“The party was great. The band started playing ‘Macarena’, and they gave me these two maracas and I got to lead the Conga line. Da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da da. It was a hoot”
Ok John, but this is the last time today I’ll sing “Sunddenly Seymour” to you. People will talk about our meeting in the back of the chamber to sing songs from “Little Shop of Horrors”…
- Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:16 pm:
Ironically, Cullerton is displaying a hand symbol which resembles the American Sign Language sign for “more”. If you doubt, look it up. It’s pretty close. Whether they are discussing more pork or more taxes is anyone’s guess.
“Chris, I gotta tell ya, this guy Collins is a creep. Every time I had to tell him another of his little Commission ideas wasn’t gonna make it, he’d take his hands like this and say, ‘Is it going to take a few of you getting walked out of this building in bracelets to finally get it?’”
John, singing: This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it SHINE!
“It’s a bet. If Second City really lets Rod Blagojevich join the cast of “Rod Blagojevich, Superstar”, you can put handcuffs on me and perp walk me all the way across the Senate floor, because DeLeo says it’s never gonna happen!”
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:03 pm:
the answer is no we cant. do you got it? Do you want to practive with me?
- montrose - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:04 pm:
John, for the millionth time, I am not playing patty cake with you.
- Downstate weed chewing hick - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:06 pm:
I keep telling you, THUMBS OUT. No one will believe you are a fighter with fists like that.
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:07 pm:
John: Pick which hand money for the GOP is in
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:07 pm:
The itsy, bitsy budget went up the Leaders spout. Down came the Governor and washed the budget out….
- lefty - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:08 pm:
John: You can handcuff me if I’m lying to you.
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:08 pm:
You’re getting sleepy…..very….very….sleepy.
- Jim Rockford - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:08 pm:
Rod went like this, they slapped the cuffs on him, yada yada yada, I’m the new Senate President.
- George - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:13 pm:
Sen. Cullerton: Its a T-Shirt, with our pictures on it. $15 bucks a piece. I can order them for your whole caucus.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:17 pm:
Keep it clean, people. I’m in no mood to police you today.
- Steve - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:23 pm:
Rock, scissors ,paper.
- The Doc - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:28 pm:
Guess which hand I’m holding my magic fairy dust?
- trafficmatt - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:29 pm:
“The party was great. The band started playing ‘Macarena’, and they gave me these two maracas and I got to lead the Conga line. Da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da da. It was a hoot”
- G-hack - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:31 pm:
I’m gonna need those TPS reports by the end of the day, MmmKay.
- dupage progressive - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:43 pm:
Ok John, but this is the last time today I’ll sing “Sunddenly Seymour” to you. People will talk about our meeting in the back of the chamber to sing songs from “Little Shop of Horrors”…
- one observer - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:44 pm:
“Now I’ll count to three and watch what appears when I open my hands”
- TominChicago - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 12:58 pm:
“….Open the door and there’s the people.”
- ivoted4judy - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:05 pm:
You don’t want me to sic DeLeo on you do you?
- Hipster doofus - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:09 pm:
please give me five votes for the tax increase
- BigDog - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:14 pm:
One last time, okay? Here’s the church, …..
- Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:16 pm:
Ironically, Cullerton is displaying a hand symbol which resembles the American Sign Language sign for “more”. If you doubt, look it up. It’s pretty close. Whether they are discussing more pork or more taxes is anyone’s guess.
- anon - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:19 pm:
and now i will put my thumb back together.
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:22 pm:
“Chris, I gotta tell ya, this guy Collins is a creep. Every time I had to tell him another of his little Commission ideas wasn’t gonna make it, he’d take his hands like this and say, ‘Is it going to take a few of you getting walked out of this building in bracelets to finally get it?’”
- Anon14 - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:23 pm:
John: “So, you see, we just give Quinn enough line, then ‘bam’ with reel him back in!”
- Third Generation Chicago Native - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:29 pm:
I don’t want to do anything that will cause the DOJ to wake me up at 4 AM and put handcuffs on me and take me away to the pokey.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:32 pm:
Rumba!
- reality hits home - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:40 pm:
No, no, no Chris, you misunderstood me. All that talk about being bipartisan was just for the media.
- WOW - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:44 pm:
John: See in public we stand side by side and talk about being bi-partisan … but the rest of the time I think we both agree that we hate each other?
Radogno: Not even in public anymore Johnny boy!
- make it so - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:58 pm:
John, singing: This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it SHINE!
- vole - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 1:58 pm:
“We could try dowsing for billions.”
- Irish - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 2:05 pm:
Anon14 - you beat me to it. I also noticed the position of the hands as if reeling in.
GOP leader Ragdano - “John, we have to come up with something, the natives are getting restless.
John, absent-mindedly picking his thumbnail - thinking to self “I wonder what a taratula tastes like? Chicken?”
- Concerned Observer - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 2:11 pm:
“See, when I was writing Phantom of the Opera, I had someone like you in mind for the role of Christine.”
(what, you don’t think he looks like Andrew Lloyd Webber?)
- just sayin - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 2:25 pm:
You complete me.
- RightGirl - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 2:35 pm:
“Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open the door…”
- Das Man - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 3:05 pm:
…OK, OK… knit…purl…rats! We’re just spinning a yarn…
- Flabbergasted - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 3:15 pm:
When you are sewing a hem, you really have to take small stitches.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 3:18 pm:
“Come on! A fundraiser will work! I can make brownies.”
- montrose - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 3:20 pm:
“I’m a little tea pot, short and stout…”
- Anon - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 3:52 pm:
Chris, if you don’t tone it down I’m going to sick my gerbil on you.
- South Sider - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 5:10 pm:
Rod told me the FBI woke him up one morning asked him to hold up his hands like this…..
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 6:49 pm:
“It’s a bet. If Second City really lets Rod Blagojevich join the cast of “Rod Blagojevich, Superstar”, you can put handcuffs on me and perp walk me all the way across the Senate floor, because DeLeo says it’s never gonna happen!”
- grategul - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 8:08 pm:
Just Wondering
Where Jay Hoffman has been ?????
Since HOT Rod is Gone !!!!!
- long time state worker - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 8:20 pm:
John-Uh yeah of course I always wash my hands…
- Plain Talk - Tuesday, Jun 9, 09 @ 8:36 pm:
You’ve got the Super Majority, act like it.
Whose wearing the skirt here, John. Be a man.
Your caucus members keep voting in new programs and it’s time to pay the piper