Question of the day
Friday, Jun 8, 2007 - Posted by Rich Miller
Come up with a bumper sticker slogan for the overtime session. I’ll put my idea in comments.
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Hey, it could always be worse. Somebody got punched in the Alabama legislature yesterday…
Simmering tensions in the Alabama Senate boiled over Thursday when a Republican lawmaker punched a Democratic colleague in the head before they were pulled apart.
Republican Sen. Charles Bishop claimed that Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron called him a “son of a (expletive).”
“I responded to his comment with my right hand,” Bishop said. Alabama Public Television tape captured the punch.
Click the pic for the video…
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:06 am:
I got your budget right here, pal.
- Ravenswood Right Winger - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:08 am:
“I’m driving because I can’t afford the CTA.”
- A Citizen - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:10 am:
Illinois-The Best Politicians Money Can Buy.
- So Ill - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:11 am:
“I’d Drive An Electric Car –
But I Can’t Afford It”
- Anon - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:11 am:
Like the snickers commercial - not going anywhere for awhile
- Leigh - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:13 am:
“Don’t blame me, I voted Republican!”
- the Other Anonymous - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:14 am:
“My Other Governor Is the Speaker”
- OneManBlog - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:15 am:
Three men enter, one man leaves…
It’s his fault.
So this is what Springfield looks like
Don’t blame me I voted with Mike
HB 1 at least it isn’t #2
- God's Country - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:17 am:
“I’d rather fight than switch.”
- Reddbyrd - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:20 am:
Where’s Tusk When We Need Him?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:20 am:
LOL. Reddbyrd, I never thought I’d ever agree with that sentiment, but I’m starting to come around.
- Honest Abe - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:21 am:
The Illinois General Assembly: “Putting Politicians First — Screw the Public.”
- Number 8 - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:24 am:
Come to Springfield to see the Sausage made! June 1st to ??
- Beerman - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:27 am:
Rich - I realize I’m not very creative but I had to give this the old college try.
1) My Speaker can beat up your Governor.
2) My other Governor is a piece of crap too
3) I’d rather be - somewhere else
4) Overtime Sucks
- Punley Dieter Finn - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:27 am:
The Squirrels Won’t Break For Me.
- He makes Ryan look like a saint - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:27 am:
Thompson NOW more than Ever
- Beerman - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:30 am:
Oh and…
My Boss is an Irish Lawyer.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:31 am:
If the hypothetical re-emergence of Brad Tusk is seen as a good thing, it just shows the depths to which this state has sunk.
The ubiquitous Rodney King quote seems to be appropriate - “Can’t we all just get along?” although former Mets manager Casey Stengel’s quote on his pathetic 1962 team seems more appropriate: “The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.”
- Downstate - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:31 am:
Blago- A man of convictions…none of them pending.
- Bluefish - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:33 am:
Budgets? We don’t need no stinkin’ budgets.
- WTF! - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:36 am:
Patience is a virtue for those that have nothing to do.
- cityhallreporter - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:42 am:
The Illinois Budget - Yesterday’s Problems Solved Tomorrow!
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:44 am:
Blago Happens
- nino brown - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:47 am:
Tusk-
Turns out he got out in time, maybe? Maybe Not.
- ZC - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:48 am:
“Overtime 2007 : Suspicious Minds”
We’re caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because I love you too much baby
Why can’t you see
What you’re doing to me
When you don’t believe a word I say?
We can’t go on together
With suspicious minds
And we can’t build our dreams
On suspicious minds
Here we go again
Asking where I’ve been
You can’t see these tears are real
I’m crying
When honey, you know
I’ve never lied to you
Mmm yeah, yeah
- WTF! - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:49 am:
Memoranda of Understanding - Serbian for “Trust Me!”
- so-called "Austin Mayor" - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:54 am:
“Be Patient: Rome Wasn’t Burned in a Day.”
- Shallow Pharnyx - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:54 am:
Buck Flago
- bored now - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:55 am:
“Mob Rules, Results Fleeting…”
- the atriot - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:56 am:
“Springfield looks great from the air…thats Bloomington sir”
- Fire Ron Guenther - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:57 am:
my fellow diehard college football fans will like this one: “Punt Blago, Punt!”
- Ghost - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:57 am:
Balanced Budget: a list of what we can’t afford
Budget Talks: deciding to buy it anyway
- Doug Dobmeyer - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 10:58 am:
Legislation take longer in Illinois - Have to get all the campaign contributions in first!
Doug Dobmeyer
- zatoichi - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:02 am:
The Illinois Budget - What’s in it for me?
- AlderTrack Fan - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:04 am:
Testicular Sterility
- the Patriot - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:05 am:
RE: AL-”Wish our legislature cared enough to fight.”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:08 am:
It’s noon in Illinois…do you know where YOUR governor is?
- Viator - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:09 am:
“Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote.”
- Juice - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:17 am:
Don’t look at me, I voted for Nieukirk
(somebody had to say it)
or we should all remember this nice little dish
Madigan: Ok, now I am trying to (expletive) the Governor
- Deep Water - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:19 am:
Part-time Job, Part-Time Progress.
- Sal - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:20 am:
Suck It Taxpayers!
- Doodles - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:21 am:
Regulation time … overtime … sudden death!
- anon - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:21 am:
Who Let Them Into The Room???
- i d - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:23 am:
Chicago land of cicada sounds; Springfield land of giant sucking sounds.
- Shallow Pharnyx - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:25 am:
Chicago lost its idiot.
- Milo Minions - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:27 am:
$$$$$$BLAGOJEVICH$$$$$$
- just wondering? - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:36 am:
Illinois just wants to keep up with (emil) Jones
- The Right Girl - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:36 am:
Overtime…it’s for the children
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:38 am:
“One Solution: Keno Parlours”
- friday - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:39 am:
My Governor is not an honor student
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:45 am:
Something’s Stinkin in the Land of Lincoln
- friday - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:48 am:
You can have a tax increase when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Friends help you move; real friends help you move a budget.
Rod’s slogan: Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
Filan: According to my calculations, the problem doesn’t exist.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:48 am:
Illinois Got Rod
Schools Got the Shaft
- chgo - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:54 am:
God: grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things leadership won’t; and the wisdom to know the difference.
(best placed below a legislative license plate)
- If It Walks Likw a Duck... - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 11:55 am:
Illinois Governors - We Need to Break Them In, Then Break Them Out.
- Papa Legba - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:00 pm:
Illinois - Land of 10,000 Indictments.
- Lincoln Lounger - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:07 pm:
IL Democrats Sweep: Seemed like a good idea at the time
- Latin Lady - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:13 pm:
carpe taxem
carpe taxem
if they don’t seizem
they are laxem
- Pedestrian - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:14 pm:
If you can read this bumper sticker, I guess you don’t commute by private jet
- Anono - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:18 pm:
Illinois Democrats: This is not what I signed up for.
- Patriot - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:19 pm:
Do not blame the politicians as they were educated in Illinois. Get on board and blame their teachers. Teachers have broad shoulders and have been shouldering the blame for years.
- GettingJonesed - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:21 pm:
1. Small Fire at JRTC closed the building
2. No one was there to evacuate
- Save a horse, Ride a Harley - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:21 pm:
Going OVERTIME on my dime. Brought to you by corrupt, Chicago, Democrat slime.
- Papa Legba - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:23 pm:
Hoosier Connection, eh? Sorry Indiana.
- Pro-gunner - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:32 pm:
Beating up gun owners is Blago’s number one priority. The budget will have to wait.
- Mr. CUB - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:37 pm:
Illinois >> Land of Lincoln Logs
- WOWWWWW - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:41 pm:
JACOBS FOR GOVERNOR
A REAL KICK A**
- Roger - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:41 pm:
“You could be living in Iowa”
- A Citizen - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:48 pm:
We have overtime - They need a timeout.
- Anonymoose - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:50 pm:
4 More Years–What Were We Thinking?
- Polly - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 12:55 pm:
Overtime pay, IL-style: time and a gaffe
- OneManBlog - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:02 pm:
My kids now swim with Rod’s kids.
Compromise means you agree with me.
My way or we stay.
We can increase services without raising taxes, at least that is what the Unicorn tells me.
- OneManBlog - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:02 pm:
No MOU for you.
- So Ill - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:05 pm:
Babies On Board?
- Elegius - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:10 pm:
You got your raise, now where’s our health care?
- the pug is on the prowl - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:13 pm:
Governor Nix–What’s she thinking?
- OneManBlog - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:22 pm:
Lisa 2010
- Carl Nyberg - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:33 pm:
Will vote for per diem.
- so-called "Austin Mayor" - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:45 pm:
“Illinois: We’re Not Alabama!”
- He makes Ryan look like a saint - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 1:48 pm:
OVERTIME 2007…”You aint seen nothing yet”
- GettingJonesed - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:11 pm:
Sun Times - Why No One Reads Newspapers!
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:20 pm:
Illinois: Making Haitian Government Look Good
- why me? - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:23 pm:
Abolish State Government
It does not work
- South of I-80 - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:31 pm:
Welcome to Camp Blagojevich!
AKA How I spent my summer vacation!!
- Illini - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:45 pm:
Illinois
Welcome to the Midwest version of Iraq
- Cap'n Crud - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:45 pm:
When fire drills are the only thrills
- anon - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:49 pm:
Wow! that’s some scene in Alabama. What happened, somebody eat the last possum?
- Jake from Elwood - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:50 pm:
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Welcome to Summer in Springfield
- Huh? - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 2:51 pm:
Chicago - Home of the Village Idiot
Springfield - Village Idiot Isn’t Home
Governor’s Mansion - Village Idiot Never Moved In
Illinois - Our Village Idiot has Grandious Schemes
- Skydog - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:07 pm:
The Rod & Patti Show
or
Empty Your Pockets
- Ferdy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:08 pm:
Illinois: We Gave You Lincoln. What More Do You Want?
- capitol view - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:12 pm:
taxing patience, not voters.
- one of the 35 - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:12 pm:
What did you expect from a state with a Governor who is proud of his C minus GPA?
- Ferdy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:17 pm:
Blago clarified: “Not universal HEALTH care…universal WEALTH care!”
- It's 5 O'clock somewhere - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:23 pm:
A penny saved is a government oversight.
- indy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:24 pm:
Paris Hilton for Governor
- traveling man - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:34 pm:
Heck with a Budget
I going to a legilative conference in the Caribbean
- fedup dem - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:47 pm:
Our Three Leaders (cue up “The Curly Shuffle”).
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:56 pm:
How’s My Governing?
DIAL 1-800-EAT-____.
- Paris - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 3:57 pm:
Hard work never killed anybody: Untested in the Illinois legislature
Senator Jacobs: Cover me. I’m changing my vote
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:14 pm:
“We Got Neuked…Vote Neukirk 2010″
- J. Kruk - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:15 pm:
GRT: Get Rod Treatment
- South Sider - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:38 pm:
Buy now, pay later — when I’m out of office!
- HoosierDaddy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:38 pm:
“Don’t tell my momma I work for the governor, she still thinks I’m the piano player in a wh**ehouse!”
- HoosierDaddy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:42 pm:
BTW, that vid would make a great campaign spot. “Senator Bishop: a legislator who really fights for you!”
- 5 Day Man - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:46 pm:
How About
Nix the Nuts
- phocion - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 4:48 pm:
I’d rather be right than President.
- Ferdy - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 5:22 pm:
Rails to Trials (I mean, Trails).
- Values - Friday, Jun 8, 07 @ 6:01 pm:
Great, thanks for moving the Govefnor’s Mansion to East Moline. Now, look how we get things done.
- Criminal Enterprise Called Illinois - Saturday, Jun 9, 07 @ 2:07 am:
Illinois - Best Government Money Can Buy