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Question of the day
Monday, Jun 13, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller * As the Rod Blagojevich jurors deliberate, let’s take a peek at Jim Warren’s column about former Mayor Daley…
* The Question: What one word would you use to sum up Rod Blagojevich’s tenure as governor?
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- been there - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:21 am:
irresponsible.
- OneMan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:21 am:
Craptacular
- tubbfan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:22 am:
trainwreck
- bored now - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:23 am:
grabby.
- The End Is Near - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:23 am:
Wiretapped.
- in Paris - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:23 am:
payme
- Bluefish - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:24 am:
Really?!?!?!?!?
- Cincinnatus - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:24 am:
Typical.
- x ace - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:28 am:
Louisiana ?
- ProfessorChaos - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:30 am:
felonious
- Stones - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:30 am:
Disaster!
- Palatine - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:30 am:
Sad
- CircularFiringSquad - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:31 am:
sociopath…do we need to post the diagnosis again?
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:34 am:
Derelict
- IrishPirate - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:34 am:
LANUGINOUS
adj \lə-ˈnü-jə-nəs, -ˈnyü-\
: covered with down or fine soft hair : downy
- Loop Lady - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:36 am:
as Lewis Black would say, “DELUSIONAL”…
- JustMe - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:38 am:
megalomaniacal
- Joe from Joliet - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:38 am:
Blah.
- Springfield - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:39 am:
Embarrassing
- just sayin' - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:39 am:
immature
- bea attitude - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:41 am:
Democrat
- Farker - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:42 am:
Ironic
- Way Way Down Here - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:42 am:
Fulsome
- Coach - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:43 am:
Delirious.
- What's in a name? - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:44 am:
Felonious
- Been There - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:47 am:
Silly.
Silly. Silly. Silly. Did I say Silly? Just Silly. Silliness. Silly. I’m sorry you said one word. Silly.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:48 am:
Clown.
- Wumpus - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:48 am:
as Cincinattus said..Typical
- LincolnLounger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:48 am:
Follicular.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:49 am:
Impeached.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:50 am:
Megalomaniacal
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:50 am:
Mellacious.
- Kerfuffle - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:51 am:
obstreperous
- Lycurgus - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:52 am:
Brilliantine
- sidepocket - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:53 am:
Incompetent
- Nuance - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:55 am:
Bill
- Montrose - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:56 am:
Suphaircalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Farker - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:56 am:
Embarrassing
- Levois - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:57 am:
failure
- Ghost - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:58 am:
calculated
- Phineas J. Whoopee - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:58 am:
mistake
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:59 am:
Speakered.
- Lincoln's Penny - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:06 pm:
Egomanical.
- KGB - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:06 pm:
Fired!
- Been There - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:08 pm:
Hairfull
- Esquire - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:10 pm:
Narcissistic.
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:10 pm:
Reelected?
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:12 pm:
Reelected
- ANON - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:13 pm:
Golden
- Birdseed - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:14 pm:
Madigooned.
- Superfan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:16 pm:
Guity.
- OneMan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:16 pm:
Schadenfreude
- Superfan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:16 pm:
Sorry, that’s Guilty!
- jt - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:19 pm:
aberration
- Lefty - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:20 pm:
pathetic
- TomD - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:21 pm:
Spectacle.
- mc - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:23 pm:
Golden!
- Plutocrat03 - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:23 pm:
Hairtacular
- And I Approved This Message - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:23 pm:
Tiresome.
- Gregor - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:25 pm:
mendacious
- Damfunny - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:25 pm:
DESPARATE!
- Anon-Partisan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:29 pm:
Pyrite
- Lil Enchilada - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:32 pm:
Shameful
- Cheswick - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:41 pm:
Notorious.
- zatoichi - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:45 pm:
Checkmated
- olddog - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:46 pm:
(bleeping)
- Irish - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:52 pm:
As Dave Letterman would say. - What?!!!
- Ghost of John Brown - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:53 pm:
Schadenfreude
- Nuclear Bozo - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:53 pm:
Blagospheric
- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 12:55 pm:
Sinister
- Rod sez I'm pork - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:02 pm:
Nemesis
(in the ancient Greek meaning, not the modern one)
- Fred - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:02 pm:
Golden. I think Rich got it with Speakered. Wacked good by the velvet hammer. Can you even win these?
- Steve Downstate - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:04 pm:
Foolhardy
- Leatherneck - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:05 pm:
Elvis
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:05 pm:
Incom-peached!
- Justice - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:06 pm:
Avarice or Covetousness.
At least those are words I can use on this honorable blog. Ask me in person and I’ll make a sailor blush.
- Louis G. Atsaves - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:08 pm:
Greedy
- one day at a time - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:12 pm:
Blagojeviched
When you are accused of something that you’ve done wrong and want to deny the accusation that is obviously true.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blagojeviched
- MT - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:12 pm:
Travesty
- chip carrey - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:14 pm:
And there’s john cusack
- Rudykzooti - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:17 pm:
Hairball
- Son of a Centrist - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:25 pm:
OVER
- I wonder... - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:25 pm:
Wasted
- Wensicia - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:31 pm:
Surreal
I would use the same word to describe the trial.
- JN - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:31 pm:
Typical
- Southern Lady - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:40 pm:
Nauseating
- Southwest Cook - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:45 pm:
Hubris
- Jake From Elwood - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:47 pm:
Buffoonery
- Agricola - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:50 pm:
kleptocratic
- Boone Logan Square - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:54 pm:
Milhoused
- Commonsense in Illinois - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 1:56 pm:
Waste
- Homer J. Simpson - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:00 pm:
≠
- digger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:00 pm:
Weaselicious
- Lefty Lefty - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:01 pm:
Chicago
- Joe from Joliet - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:03 pm:
Puffery
- Northside Blogger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:10 pm:
Kingdomless
- Hawkeye - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:25 pm:
DISASTROUS
- Concerned Voter - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:29 pm:
Duh
- Gunga Dinner - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:29 pm:
Nixony
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:29 pm:
Hubris
- One of the 35 - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:30 pm:
hedonistic
- Concerned Voter - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:30 pm:
or maybe quagmire
- UIS 11 - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:33 pm:
*bleeped*
- siriusly - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:34 pm:
Bigheaded
- just sayin' - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:34 pm:
Winning.
Oh sorry, that’s from Charlie Sheen.
- nino brown - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:39 pm:
embarrassing
- A Citizen - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:45 pm:
Hairbrain
- Cheryl44 - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:48 pm:
hubristastic
- Spring - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:50 pm:
demoralizing
- derp - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:55 pm:
I’d say “Cajun”, but former Governor Edwards would not be happy…
- Name Withheld - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:57 pm:
Testicular
- Bill - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:58 pm:
vainglorious
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:59 pm:
WORSETHANRYAN
- unclesam - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:59 pm:
Punked
All of us — the whole state — PUNKED by Blago
- He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:59 pm:
Crooked
- Esquire - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 2:59 pm:
Convicted.
- Dan the Cubs Fan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:14 pm:
dumpsterfire
- Just the Facts - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:16 pm:
Travashamockery
- A Citizen - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:17 pm:
Felonyossiter
- gathersno - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:18 pm:
Harried
- VanillaMan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:22 pm:
Self-immolation
- Vote Quimby! - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:22 pm:
Schadenfreude.
- "Rich Miller" - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:23 pm:
Lucrative!
- Just the Facts - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:25 pm:
Penitentiary
- Anonymous ZZZ - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:26 pm:
Self-serving (if it has a hyphen in it, can it be considered one word? If not, then I’ll go with “opportunistic.”)
- Miss Marie - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:28 pm:
wow . . . just wow
- one day at a time - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:33 pm:
(H)airbrushed
- Got the t-shirt... - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:33 pm:
Kakistocratic.
- Tommydanger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:35 pm:
Shameless.
- HoosierDaddy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:36 pm:
Execrable.
- Statewide - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:42 pm:
T-R-O-U-B-L-E
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:43 pm:
Rod Blagbrokovich
- WhoKnew - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 3:46 pm:
FLUFF!!
- A.J. Feeley's Clipboard - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:05 pm:
Star-crossed.
- Marty - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:11 pm:
catastrophe
- Not a Newcomer - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:21 pm:
Disappointing (so many people had such high hopes when he won in 2002)
- Retired Non-Union Guy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:25 pm:
chutzpah
- Cheesehead in Chicago - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:26 pm:
ShakespearianTragedy
- Say WHAT? - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:28 pm:
Toast
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:33 pm:
Cannolied!
- Retired Non-Union Guy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:38 pm:
k’nocker
see:
http://www.ijn.com/editorial/586-vintage-knocker-in-the-state-of-illinois
- sidepocket - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:43 pm:
Pickled! (in keeping with the latest food themes)
- coco - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:43 pm:
Priceless !!!!!
- Kosinski - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 4:47 pm:
commonplace
- Bill - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:00 pm:
Rodomized
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:09 pm:
“Fitzgerald-ed”
Pick one, the other or both!
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:23 pm:
Billed.
- OneMan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:26 pm:
suckage
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:43 pm:
floccinaucinihilipilification
- stormannorman - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 5:56 pm:
Disengaged !!
- reform - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 6:05 pm:
self-centered
spoilsman
- Can't Say My Nickname - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 6:09 pm:
Ghost-payroller
- blonde moment - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 6:42 pm:
odious
- waitress practing politics... - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 7:05 pm:
expensive
- Leatherneck - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 7:23 pm:
Hunkahunkaburninglove (of power and health care, that is)
- Anon - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 7:26 pm:
FUBAR
- JustaJoe - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 7:30 pm:
double-cross
- Illiniwick - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 7:39 pm:
Inmate
- Geneseo Gent - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:10 pm:
Reelected
- Hawkeye - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:10 pm:
Was going toward Debacle, but I have to vote for FUBAR. That’s what we were during and still after the Reign of Terror.
- Newsclown - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:11 pm:
Pyrrhic.
- carreer bureaucrat - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:13 pm:
Hypocritical
- Mike Murray - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:41 pm:
===Speakered===
LOL. That has to be the winner…
- Huh? - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:47 pm:
Political puffery
- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:47 pm:
–Author: Arthur Andersen
Comment:
Billed.–
Is that the original and authentic A.A? I hope so. Sharpest knife in the drawer.
If so, God knows we could use your wisdom, brother.
Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Rich has the only intelligent blog out there, but Lord knows your brains and experience are missed.
- been there before - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 8:54 pm:
Corrupt.
- Macoupin Observer - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 9:10 pm:
Loser!
- stuckinthemiddlewithyou - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 10:28 pm:
Crackpot!
- Michelle Flaherty - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:12 pm:
representative
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:23 pm:
Long
(Hello, AA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- Anon - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:30 pm:
Delusional
- dupage dan - Monday, Jun 13, 11 @ 11:32 pm:
kingfisher