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Question of the day
Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller * The photo is of Gov. Pat Quinn on the right and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels - the man who loves to hate on Illinois - on the left. The photo was taken yesterday during the Illiana Expressway press conference…  * The Question: Caption?
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- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:14 pm:
“By my calculation, we should have enough funds to buy Illinois next year, Pat! Just stop spending so much, so we can nail down the price.”
- Sewanee - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:15 pm:
“The Illiana Expressway will allow businesses to flee to Indiana with a new level of efficiency!”
- Bring Back Boone's - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:15 pm:
Governor Quinn out of the side of his mouth- “Isn’t Indiana the armpit of the nation?”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:16 pm:
“Mitch, can we export some of our bills your way?”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:17 pm:
“You’re paying cash to build the Indiana side of the Expressway? What’s cash?”
- LincolnLounger - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:18 pm:
Have I mentioned that Indiana has a surplus?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:18 pm:
It’s nice to finally meet a governor with even less charisma than me.
- Rollin' - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
It’s ok, Mitch. Someday you too might be the Governor of a real state!
- Judgment Day Is On The Way - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
Wow, we sure don’t want to catch what Illinois has”
Btw, all those Navistar vehicles in the parking lot over at the Capitol - nothing for you IL folks to worry about….
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
“You see Mitch, we just don’t take counting as seriously as you do. It’s nature’s way. We spend what you save, creating the balance needed in nature. You save a billion, I spent two billions. What I want to know is, can you save even more, because I have a campaign to lose over here. Get Christie on the phone, and let’s see if you guys can save me a few billion more.”
- govjeffm - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:22 pm:
Quinn(through gritted teeth) “How much more of this bull s@#t do I have to listen to?”
- Vote Quimby! - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:22 pm:
Instead of repairing the skyway, let’s build a brand new road!
- Anon - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:23 pm:
Hey Mitch, you guys raised taxes and already have a higher income tax than Illinois, and you also have a balanced budget. Would you mind explaining that to the rest of Illinois?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:24 pm:
Did you hear that Navistar named Indiana “Government of the Year”, and Illinois “Governor of “We’re Otta Here”"?
- John - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:24 pm:
How’s your friend Blago doing?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:25 pm:
“Sure! First you make extensive spending cuts to let citizens know you take their money seriously, then you tell them exactly where the increased taxes are going and not put them into the General Fund! You treat voters like adults, and they will pay their way!”
- Pete Mitchell - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:26 pm:
On behalf of the Hoosiers, thanks for the low speed limits, high taxes, and smokeless casinos.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:27 pm:
“Hey Mitch, can I see what a dollar looks like?”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:28 pm:
“Mitch, I’m facing a candidate that wants to be like you, but is more like me.”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:31 pm:
“Pat, will you guys be paving your side of the Expressway? Who did the Pay to Play thing to get the contracts?”
- Irish - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:31 pm:
PQ - Have I showed you the new thing I learned in ballet? It’s called the pleia in first position. You start with your head to the side and your hands like this and you put your feet……….
- Rollin' - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:31 pm:
Geez VMan, how long have you been saving these up?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:33 pm:
“Pat, by our latest budget estimates, we can let you move to Indianapolis and be our governor for 6 minutes. Then we gotta cut you loose because it would take us another six months of budget cuts to pay for those six minutes.”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:34 pm:
“Pat, I ride in the seat of a Harley, and you look like you ride in the seat at Hardees.”
- Anon-a-miss - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:36 pm:
“She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got huge…tracts of land!”
- Irish - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:36 pm:
Mitch - yak yak yak, Indiana, yak yak yak balanced budget, yak yak yak……………
PQ - Gotta go, gotta go,
- Ghost - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:37 pm:
“So you take the water balloon to the overpass, an you hold it like this…..
- South Side Mike - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:38 pm:
Daniels: “…and mailbags of business tax revenue grew by this much after orders like the one by your Department of Corrections for ammo.”
Quinn: “Yeah, but at least I don’t live in a state located next to Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois!”
- lakeview - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:40 pm:
Look, we can get this deal, I just need to make sure I’m taken care of. How about if we create an “office of the governor” for a year, then I agree to an early retirement with a parachute of $100 million or so. My bankers helped First Chicago, Wrigley, Quaker, and Helene Curtis sell to people outside the state, and they said that this will work well. The people of Illinois will find that they like being Hoosiers, even if they complain a lot at first. They shop at Macy’s, don’t they?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:40 pm:
“Believe it or not Pat! I’m wearing one now! Here’s how you make a men’s suit out of recycled dryer lint - first, you take a ball of dryer lint about his big…”
- South Side Mike - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:44 pm:
“Do you need a Lt. Governor? Do you? I mean, I’ll stay out of the way, hold a meaningless press conference once in a while, smile uncomfortably while you tell meaningless stories… What do you say? I’ll be available to start in about 8 months!”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:46 pm:
“What we plan to do is finish the Illiana, then pave over Gary with an O’Hare replacement. Then we’re changing the name of Northwestern Indiana to “New Chicago” and start building a new city center to replace the Loop.”
“We’ll be done about 2022 - tops, and save about half a trillion by employing children to do all the construction - we lowered the age you can be employed here in Indiana to 5 - with parental consent of course. And they have to be Christian.”
- Stooges - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:52 pm:
You twerpy little hoosier.
- Steve - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:52 pm:
Pat, keep Illinois the same! We want Illinois smoking bans in casinos. We want strong Illinois unions. We want high Illinois taxes. We love Illinois, please go to a progressive income tax with a top rate of 11% on people making over $250,000.
- Betsy - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 12:54 pm:
“Pat, if I were as tall as you, no one would know I am bald. You should really look into the combover. It could help you with those women voter poll numbers of yours that are in the tank.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:02 pm:
“… and then Rod said the punchline, ‘Hey look, it’s Mayor Daley’ to me…You’re not going to tell me a lame joke, are ya Pat? If you do, I will roll you into a ball…”
- Njardar - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:02 pm:
PQ: By building this road we will make it easier for industry and jobs already leaving Illinois to make it to Indiana sooner.
- Simon - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
“Hey Quinn, you’re photographer sure does take nice photos and make sweet videos for you.”
- Simon - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:05 pm:
“Yeah Daniels, but he doesn’t know how the difference between your and you’re.”
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:07 pm:
“It’s true Lincoln’s boyhood home was in Indiana, but he left as soon as he could when he got older. Never went back, either. That happens a lot there, doesn’t it Mitch.?”
“Surplus? I got your surplus right here.”
- Finger Pointing - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:09 pm:
Can you believe Mark Kirk made up all that stuff?
- Endorsement - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:11 pm:
“Pat you are the greatest economic development tool Indiana has ever seen. You have my full endorsement for a second term!”
- Anon - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:12 pm:
You see, we have this thing in Indianapolis that we call Illinois and it has been bleeping golden for us!!!
- Me - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:13 pm:
Pat: “I never thought the over comb hair style made a comeback. I’ll definitely use it for veto session.”
Mitch: “Yes, and you’ll need a comb this big…”
- Third Generation Chicago Native - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:22 pm:
And when everyone leaves Illinois, especially whole families (hence the way his hand are showing this) to come to Indiana, you won’t have to worry about big class sizes anymore and you can lay off more teachers.
- Hank - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:24 pm:
“Pat, you really need to grow a set this big and follow through with something, anything”
- dupage dan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:28 pm:
PQ: Yeah, I know, you got the Colts and that college basketball history and the brickyard. But we got…I mean we got…I know, we got better fishing!
Mitch: How so, Pat?
PQ: Well, we got Rod and we’re Reelin’!”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:31 pm:
“So, Pat, did you hear that Indiana is actually growing new jobs and folks are now moving into Indiana? I hear we got a new truckload of jobs from Navistar the other day. Something about how the state they were dealing with just wasted their time, and now they are calling them up offering them millions to reconsider.”
“Heard about that? Gee Pat, which state would be so stupid to let a plum like Navistar fall out of their hands?”
“I’ll give you three guesses. Want a clue? OK - one of us is from that state. Anything? Want another clue? OK - it begins with the letter “I”, like the word “idiot” Anything?”
“Ok-Ok, last clue. It was Illinois. Your state! LOSER!”
- Segatari - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:37 pm:
Indiana is thriving under conservatism, Illinois has bankrupted itself under liberalism.
- prairiestatedem - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:43 pm:
This marks a new turn in the life of my state Pat, just think how many more Hoosiers can learn to read now.
- just sayin' - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:50 pm:
Quinn laughs uncomfortably as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels performs “The Robot.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 1:53 pm:
“What we do, Pat, is we pack all the tax increases, and state issues and Chicago issues you have there in Illinois, and make a huge collage, and when a company *cough* Navistar *cough* gets ready to make a move to Illinois, we just send that perdy collage to the CEO with… one of my business cards … and a state fiscal outlook binder…then that’s when the ‘magic’ begins!”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:03 pm:
“so I sent one of my aides to Our capitol chambers, and he measured the Indiana House Chamber, and then he measured the Indiana Senate chamber … then I had him take my whole Economic Development team to the IL State House and IL State Senate in Springfield, and we noticed they were the same dimensions as the state chambers back home … Now Pat, our legislative team knows 3 things, tax breaks, basketball, and farming, and not necessarily in that order …”
Hickory!
- Responsa - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:10 pm:
So anyways, Pat, Scott Lee Cohen comes up to me with a stack of petitions this big–and I says to him, “Scott, I live in Indiana, and I’m pretty sure you need to get Illinois residents to sign those things for it all to be legal.”
- Downstater - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:12 pm:
Quinn and Daniels compare their “testicular verility” to make hard budget cuts.
- "Clerks" fan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:24 pm:
Pat … you have cojones this big to have stood up to Blago for all those years!
Snark is encouraged I hope.
- Plutocrat03 - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:27 pm:
We have a deal. We buy Chicago, you give us the cash later, but you have to tell Daley he’s out.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:34 pm:
“Hey Mitch, did you know that if you are in my state on your Harley, you don’t have to wear a helmet?”
“Thanks, but I always ride wearing my helmet. I think we have enough brain damaged governors as is.”
PQ: Illinois is larger than Indiana.
MD: Yeah, but Indiana was a state before Illinois.
PQ: Illinois has Chicago.
MD: Yeah, but Indiana has Indianapolis which is growing, not shrinking in population.
PQ: Illinois has the Illinois River.
MD: Yeah, but we have the Wabash.
PQ: We do too, ya know.
MD: Yeah, but the fish in it stay in Indiana.
PQ: We have great pizza in Illinois.
MD: Not south of I-80, you don’t, and anyway, Indiana has the best pork tenderloins.
PQ: Not north of I-80, you don’t.
PQ: Illinois has Presidents Lincoln, Obama and Grant.
MD: Indiana has a whole lotta vice-presidents, not presidents we wish were vice-presidents.
PQ: Illinois borders on the Mississippi.
MD: Indiana borders on Mississippi in educational funding.
PQ: Illinois has the Blackhawks.
MD: OK - you got me there. Oh wait - we got Navistar!
- CircularFiringSquad - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 2:46 pm:
Hey MD you forgot to mention the Michael Jackson Hall of Fame? The now defunct world’s largest RV building zone and a boys basketball team that wear long robes
Yup after all is said and done in it is still Indiana — state where the most famous event is the ride out of town after the Indy 500
p.s. guess Capt Fax censored the CaribouBarbie caption
- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 3:15 pm:
“Let’s hire SDoS”
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 3:53 pm:
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Can you believe Mark Kirk made up all that stuff?
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Can you believe someone felt the need to make up all that stuff–after Mark Kirk did what he really did?!!
Dumb. Just plain dumb.
- Conservative Republican - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 4:06 pm:
MD: “Look, Pat, let me make it simple for you. Get a procedure that surgically removes your liberalism, and THEN you’ve got a shot at being a successful governor.
- Rayne of Terror - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 9:24 pm:
MD: Pat, tell me more about how Illinois has destroyed public education so effectively. The State Superintendent and I are trying our darnest, but Illinois’ results are far ahead of ours. There’s only one solvent school corporation left in Indiana and it’s on the border. Would you like to take Vigo County off our hands?
- HatShopGirl - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 10:26 pm:
Ugh!
We should be building a wall not a road between us and Gary.
I wiki’d (please tell me I did it wrong and we’re really linking with Indiana U in Bloomington) Interstate 65 and it’s the road between Mobile, Alabama and GARY, INDIANA. Did you KNOW that? Why in tarnation are we making it easier for that Mid-West ABCESS known as Gary, Indiana, to have a direct entry into Illinois?
Which political idiot has lined his/her pockets by buying/leasing the tracts of land the interstate will pave-over? Which political idiot has cut deals for leasing 24/7/365 Cholesterol-Filling-Stations/Shacks on each cloverleaf that has a gas station?
Gary has over 50% unemployment. Crime is in the stratosphere. Nothing says ‘urban ghetto’ and “Detroit Redux” like GARY, Indiana.
I don’t want to go to Gary. I want to go to Bloomington. Maybe, just pass through Bloomington. Indiana doesn’t get interesting until you’re way south, in the rolling hills.
Is it too late to stop this nightmare? I bet the Jackson clan, Reverend, Congressman, and Alderman, are getting something out of this deal.
- Visual Manager - Thursday, Jun 10, 10 @ 11:19 pm:
You’ve got about this long left in office… Enjoy!
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 7:45 am:
It’s the whole concept behind compound interest. Or should I explain this to Mike Madigan?
- Festus Hagen - Friday, Jun 11, 10 @ 8:48 am:
Mitch Daniels: You have to put your hands out in front of you, Pat! And, then you actually have to do something with them. You can’t just fold your hands , twiddle your thumbs, and hope for a miracle. You have been listening to Mike Madigan and Cullerton for way too long. No wonder your state is going over a cliff.
Pat Quinn: Now, you tell me!