Question of the day
Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The setup, from ABC7 Chicago…
[Gov. Pat Quinn] joked about his time with Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry, with whom he roomed during a trip to Iraq two years ago.
“And I had to listen to his so-called philosophy for seven days. The harshest philosophy known to man,” Quinn said.
Pat Quinn and Rick Perry were roommates for seven days? Wow. The horror. The horror.
* The Question: How do you think those conversations went?
Have fun.
* Wednesday’s caption contest winner was sal-says…
No, really. I’ll figure this Governor thing out soon; I’m near the last chapter.
- PublicServant - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 10:47 am:
We’ve got “Right-To-Work” in Illinois too pal. Ours just depends on making a Campaign contribution or two first.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 10:53 am:
“You’re right Governor. Even the Texas Rangers will make it to the World Series before the Cubs.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 10:59 am:
PQ: So what is your philosophy?
RP: It’s way harsh.
- Soccertease - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:09 am:
Quinn: Singing the lyrics to a tune by Alan Jackson about 9-11:”Not sure I can tell you the difference in Iraq and Iran…”
Perry: That’s cause you’re a dumb a#$
Quinn: Am not!
Perry: Are too!
…and on and on.
- Wensicia - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:10 am:
Quinn: “Just make sure you keep your gun and holster at least ten feet away while we sleep. I don’t want to be mistaken for a coyote in the middle of the night.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:10 am:
Well you see Pat, God created earth and the animals and then he killed them and let them decay for a few thousand years or so. That way we could have oil and he gave that oil to Texas and Texans made me their leader. Don’t you see Pat, God has chosen me, me, meee!
- That Guy - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:15 am:
I’ll bet Quinn started by talking about how Illinois has rail lines that go from Chicago to St Louis and back and just kept going with the story until it’s natural conclusion which of course was seven days of rambling later with Perry unable to get a word in edgewise.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:20 am:
“Blah, blah, blah Jesus…”
“Blah, blah, blah Lincoln…”
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:30 am:
Perry: So please, stay where you are, don’t move…and don’t panic! Don’t take off your shoes. Jobs is on the way.
Quinn: Golly!
- T - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:32 am:
How bout them Cowboys?! Your QB, Mr. Romo, played at Eastern Illinois.
Wish I was back in Texas,
The oceans no place for a squirrel.
Wish I was in Texas,
Prettiest place in the world, oh no.
I guess that deep in my heart,
I’ll always be a Texas Girl.
I wanna go hooommme hooommmmmme hommme oh oh
Yoldle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, a lay-ee, a lay-ee.
I wanna wake up in Texas
I miss those wide open skies.
I miss my 20 acres, bar-b-ques,
And pecan pies, oh why?
When I’m so far from you, Texas, all I can do is cry.
I wanna go ho-oome,
Ho-oome,
I wanna go ho-ome!
- Publius - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:38 am:
I actually talked to the Governor at the mansion on Tuesday night and he talked about having to room with Perry. Quinn stated that it was a living hell since Perry would not stop talking and kept him up all night. If the gov says someone talks to much he must really mean it because this was after him telling me this story for about 20 minutes, so I imagine they were going back and forth talking about jobs and the cycle endlessly repeating
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:40 am:
Well Pat, I think any man who only keeps V-8 in his fridge, signs union contracts and breaks them and decides to mess Rahm is obviously in over his head.
Dude that is harsh.
- 10th Indy - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:41 am:
Rick: What the hell are we doing here, Pat? We gotta get out of this town!
Pat: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Rick: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.
Pat: Oh, I don’t know, Rick. The French are bleep - holes.
- MrJM - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:44 am:
“No kidding! My desk had three envelopes in it too!”
– MrJM
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:46 am:
Pat, I would never have a Sheen/Esteves day in Texas…
Dude that’s harsh
- Stones - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 11:53 am:
“I hear crickets”
- ZC - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 12:04 pm:
Perry: “Hey, remember when you had to play second fiddle to that charismatic idiot who dreamed about making it to the White House? That must have been frustrating.”
Quinn: ?
or
Quinn: “That’s a mighty big state you’re governing there, the biggest in the country and one of the biggest in the United States of America.”
Perry: ?
- Team Sleep - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 12:48 pm:
Governor Quinn: “You know, Rick, I can’t choose between the ham & cheese sandwich and the turkey & cheese sandwich. I am afraid this will delay lunch much longer than necessary and probably infuriate the wait staff, but if I don’t do the right thing my stomach will be upset with me.”
Governor Perry: “Pat, I find your sandwich-flopping to be treasonous. Stop it now or else.”
- Cincinnatus - Friday, Aug 19, 11 @ 12:55 pm:
I’m pretty sure Quinn had no idea about what Perry was saying, and like the rest of us, vice versa.
- wordslinger - Monday, Aug 22, 11 @ 4:51 am:
–“Blah, blah, blah Jesus…”
“Blah, blah, blah Lincoln…” –
Give that man a cigar.