Madigan and Cullerton react to the latest taped Blagojevich call entered into evidence, in which the former governor wishes the two would do something both disgusting and physically impossible.
-or-
The Speaker and Senate President realize that Madigan indeed looks like Conan O’Brien at age 60.
-or-
The leaders of Illinois’ legislature react to Rich Miller’s announcement that he will physically lock them in the State House while pumping in endless loops of Carlos Zambrano-pitched games from the last 3 years until they pass a sustainable budget once and for all.
12 year old Suzy Student addresses a joint session of the General Assembly;
“I am so proud to speak here in the House chamber. This is where all of our laws are voted on for the good of our state. Here is where our representative vote on what is best for all of us, and do what is needed for all of us to feel safe and secure”
“See, John, if I hit this button I can turn Dunkin’s microphone off. Somebody has to keep him from winning that fourth Century Club trophy.
“Now this button, I use a couple of times a day. It’s wired right into Lang’s chair. One little push and Lou is zapped with a mild electrical shock, prompting him to stand up and deliver extra-long speeches because he doesn’t want to sit down again. Pretty cool, eh?
“But this button is my favorite. It releases a special mind-numbing gas into the chamber. They don’t know what they’re voting for! Ah, I love my life.”
Cullerton, “If you look how we did the budget in ‘Sims3 - Leisure Suit Legislator’, this budget mess would be over if we … oh, we reset the game before it ended.”
Lets lock the door on this crap house and go home. Put Quinn’s name on the door — Quinn’s Funeral Parlor. “You got a ride back on the state plane?”
“There’s a photographer. Put a frown on your face!”
Madigan: John, I can’t believe we were able to pull it off getting you elected Senate President. Now I control both chambers. Hopefully Brady is elected Governor and we are both good for at least another decade.
Madigan: ‘John, I forgive you for starting your own tax appeal law firm and taking some of my tax appeal business from my law firm. I told Ed Burke I forgive him too. I am still seeing my pastor weekly though so I can finally forgive LaPaille for his sins.
All they got from Leaders was protection from other guys looking to take their seat. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what the FBI can never understand - that what the Leaders and the Democratic organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can’t face the voters. They’re like the police department for politicians.
So if we extend the bill payment cycle to 13 months, we never have to fool with this budget crap ever again! Bwa-ha-ha (cue thunder clap) or
Batman and Robin (Batman built his own powers and Robin rides the coattails)
- Way Way Down Here - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:57 pm:
Frustrated, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that post.
Madigan: John I must admit I do have a soft spot in my heart for Quinn. If it were not for his 1980 referendum empowering the leadership, I would have never been this rich and powerful.
- Moving to Oklahoma - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 12:59 pm:
what smells?
- Tom B. - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:00 pm:
“Thank God session is over so Miller finally cleans up.”
- Hugh G. Rection - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:00 pm:
Hey Moe, where’s Shemp?
- been there - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:01 pm:
the money. ponder on the money.
the majority. ponder on the majority.
- IL Yeezy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:01 pm:
“I can’t believe he picked Miami either.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:02 pm:
Speaker Madigan and President Cullerton repond to the Sergeat At Arms …
“Mr. Speaker, … His Excellency, the Governor of the state of Illinois, Scott Lee Cohen”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
Pat Quinn:
“…and I also prepose a further reduction of members of the General Assembly …”
- Corey - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
Do you think Rod liked your tie or my tie better?
- Anonymous ZZZ - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
“Okay, seriously? Instead of talking about the budget, this goof wants to talk about where we got our ties?”
- washedmyhands - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
“This sure ain’t no end of session party - more like my first wake for a FY budget.”
- Easy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:04 pm:
Yep, there’s going to be a lot more room on our sides of the aisles next year.
- Dan S, a taxpayer and a Cubs Fan - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:05 pm:
Dumb & Dumber
- Anonymous ZZZ - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:05 pm:
Corey, great minds think alike. I hadn’t seen your comment yet when I posted mine.
- frustrated GOP - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:10 pm:
You mean we really owe that. I didn’t think eveyone was serious, wow, now what?
- the life - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:10 pm:
the speaker and president react to seeing Illinois file for bankruptcy.
- Interested Observer - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:11 pm:
MJM “I don’t care what they want, we will not sing a chorus of Koom By Yah!”
- raising kane - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:11 pm:
Yeah, that bathroom in the back…did you see him come out of there…or is he still hiding?
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:12 pm:
I’ll be darned, right there it is, the constitution does say we’re supposed to balance the thing…
- George - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:12 pm:
Speaker Madigan and President Cullerton watch the Lebron James special “The Decision” on Thursday night.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:12 pm:
Madigan, whispering, “I never thought I would say this, but I miss Jim Edgar …oh well”
- Pickles!! - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:13 pm:
Emperor Palpatine, (Madigan) and Darth Vader (Cullerton) stand in the control room of the Death Star orbiting above the State Capitol.
“What should we destroy next in Illinois?,” Vader asks his master.
“Wipe everything out. We have no money to pay for stuff anyway,” The emperor laughs.
Then a massive laser hits the state, eliminating hundreds of millins of dollars for school funding, pensions, and other programs.
“So it is done,” Madigan, i mean the emperor, laughs….
- anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:14 pm:
Tweedle DEE and Tweedle Dum
- raising kane - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:15 pm:
So, if you had a lifeboat and you only had room for one of them….oh, wait, the feds stopped us from playing that game. F em all!!!
- South Side Mike - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:21 pm:
Madigan and Cullerton react to the latest taped Blagojevich call entered into evidence, in which the former governor wishes the two would do something both disgusting and physically impossible.
-or-
The Speaker and Senate President realize that Madigan indeed looks like Conan O’Brien at age 60.
-or-
The leaders of Illinois’ legislature react to Rich Miller’s announcement that he will physically lock them in the State House while pumping in endless loops of Carlos Zambrano-pitched games from the last 3 years until they pass a sustainable budget once and for all.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:23 pm:
What if we add another zero to that debt figure?
- fedup - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:24 pm:
“The Tribune? Tomorrow? Us, on taped calls?….huh”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:24 pm:
12 year old Suzy Student addresses a joint session of the General Assembly;
“I am so proud to speak here in the House chamber. This is where all of our laws are voted on for the good of our state. Here is where our representative vote on what is best for all of us, and do what is needed for all of us to feel safe and secure”
- Jake from Elwood - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:25 pm:
The “Big Apple” and the “Second City”.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:26 pm:
“See, John, if I hit this button I can turn Dunkin’s microphone off. Somebody has to keep him from winning that fourth Century Club trophy.
“Now this button, I use a couple of times a day. It’s wired right into Lang’s chair. One little push and Lou is zapped with a mild electrical shock, prompting him to stand up and deliver extra-long speeches because he doesn’t want to sit down again. Pretty cool, eh?
“But this button is my favorite. It releases a special mind-numbing gas into the chamber. They don’t know what they’re voting for! Ah, I love my life.”
- Just wondering - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:34 pm:
Madigan: “John, Do you think we can still get Rich Miller on the ballet in November for Gov?”
- Pat Robertson - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:36 pm:
“I’ll take ‘Worst Budgets Ever’ for $100, Alex.”
- Upstate - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:36 pm:
Now that we’ve finally bankrupted the state, this really isn’t that fun anymore, is it?
- Betsy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:37 pm:
Where do you get your botox, John?
- The REAL Anonymous fka Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:42 pm:
Wow! I said THAT?
And it’s on tape?!!!
- Velma D. - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:44 pm:
Well, here’s a another nice mess you’ve gotten me into.
- MrJM - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:47 pm:
Now look… Look! Right there! That was so totally a goal!”
– MrJM
- The End Is Near - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:47 pm:
“Any chance Obama can parachute us out of here with ambassador jobs?”
- Eileen Left - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:48 pm:
Time to start working on the map,the map,the map.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:51 pm:
The state has been destroyed…our plan is complete.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:54 pm:
Cullerton, “If you look how we did the budget in ‘Sims3 - Leisure Suit Legislator’, this budget mess would be over if we … oh, we reset the game before it ended.”
- Amalia - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:55 pm:
The Godfather and the Godfather
- Mister IL - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 1:55 pm:
John: Mr. Speaker, it’s strange to see you with your hand in your own pocket for a change.
- Irish - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:00 pm:
Oh look a kitty
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:01 pm:
Madigan, “There’s sometihng you don’t see everyday … Lang and Black thumb-wrestling …”
Cullerton, “You should see Hendon and Holmes play ‘rock-paper-scissors’…
Madigan, “Really????”
- Loop Lady - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:02 pm:
ala Luca Brasi…”thank you Don Corleone for inviting me to your home on the occasion of your Daughter’s wedding”…
- Vole - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:04 pm:
Lets lock the door on this crap house and go home. Put Quinn’s name on the door — Quinn’s Funeral Parlor. “You got a ride back on the state plane?”
“There’s a photographer. Put a frown on your face!”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:05 pm:
Madigan beats Cullerton to the buzzer in the House-Senate edition of Family Feud.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:07 pm:
Madigan, “Ok, I get Currie, Lang, and Burke … you can take you pick of the others”
Cullerton, “Maybe if we draw out a couple of these ‘ya-hoos’ I could get some House members from you”
Madigan, “What? You are going to mess with MY map?”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:07 pm:
Speaker Madigan and Senate President Cullerton watch a White Sox game on Cullerton’s new iPad during Pat Quinn’s budget speech.
- Lefty - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:21 pm:
DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS!
- Independent Minded Dem - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:23 pm:
Its Pinky and the Brain……..
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:23 pm:
“Madigoons???”
- HatShopGirl - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:25 pm:
MM: “Is there enough to cover this payroll?”
JC: “Barely.”
And ‘hat-tip’ to
Rich Miller @ 1:26pm.
Oswego Willy @ 1:02pm.
Small Town Liberal @ 1:12pm.
- DzNuts - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:27 pm:
MJM and Cullerton standing at the political morgue:
“Hard to believe just 18 months ago he was standing in front of the Senate telling us he was innocent.”
“They sure did a good job making his hair look natural”.
- Ben Gazzara - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:27 pm:
“Ready?”
“Yeah. You ready?”
“Yeah.”
“OK. 5…4…3…2…..”
- "Old Timer Dem" - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:30 pm:
Madigan: John, I can’t believe we were able to pull it off getting you elected Senate President. Now I control both chambers. Hopefully Brady is elected Governor and we are both good for at least another decade.
- Yukon - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:33 pm:
Has anyone really missed having a lieutenant governor?
- Majority of Me - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:33 pm:
“Did he say ‘Soy Boy’?”
- siriusly - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:36 pm:
Let’s use our heat-ray-vision to burn “kick me” into the back of Quinn’s head.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:38 pm:
“I got an idea. Why don’t we give the Governor ‘extraordinary’ executive power to move money around?”
“Isn’t that what we were complaining about 2 years ago?”
- "Old Timer Dem" - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:43 pm:
Madigan: ‘John, I forgive you for starting your own tax appeal law firm and taking some of my tax appeal business from my law firm. I told Ed Burke I forgive him too. I am still seeing my pastor weekly though so I can finally forgive LaPaille for his sins.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:46 pm:
All they got from Leaders was protection from other guys looking to take their seat. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what the FBI can never understand - that what the Leaders and the Democratic organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can’t face the voters. They’re like the police department for politicians.
- Vote Quimby! - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:55 pm:
So if we extend the bill payment cycle to 13 months, we never have to fool with this budget crap ever again! Bwa-ha-ha (cue thunder clap) or
Batman and Robin (Batman built his own powers and Robin rides the coattails)
- Way Way Down Here - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 2:57 pm:
Frustrated, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that post.
- Day Late - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 3:09 pm:
Staring into the abyss.
It’s big and deep.
When you don’t know what to do: do nothing
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 3:09 pm:
Thanks HatShopGirl …
- Honest Abe - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 3:24 pm:
John, I told you that my firm does not defend DUI cases. Now, stop pestering me in my box seats at the Cell.
- magoo - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 3:24 pm:
Let’s move to North Dakota I understand they finished the year in the black. Just think of the fun we could have there.
- rick - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 3:35 pm:
“You mean we really have to make a decision”
- Thoughts... - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:03 pm:
47th Ward wins
My lame entry:
“Governor Bill Brady takes the oath of office as Madigan and Cullerton look on”
- Irish - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:09 pm:
Abbott & Costello take a look at the budget.
Abbott (MJM) “now you are saying that 7 X 13 is 28?”
Costello (Cullerton) ” sure, so we have more money than we thought!”
- really?? - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:12 pm:
So that’s what Sarah Palin looks like in a bikini
- zatoichi - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:12 pm:
Look, Coney Island just got chili cheese footlongs…
- Irish - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:17 pm:
I guess for my last post @ 4:09 to make sense you have to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W7XJ41JPSc
- Ahoy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:18 pm:
Cullerton: I hate these things, why does he do a budget address again? It’s not like we ever take them into consideration.
Madigan: It’s in the Constitution, now straighten up and look like you’re paying attention.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:29 pm:
Madigan, “Who is that talking - He can’t talk to our Mushrooms like that…”
Cullerton, “… Only WE can talk our Mushrooms like that!”
- Old Timer Dem - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:38 pm:
Heheheeheheeeheheheeh! “WORLD DOMINATION’
- Old Timer Dem - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:43 pm:
Madigan: John I must admit I do have a soft spot in my heart for Quinn. If it were not for his 1980 referendum empowering the leadership, I would have never been this rich and powerful.
- Old Timer Dem - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:47 pm:
Madigan: John, I didn’t realize you were shorter than me. An added bonus. No one will confuse you for Emil that’s for sure.
- anonymous - Friday, Jul 9, 10 @ 4:51 pm:
(Indian Names)
“SitsOnHands” and “TwiddlesThumbs”