Singing: “I’m leaving on an airplane…don’t know when I’ll veto again…”
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:56 am:
The Governor smiles and waves to the crowd gathered at Springfield Regional Airport. Before entering the plane he takes time to thank the crowd for celebrating the budget approval with the old harvest tradition of throwing out the rotten tomatoes.
- Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:56 am:
Pilot: “…great, look at that mess. Who’s gonna clean that up…”
Oh Darn! Did I leave that pesky electric rate package on my desk in Springfield? Oh well, goodbye little people. YOUR Governor has just signed the budget I DID IT MY WAY! Boy, my staff Ahemmmm - I MEAN I am tired. Hey, how do I look? Hows the hair? Is this a good pose for me? Do I look like I’ve done something?
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:00 pm:
After completing his “Shock and Awe” mission in Springfield, Blagojevich boards Air-Gov for his return flight home, tentatively named Mini-Prairie Chapel Ranch North.
chaos… universal condemnation… party in disarray due to all the infighting…. constitutional crisis upcoming…
that’s enough for one day. Time to go home.
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:31 pm:
“I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we will never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road hoping we will.”
- Because no one else has said it - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:31 pm:
“Did you know there are 1.4 million Illinoisans without health care?”
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:43 pm:
“I would not be just a nuffin’
My head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain”
“Whose the porker now, huh?? Can I get a good oink, come on give me a oink? my peasants!! ”
(oink is subbed for amen in a revival preacher kinda way, wish I had audio for this one…)
Hey, wait a second. Is that a corporate JET over there and I’m in this lowly turboprop? We’re obviously not taxing corporations enough. I propose a new tax on any corporation that doesn’t pay for health insurance OR has a nicer plane than mine.
By flying over those silly flood zones the voters won’t even noticed I vetoed the money for their silly flood prevention projects. And I get to fly in my cool airplane while doing it.
Guy Outside: Governor, Duck!
Blago: I don’t see a duck. Are you trying to..
KA-THUNK!! (sound of gubernatorial melon smacking
airplane door frame)
Guy Outside: I told you to duck!
Blago: My hair, My hair, is it ok? Where’s the
football?
Well I never went away on a Steam Powered Aero plane.
Well I went and stayed and damn near didn’t come back again.
Didn’t go very fast on a steam powered aero plane,
Oh the wheel went around, up and down, and inside and then back again.
Sittin’ in a 747 just watching them clouds roll by,
Can’t tell if it’s sunshine or if it’s rain.
Rather be sittin’ in a deck chair high above Kansas City,
On a genuine old fashioned steam powered aero plane.
Well I’d like to be a pilot on a steam powered aero plane.
Well I’d pull that pilot wheel around and then back again.
Well, I’ll wear a blue hat, yeah, that says Steam Powered Aero plane
With letters that go around the rim and then back again.
- keep up with the jones - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:25 am:
Home james.
- Skeeter - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:26 am:
“Today I announce my new $50 million program to free Illinois air from turbulence.”
- Bacon - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:27 am:
“Bye, bye Springfield. I’ll be back next June to finally start state work.”
- MOON - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:31 am:
This reminds me of Nixon bidding goodbye after he resigned ! I think Blago’s future is the same as Nixon !
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:31 am:
Coming soon to theaters:
AirHead One — The Gripping Story of the Governor’s Grueling Daily Commute
- Esteban - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:31 am:
FLEEING THE STATE CAPITOL IN STYLE…….
- The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:33 am:
Smile and wave, no one will notice I’ve been regulated to enter through the back door.
- Porcupine - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:34 am:
PORK? My tax-payer commuter jet is NOT pork! Pork would be an expansion of a facility for veterans, not my commuter jet!
- prairiestatedem - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:36 am:
Non extradition country here I come
- Lurking moderate - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:39 am:
So long suckers!
- VanillaMan - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:40 am:
I LOVE you people, with your little cars all running around like ANTS. I AM THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS! YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAW!
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:42 am:
I’m going to St. Martin, just read in the Sun-Times that they won’t extradite me from there!
- anon - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:50 am:
With God as my witness, I thought turkey’s could fly.
- Ghost - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:51 am:
Singing: “I’m leaving on an airplane…don’t know when I’ll veto again…”
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:56 am:
The Governor smiles and waves to the crowd gathered at Springfield Regional Airport. Before entering the plane he takes time to thank the crowd for celebrating the budget approval with the old harvest tradition of throwing out the rotten tomatoes.
- Commonsense in Illinois - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 10:56 am:
Pilot: “…great, look at that mess. Who’s gonna clean that up…”
- Niles Township - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:00 am:
Blago steps into the Federal Bureau of Prisons jet, and waves a final goodbye to his last supporter, before he heads off to Club Fed.
- Carl Nyberg - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:05 am:
Somehow there’s an Elvis and Buddy Holly joke, but I can’t put it together.
- Hmmmm? - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:07 am:
Say goodbye to another $6,000.00.
- Sky King, Jr. - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:15 am:
“I can’t wait until I get to fly in a real airplane.”
- Borat - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:16 am:
Hi Fiiiive
- Smile - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:20 am:
Madigan is grounded
- Bue - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:22 am:
Cut my travel budget? Yeah, when “pork” can fly…..oh wait.
- UGA - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:27 am:
Leave him alone, he’s going to find ManBearPig.
- oink - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:37 am:
THEIR pork OUT
MY pork IN
and AWAY WE GO!
- Say WHAT? - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:39 am:
Oh Darn! Did I leave that pesky electric rate package on my desk in Springfield? Oh well, goodbye little people. YOUR Governor has just signed the budget I DID IT MY WAY! Boy, my staff Ahemmmm - I MEAN I am tired. Hey, how do I look? Hows the hair? Is this a good pose for me? Do I look like I’ve done something?
- tgif - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:47 am:
Episode from Fantasy Island: The plane Boss, The Plane….
- nutty 2 - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:48 am:
Reporter: You’ve just screwed the State of Illinois; What are you doing next?
Gov: “I’m going to Disneyworld!”
- Trafficmatt - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:49 am:
Comment from the man standing next to the plane. “Come on boss, this is embarrassing. Do I really have to fly with this guy?”
Alternate caption from the same man. “No Mr. Madigan, I won’t throw him out of the plan over Lake Michigan.”
- PJ - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:56 am:
“I wonder what the poor people are doing today?”
- Pollyanna - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 11:57 am:
“Up in the air junior birdman . . . “
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:06 pm:
Mass Transit? That’s for people that don’t have access to taxpayer-funded jets!! BWAHAHAHA!!!
- Napoleon has left the building - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:07 pm:
Wait . . . there’s nobody in the plane for me to talk to. I can’t sit here without an audience for 40 minutes! Someone go get Hoffman!
- Central Illinoisan - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:08 pm:
“Honey I’m just headed to Springfield. I’ll be back in three hours.”
- Music Man - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:16 pm:
Me and Mr. Jones…
We got a thang
Goin’ on…
Come on Emil - this jet’s going home!
- A Citizen - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:24 pm:
Gov 1/2 pint enters Air Force 1/4 pint.
- Father Time - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:25 pm:
Tell Dan Hynes he can cut those checks now … I’m off to Graceland for a much-needed break
- Mr. W.T. Rush - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:30 pm:
Hey Jill and Tressa — wanna see my propeller?
- PDB - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:33 pm:
“I am not a crook!”
- pickles!! - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 12:47 pm:
“i get to fly on the Spuce Goose? Yippie!”
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:00 pm:
After completing his “Shock and Awe” mission in Springfield, Blagojevich boards Air-Gov for his return flight home, tentatively named Mini-Prairie Chapel Ranch North.
- Porter - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:01 pm:
“Goodbye, Springfield, from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!”
- s.k.hicks - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:04 pm:
“I’d just like to say So-long and Thanks to all of my friends …. well, to both of my friends …. well, call me, Emil.”
- Fake Bill - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:12 pm:
Senator Meeks said the best seat on a plane is right here. The view will be spectacular!
- bridgeport bombthrower - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:13 pm:
Wow the in flight movie will be “The Dan Walker Story”
- DOWNSTATE - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:16 pm:
Governor Sir that’s not the way you give the finger.
- Dan a Voter - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:25 pm:
What would it cost to get the Pilots to dump him at 25,0000 ft???
- capitol view - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:27 pm:
chaos… universal condemnation… party in disarray due to all the infighting…. constitutional crisis upcoming…
that’s enough for one day. Time to go home.
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:31 pm:
“I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we will never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road hoping we will.”
- Because no one else has said it - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:31 pm:
“Did you know there are 1.4 million Illinoisans without health care?”
- Jechislo - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:34 pm:
Ca-ching$$ God, I’ts so nice to be me.
- From the Sidelines - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:43 pm:
“I would not be just a nuffin’
My head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain”
- Music Man - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:48 pm:
oooh - daddy like Sidelines.
- duh - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:56 pm:
I got millions just from pullin’ pork. Man it’s gonna be a heck of a BBQ!
- duh - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 1:57 pm:
I forgot to mention, I’m gettin’ home to Patty to help her pick up the place a little. You all bring a covered dish!
- PJ - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:09 pm:
I wanna talk about me
Wanna talk about I
Wanna talk about number one
Oh my me my …
- Squideshi - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:09 pm:
I get to ride in a jet? Awesome! High five!
- Belle - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:13 pm:
“Whose the porker now, huh?? Can I get a good oink, come on give me a oink? my peasants!! ”
(oink is subbed for amen in a revival preacher kinda way, wish I had audio for this one…)
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:13 pm:
All Springfield ever sees of Rod.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:22 pm:
Bye bye, don’t let the door hit ya in the….
- PJ - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:23 pm:
Darned Chicago fire…if it hadn’t been for that the capitol would have been built there and I wouldn’t have to ride this thing every single day.
- Silent Majority - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:26 pm:
For the record folks, it’s NOT a jet. It’s a King Air Turboprop. It does use the more expensive
Jet A fuel though.
- Ken in Aurora - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:36 pm:
“Don’t worry - Mike Madigan *personally* packed my parachute!”
- SO ILL - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:43 pm:
“Whew. I think that went pretty well.”
- Jake from Elwood - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:49 pm:
Where is the “Mission Accomplished” Banner at? And where’s my flight suit?
- Wumpus - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 2:50 pm:
Off to buy some milk from the corner market
- Just a Voter - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:01 pm:
I’m going to Graceland to have an in depth conversation with Elvis about the budget….
- Just My Opinion - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:02 pm:
Oh yoo hoo, Mr. Pilot, shouldn’t you wait to taxi until I’m in my seat? Anybody? Hey, I’m up here?
- Linus - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:02 pm:
Illinois’ favorite flyboy, soaring off to once more enjoy “basically, an up day” that he can “feel good about.”
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:33 pm:
“My work here is done.”
- PJ - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:33 pm:
Hey, wait a second. Is that a corporate JET over there and I’m in this lowly turboprop? We’re obviously not taxing corporations enough. I propose a new tax on any corporation that doesn’t pay for health insurance OR has a nicer plane than mine.
- Mongo - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:37 pm:
“I’lll be baaaack”
- Leigh - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 3:55 pm:
By flying over those silly flood zones the voters won’t even noticed I vetoed the money for their silly flood prevention projects. And I get to fly in my cool airplane while doing it.
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:06 pm:
Governor Blagojevich boards his plane after declaring four Illinois counties and himself disaster areas…
- City Voter - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:24 pm:
And this little pig went wee, wee, wee all the way home. So long, soakers!
- annon - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:26 pm:
I LOVE YOU PEOPLE, YOU ILLINOIS PEOPLE…..SEE YOU NEXT TOUR !!!!!!!! ROCK ON !!!
- annon - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:30 pm:
Hey !! Penny ! Will !! Uncle Sky ! What do you think of my new ride ?? Much nicer & faster than your silly old Cessna 310 “Songbird”
- Silent Majority - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:30 pm:
As General McArthur said, I shall return. (It took McArthur 3 years to do so.)
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:35 pm:
Guy Outside: Governor, Duck!
Blago: I don’t see a duck. Are you trying to..
KA-THUNK!! (sound of gubernatorial melon smacking
airplane door frame)
Guy Outside: I told you to duck!
Blago: My hair, My hair, is it ok? Where’s the
football?
- annon - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:43 pm:
silent majority , 3 years, that’s about enough time to vote him out of office.
- HighwayMan - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 4:59 pm:
To assembled press: “I’m King of the World!”
Thinks to self: “I should have a bigger plane.”
To staff: “Time to get stupid crazy with my homey, Emil!”
- If It Walks Like a Duck... - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 5:06 pm:
“Look Boss, a plane!” ala Fantasy Island.
- JolietJake - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 6:53 pm:
Well I never went away on a Steam Powered Aero plane.
Well I went and stayed and damn near didn’t come back again.
Didn’t go very fast on a steam powered aero plane,
Oh the wheel went around, up and down, and inside and then back again.
Sittin’ in a 747 just watching them clouds roll by,
Can’t tell if it’s sunshine or if it’s rain.
Rather be sittin’ in a deck chair high above Kansas City,
On a genuine old fashioned steam powered aero plane.
Well I’d like to be a pilot on a steam powered aero plane.
Well I’d pull that pilot wheel around and then back again.
Well, I’ll wear a blue hat, yeah, that says Steam Powered Aero plane
With letters that go around the rim and then back again.
- dekalbdem - Friday, Aug 24, 07 @ 7:01 pm:
To the tune of Fly Me To The Moon:
“Fly me,I’m a loon…
Let me play on my guitar,
Let me see what life is like
Before I’m behind bars….
In other words, hold my hand…
In other words, someone miss me……pleeze?”