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90 Comments - Leroy - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:52 am: Quinn on the floor of the CME selling tax breaks. SELL! SELL! SELL! - give me break - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:52 am: this is what is left of the fy 12 budget. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:52 am: “Yatzee!” - South of I-80 - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:52 am: I need four Lollapalooza tickets!!! - Palpatine - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:53 am: And you all said disco was dead. - Gallery Sitter - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:54 am: This issue may not be black and white but the Governors suit sure is. - WOW - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:54 am: Ron Stephens retired, anyone who wants to dance in the street raise your hand? - Mike Huntoon - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:56 am: “I have returned from Germany with peace in our time.” - Samwise - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:56 am: Start Me Up — Pat Quinn does his best Mick Jagger. - transplant - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:56 am: Gov. Pat Quinn takes part in a flash mob Tuesday, reenacting a scene from John Travolta’s “Saturday Night Fever” … - unclesam - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:58 am: Quinn proclaims “Disco Duck” as the official song of the State of Illinois! - aufjunk - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:59 am: “This is my position, it’s always been my position, and I’ll stick to it to the death - or until somebody, anybody, indicates the slightest hint of disagreement.” - just sayin' - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:59 am: Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk. Music loud and women warm. I’ve been kicked around since I was born. And now it’s all right, it’s O.K. And you may look the other way. We can try to understand The New York Times’ effect on man. Whether you’re a brother Or whether you’re a mother, You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Feel the city breakin’ And ev’rybody shakin’ And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. Stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. Well now, I get low and I get high And if I can’t get either I really try. Got the wings of heaven on my shoes I’m a dancin’ man and I just can’t lose. You know it’s all right, it’s O.K. I’ll live to see another day. We can try to understand The New York Times’ effect on man. Whether you’re a brother Or whether you’re a mother, You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Feel the city breakin’ And ev’rybody shakin’ And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. Stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. - Davey Boy Smithe - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:00 am: There’s a sale at Penny’s! - Highland, IL - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:01 am: I’m a little teapot. Short and stout. Here is my handle. Here is my spout. When I get all steamed up. Here me shout. Tip me over and … - Nuance - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:01 am: See this blank page. This is my position! - East Sider - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:02 am: A letter confirming my reservation at the nut house! - mcbroke - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:02 am: “you put your left hand up….you put your right hand down….you cancel worker’s raises and you spin yourself around……….yeah, let’s make the Hokey Pokey our state song!” - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:04 am: Pat didn’t get the message that flash mob was moved to 12:30 - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:06 am: There she is Miss America! - Capital View - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:07 am: Here is my Executive Order transferring the City of East St. Louis to the State of Missouri. - Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:07 am: This is the bill of sale. Groupon will now be administrating all State pensions on a daily basis….. - Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:07 am: It’s my way of bringing more J-O-B-S! - Siyotanka - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:08 am: Wait…wait…I have the final tally… And the winner is, with a vote of 104-0… Big Business 104 Taxpayers 0 Thank you and see you in the Fall… - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:15 am: Rich, did you have a “winner” yesterday? - South of Sherman - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:20 am: As you can see from this receipt, my Super 8 Super Saver card is still paying off for me handsomely! - Mike Huntoon - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:20 am: Governor Quinn proclaimed victory in Iraq on Thursday night from aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier returning to homeport . . . - Bigtwich - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:22 am: Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing. - Aldyth - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:24 am: Would somebody please take our lunch order?!!? - Champaign - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:27 am: Quinn suddenly realizes that “I’m a little tea pot” isn’t an appropriate for a commencement speech. - Cheryl44 - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:27 am: I’m sorry Governor, but that pose is not a Y, an M, a C or an A. - ZC - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:40 am: Governor Quinn strikes a pose from his brand-new hit single, “Vague.” - gathersno - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:42 am: Dewey Wins! - Scott McCoy - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:43 am: I do the hokey pokey and I turn the bill around… that’s what politics is all about! - Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:46 am: Wait! Wait! Please don’t leave! Here’s our latest tax abatement proposal for your company! - Meier's Half Full Glass - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:49 am: According to these numbers from the Office of Management and Budget, we are, just barely, “Ah, ha, ha, ha Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Alive! Kicking the can works!” - Just Saying - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:50 am: Quinn practicing his John Travolta move from Saturday Night Fever - Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:50 am: Speaker says put your left hand in the air. Speaker says put your right hand on your hip. Sign the budget. Ah, ah, ah. Speaker says sign the budget. - Boone Logan Square - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:56 am: In this great state of Illinois, bountiful with corn and soy producing jobs, jobs for hardworking people trying to get by in this great state, I have the under on Zagel giving Rod 12 years on Oct. 6. Mark it down! - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:01 am: Tax this Way! - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:01 am: A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a union contract for? - Black Ivy - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:02 am: You asked for it and here it is! A list of each an every campaign promise I intend to break for the remainder of my term. Please note - the list is subject to future amendments. - Wensicia - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:07 am: Hey, don’t ignore me, so what if the cleaners lost my white polyester suit! I still win! - K3 - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:20 am: “I’ll just pass around this sign up sheet for the potluck. Like I said, I’ll bring the waffles.” As a side note, I think I own that tie…does that mean it’s time to go shopping? - zatoichi - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:24 am: New! PX90-Office edition! Add extra paper clips and get that two pack. Do the ‘X’! - N'ville - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:26 am: HEY MACARENA! - OneMan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:26 am: With this signed document we shall have peace with WI… - Scottish - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:29 am: Number One…deficit in the nation! - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:30 am: The bizarro world Statue of Liberty. - one day at a time - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:36 am: All Rightee graduates….is it too late for the Dream Act signing ceremony? - OneMan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:37 am: Much like Lucy and the football Governor Quinn snatches up the AFSCME contract and says ‘psyc’… - Motambe - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:48 am: Who will bid on this Ethics bill signed by former gov Blagojevich? - OneMan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:53 am: All the single ladies now put your hand up… - Angry Chicagoan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 11:59 am: “An Illinois Governor has returned from Springfield bringing financial solvency with honor. I believe it is financial solvency for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” - Fed Up - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:11 pm: Since we haven’t paid our vendors, these 2 clips and 8 sheets of paper are all the office supplies we have left. - Cincinnatus - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:15 pm: Raise your hand if your SURE® - MrJM - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:17 pm: “Dammit, where’s the flag? Who was supposed to bring the white flag? Geez… Pat, you’re going to have to just wave a sheet of paper…” – MrJM - PoliGeek - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:23 pm: Eat your heart out, Lady GaGa. Anon…. flash mob moved to 12:30. Brilliant! Ha! - 42nd Ward - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:27 pm: Right here! Scientific proof that I AM SUPERMAN! - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:28 pm: Everyone keep your eyes on the paper as I slip these extra pens into my pocket. - Huh? - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:29 pm: Do I hear $100? $50? $25? $10? Anybody at $5? How about $1? - Stones - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:39 pm: “I have fifteen…excuse me….ten, ten Executive Orders!” - TaterPatch - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:41 pm: Ah! Yeah. It’s just we’re putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that’d be great. All right! - GMatts - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 12:51 pm: “These 4 signatures - after an exhaustive petition drive - prove I should run for re-election! - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 1:05 pm: Illinois just purchased Wisconsin in a tax foreclosure sale! - Irish - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 1:18 pm: Here is another agreement I signed that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Watch me make this one disappear also! Being Governor is bleepin golden! Contracts? We don’t need no stinkin contracts! THIS IS MY POSITION!!! Definite, in writing, and signed!!! …………………for right now anyway,….. I mean right at this minute,……. in this moment,….(land of lincoln)…….. with the information I have right now…. (jobs)………not that it couldn’t change………….in fact it might………. Rod, taught me that you can do what you want when your Governor. See how this works? When Mike pulls that string my left hand goes up. - Skeeter - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 1:45 pm: . . . and in conclusion, I take absolutely no position on this, or any other, piece of legislation that may come across my desk. - Pat Robertson - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 1:46 pm: I have here the names of 67 card-carrying union members currently serving as officials in Central Management Services! - Observing - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 1:57 pm: OLE’!!! - Our Magician - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:00 pm: Fly, Soy Boy, Fly! - railrat - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:07 pm: here are ALL the qualified appointment applications from the legislators that just happened to vote FOR the tax increase and my friends that supported my candadacy!! just all a coiencedence of course…. - roscoe tom - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:09 pm: If you are going to do Irish Dancing, wouldn’t an Irish Flag be more appropriate to hold up than waiving my resignation to get better scores. - Come on man! - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:19 pm: “I have a DREAM act…” - OneMan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:21 pm: See we get applications from people who are not connected, I just don’t read them, duh…. - Ghost of John Brown - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:51 pm: I’m here to support these school children behind me that have collected 10,000 signatures for a proposed program to give every child in Illinois a free XBOX. I can think of no other expenditure that the State of Illinois can make which is more important that this. We have the money, right? - Been there done that . . . - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 2:53 pm: Stay’n alive - Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 3:21 pm: The Governor doing his best Neville Chamberlain.. Peace in our time…Governor’s Daniels and Walker? Where’s your signature???? Helloo? Governors? - WazUP - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 3:22 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTDn2A7hcY - retired - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 3:31 pm: Look!! Look!! See whose lives I screwed with today!!!!! - dupage dan - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 4:09 pm: Look, it’s Pat Quinn doing his best Buster Keaton impression of John Travolta in “Dance Fever”! - Rock river - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 4:35 pm: “I WANT YOU TO WANT ME” - zatoichi - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 4:54 pm: He goes for a Pete Townshend windmill,….. but needs some practice. - central illinois - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 5:02 pm: winning - Dem 61350 - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 5:30 pm: This is the AFSCME contract and I’m going to burn it! I have learned a lot from Scott Walker! - fed up - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 6:44 pm: Rich, can’t believe you took my poem off - Boone Logan Square - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 6:45 pm: Governor Quinn momentarily provoked a panic among onlookers afraid that he might continue to strip. - Snj - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:33 pm: …you raise your left hand like this…then slowly, carefully slide the quarter into your right hand pocket like that.. and **poof** - Gregor - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:48 pm: “Let’s do the time warp again!!!” - Snj - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 9:56 pm: K ready? Let’s go…. Three point one four one five nine / Two six five four raise it high / Tax ‘em, tax break ha ha ha / Motorola-Motorola rah rah rah. - Snj - Tuesday, Aug 2, 11 @ 10:24 pm: The new phone book is here — i AM somebody!! Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.