JC: “Too much free booze?”
MJM: “Nah. Threw my shoulder out carrying all my free swag bags.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
MJM: “John, if that shirt had snaps instead of buttons…well, let’s just say it wouldn’t look good.”
JC: “Snap!”
MJM: “Huh?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
Cullerton: I saw it on Snap. Chat.
MJM: What’s a snap-chat?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
MJM: “Jesse White. Think I’m as popular as Jesse White?”
JC: “Did you see what the Sox did the other day?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:31 pm:
MJM: “Quinn popped out of a dumpster the other, like a jack-in-the-box. Wanted me to sign some screwy petition.”
JC: “Who?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
MJM: “Did you hear the rumor Trump’s going to fire this new guy and get Carrot Top to run his campaign?”
JC: “He worked for me once. Had some good ideas.”
- Back room deals - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
MJM: I don’t know why everyone thinks we cut deals in dark rooms. This room aint so dark.
JC: Careful what ya say … ya never know who’s listening.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
“Everyone’s a critic”
MJM: Boy, Rahm’s been on the phone with Rauner a long time.
Cullerton: How will we know Rahm’s done?
MJM: He usually throws the phone at the door, then he sees me…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:36 pm:
MJM: “I’m working on a new product for next St. Patrick’s Day. Green matzo balls.”
JC: “I’d keep working.”
- A guy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:38 pm:
Let’s go ahead and start. We’ve got a quorum.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
MJM: “Ran into George Will last week. He said they’re trying to start a ‘Draft Pee Wee Herman Movement.’”
JC: “Too complicated for a write-in. Is it Peewee or Pee Wee? Talk about your hanging chads.”
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
“So I told the other members of the State Central Committee that their attendance and participation was no longer necessary. I got this covered. I am “a Party of One.” I guess you didn’t receive the memo.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
MJM: I love the law, John, you know that. Did you know I had another love (Cullerton shakes head ‘No’)… yeah… I really like math. Not addition or subtraction… no, I like geometry. You like geometry… John? (Cullerton shakes head, again ‘no’)… the proving of rules… “proofs”… they’re called proofs… things geometry knows are beyond a doubt… true. Line with triangles. Geometry has all these rules about triangles. Perfect triangles, rules on angles, on lengths of sides… I could spend days… studying just… triangles… you know…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:44 pm:
JC: “So, is Lisa getting tired of waiting for you to retire?”
MJM: “I can retire from this job?”
- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:44 pm:
MM: “No it’s not just us. Chris Kennedy is here. He’s under the table.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
MJM: “People think I’m grouchy. Do you think I’m grouchy, John?”
JC: “Mike, anybody who hikes his pants up like you do to get a laugh can hardly be called grouchy.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:51 pm:
MJM: “Then he yelled ‘Yee hi’ and said he was gonna ride the Butter Cow.”
JC: “I heard Diana stopped him in the nick of time.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:52 pm:
MJM: John. You’re wrong. That’s it.
Cullerton: If you look at it…
MJM: No. You’re wrong on this.
Cullerton: Biker Bruce is the best Bruce.
MJM: Cowboy Bruce works on so many levels. Plus, the hat…
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:52 pm:
Remember when I said you should run for it now that Emil is leaving. Aren’t you glad your in charge?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:54 pm:
MJM: “Knock knock.”
JC: “Who’s there?”
MJM: “Blago.”
JC: “Blago who?”
MJM: “Blago my Eggo.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:57 pm:
Cullerton: Wow. That’s actually shocking. Really?
MJM: It’s not even close. I’ll miss Dunkin more than Franks. I just will. You look like you’re in shock…
Cullerton: I’m speechless.
MJM: Dunkin was predictable. I handle predictable. Franks made me pay attention to him. I don’t like that…
Cullerton: Now they’re both gone.
MJM: Won’t be the same. Oh well, (sigh)… enough of that…
- LessAnon? - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:57 pm:
Nice tie, John.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 3:59 pm:
Cullerton: Face it. I’m more popular than you.
MJM: Says who?
Cullerton: Polls.
MJM: Polls? Which polls?
Cullerton: Polls… ‘Which polls?’… all of them.
(Silence)
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:02 pm:
MJM: “So, have you seen any Republicans wearing those Career Politician buttons?”
JC: “Are you kidding? They were as big a hit as Jerry Ford’s WIN button.”
- facts are stubborn things - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:04 pm:
John, I thought I would wear my tie long enough to make up for you not having one.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:09 pm:
JC: “Simple. You hire a hacker.”
MJM: “How is a guy with a bad cough going to stop Miller from doing caption contests about me?”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:10 pm:
MJM: I don’t want any more of that stuff.
JC: What stuff? What are you talking about?
MJM: Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
JC: Look, Mike…
MJM: I’m not talking about the property tax appeal business that you did on the side, you did what you had to do, I’m talking about now, from now, here and now.
JC: Mike, why would I want to get into that…
MJM: Don’t make a jerk out of me, just don’t do it… just don’t do it. Now I want to talk to you about Harmon, you have to watch out for him. He’s a good earner but he’s wild, takes too many chances.
JC: Yeah, I know that, I know Harmon, you think I would take chances like Harmon?
MJM: And Biss, he’s a good kid too. But he’s crazy, he’s a cowboy, he’s got too much to prove. You gotta watch out for kids like this.
JC: Yeah, I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me, you don’t have to worry.
MJM: Listen, I ain’t gonna get screwed like George Ryan, understand? Ryan is 70 years old, and the guy almost died in prison. I don’t need that. So I’m warning everybody, EVERYBODY. It could be my son, it could be anybody. Ryan got 7 years just for saying “hello” to Scott Fawell who was sneaking behind his back selling fundraising tickets. I don’t need that. Ain’t gonna happen to me, you understand?
JC: Uh huh.
MJM: You know that you’re only President because I got you the job. I don’t need this heat, understand that.
JC: Uh huh.
MJM: And you see anybody messing around with the assessor’s office, you’re going to tell me, right?
JC: Yeah.
MJM: [slaps him] That means anybody!
JC: All right.
MJM: Yeah?
JC: Yeah, of course.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
“it’s simple John…lift your pants, lift your spirit”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
- 47th Ward - wins…
Well played. Awesome.
- Allen Skillicorn - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:26 pm:
Are you wearing a wire?
- One to the Dome - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 4:31 pm:
Cullerton: y’know Mike the Cubs are doing rather well
Madigan: Yes, I suppose… its the only Turnaround Agenda that this Sox fan would ever support.
- Illinois Bob - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 5:12 pm:
Two’s a coincidence, three’s a conspiracy….where’s Durbin so that we can do this right?
- Anon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 5:16 pm:
JC - “the pants are still a little high. They should be down here, where my hands are.”
- Amalia - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 5:42 pm:
John, you are a godfather, but I am THE godfather.
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 5:55 pm:
Standing toe to toe
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:00 pm:
So he thought voter fraud is fooling the voters
- blue dog dem - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:00 pm:
JC: hey Mike, you make it down to the fair?
MJM: no John. Last fair I made it to was my first year in office. Man. Did those dudes down there in St. louis know how to put on a fair!
- peon - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:07 pm:
“No, it’s definitely Trump-Rauner, not Rauner-Trump. We’ve gotta be consistent”.
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:19 pm:
Budget buddy’s
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:35 pm:
Which republican do you think will want in on this meeting?
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:54 pm:
47, I really got nothin’ after you, but..
MJM: Why aren’t we meeting at Bill’s hotel?
JC: I didn’t think it was his hotel anymore.
MJM: It will always be Bill’s hotel.
.
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 6:55 pm:
Playing mumbly peg
- Rabid - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 7:15 pm:
Term limits are for winners
- siriusly - Monday, Aug 22, 16 @ 7:22 pm:
47 wins
JC: So Clinton looks pretty good, I hope that email stuff doesn’t slow her down.
MJM: What’s email?
- Huh? - Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 6:39 am:
MM - You good with the plan?
JC - Yeah, I’m good.
- Blago's Hare - Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 7:24 am:
Remember when we struck this exact pose, in a field, in our bib overalls, pulling a wagon, when we were just kids on the farm? Wonder whatever happened to that picture?