* “Saving Illinois taxpayers” via jet helicopter? From the Illinois Review…
Aboard a jet helicopter this morning, on his way from Joliet’s Lewis University airport to Cahokia, For the Good of Illinois founder Adam Andrzejewski just sent Illinois Review a photo of the Illinois River with these words, “It’s a beautiful state and we are going to restore our historic greatness.”
Andrzejewski will join House Republican Leader Tom Cross, State Senator Kyle McCarter, State Representative Dwight Kay and GOP candidates at the first of four planned stops in Wednesday’s “Save Illinois Taxpayers” fly around in Cahokia at 10:00 am.
*** UPDATE *** There’s now a video. Leader Cross talks about the helicopter ride at around the 4 minute mark. Among other things, Andrzejewski claims that the Democrats want another $2 billion tax hike…
Smoke continues to rise off the bonfier of $100 bills contibuted to campaigns by various individuals and political groups who quite frankly can’t relate or don’t care about the lives of average American’s What recession–policical campaigns have plenty of money to burn!!
“The Ole Miss … Named for a Pioneer of the West in 1909, Miss Sara Issippi, or as we here in Illinois call it the Mississippi. We are formal that way.”
“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it’s safe to surf this beach! I mean, I’m not afraid to surf this place, I’ll surf this whole ***** place!”
Hey, man, you don’t talk to Adam A., you listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas…”
Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers’ jobs, drive down wages and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care, and you pay. How many? Ten thousand illegal aliens a day. Enough to fill Monk’s Mound every single week.
“See you’re thinking. Don’t. ‘Cause Sergeant, you can’t control who gets hit or who doesn’t or who falls out of a chopper or why. It ain’t up to you. It’s just war.”
Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
“I was going to the worst place in the world for Republicans and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away from Election Day, and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the state like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Madigan. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Madigan’s memory any more than being back in Cahokia was an accident…”
Man, the first quotation sounded like something from a speech by former Governor Blagojevich during the final days of his administration. I know that you are quoting Dennis Hopper’s character from “Apocalypse Now,” but man it reminded me of the prison inmate in Colorado.
While Shore’s was in fact brilliant, I give my vote (not that we are voting or that this is any sort of contest or anything) to Arthur Anderson, who wonderfully captured the paranoia of so many on the far right.
It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.
===It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.===
So … When I mock that you call Cross ‘Leader’ instead of Minority Leader … is that called “inside baseball” …- Inside Baseball -?
Could it be by PLAYING that ‘Leader’ word, I am mocking the fact that ‘Leader’ Cross is Minority Leader?
Thanks for the lesson… appreciate it.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Sincerely yours,
Oswego Willy
(- Inside Baseball - , I am embracing the MJM aka ‘Speaker Michael J Madigan’ warm closing. Yeah, that is kinda inside baseball too, - Inside Baseball -)
You are saying the word “Minority” may be referring to … ethnicity, then Oswego Willy gave you too much credit. You are right on, like I was with President Bush!!!
Yours in Ethnicity,
Kanye West
(I am mocking your undertones, if in fact you went down that road. That might be too Insider Baseball …)
True that! I also remember signs around the statehouse that clearly stated Democratic Leader Michael J Madigan … when Lee A Daniels had the Gavel.
Sorry, I digress.
- CircularFiringSquad - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:14 pm:
“It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross”
Come On Man
It’s Billboards
Does ChopperAdamAnt think by invading MO he gets the Cardinals
Did Billboards get to rest his golf cart? Good for the the Election Day tee time.
So many questions
So little time
Fire, Aim, Ready!
I want Tom Cross to answer whether he will support or oppose the tax on cable TV. Its likely scheduled for a vote and he and many in his caucus are seemingly in favor of taxing satellite TV. It would seem to conflict with their anti-tax pledge.
Dwight Kay who was part of today’s charade has indicated he supports the tax.
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 6:28 pm:
Thank you, Skeeter.
With kindest personal regards I remain,
I can see the Blago part. I just thought about Cross, without his golf clubs, flying around and being indocrinated by Adam A. and then being so brain-washed that Cross becomes THAT guy.
- OneMan - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:15 pm:
Governor Quinn issued a statement saying he was going to start his massive grass roots pension thing today but someone had taken his chopper…
- just sayin' - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:22 pm:
If you have to deal with 47%’ers, this is the only way to do it - high overhead in a jet copter.
- Lil Enchilada - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:26 pm:
Look at all the money we’re saving in tolls!
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:26 pm:
“Lech Walesa would have endorsed our fly-around from high above Illinois if he were here…”
- Tommydanger - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:30 pm:
The sun sets on Republican statesmanship.
- Give Me A Break - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:36 pm:
The Milkman should have tried this view instead of Soldier Field.
- train111 - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:38 pm:
Smoke continues to rise off the bonfier of $100 bills contibuted to campaigns by various individuals and political groups who quite frankly can’t relate or don’t care about the lives of average American’s What recession–policical campaigns have plenty of money to burn!!
train111
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:40 pm:
“Hey, did someone forget to load Leader Cross’ Golf Clubs?”
- Carpe Diem - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:42 pm:
The Illinois is a beautiful working river - ecologically and economically. What flying around has to do with this fact is beyond me…
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:45 pm:
Common sense tells me to just shut my computer off or risk being banned….
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:46 pm:
“The Ole Miss … Named for a Pioneer of the West in 1909, Miss Sara Issippi, or as we here in Illinois call it the Mississippi. We are formal that way.”
- Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:46 pm:
“As close to poor people as we ever want to get.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:47 pm:
“There’s a Romney sign, there’s a Romney sign … There’s a Romney 4×8 …there’s a Romney sign … Look, a Plummer sign!”
- Cheryl44 - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:48 pm:
I can see your house from here!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:49 pm:
Adam: “Look as far as you can see, my friends … this is my Kingdom.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:52 pm:
Adam: “Sorry Fellas, my private Concorde was in the shop. Oh well, we’ll ’slum it’ and move on.”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:52 pm:
“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, then it’s safe to surf this beach! I mean, I’m not afraid to surf this place, I’ll surf this whole ***** place!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm:
Adam: “Leader Cross, I would invade Missouri here, here, and at the river bend …. there. It’s a gamble, but it just might work.”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm:
“Lieutenant, bomb that tree line about 100 yards back! Give me some room to breathe!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:54 pm:
Rich! … lol
- The Captain - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm:
“Oberweising”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm:
“I love the smell of Tax Forms in the morning”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:56 pm:
“Sell the house. Sell the car. Sell the kids. Find someone else. Forget it. I’m never coming back. Forget it.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:00 pm:
“The horror …the horror”
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:01 pm:
It’s the return of Air Wolf with Adam “Jan-Michael” Andrzejewski as Stringfellow Hawke.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:01 pm:
Hey, man, you don’t talk to Adam A., you listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas…”
“Calm down, Cross, Geez.”
- Nuclear Bozo - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:02 pm:
47 percenters don’t surf!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:04 pm:
“What the heck do you know about surfing, Cross? You’re from Oswego!”
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:04 pm:
Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers’ jobs, drive down wages and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care, and you pay. How many? Ten thousand illegal aliens a day. Enough to fill Monk’s Mound every single week.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:06 pm:
“See you’re thinking. Don’t. ‘Cause Sergeant, you can’t control who gets hit or who doesn’t or who falls out of a chopper or why. It ain’t up to you. It’s just war.”
- Old Shepherd - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:10 pm:
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:11 pm:
Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is a VC. Anyone who stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:12 pm:
Any women or children?
Sometimes!
How can you shoot women or children?
Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ‘em so much! Ain’t war hell?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:12 pm:
“I was going to the worst place in the world for Republicans and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away from Election Day, and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the state like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Madigan. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Madigan’s memory any more than being back in Cahokia was an accident…”
- Shore - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:17 pm:
“I can see 5th place in the Governors race from here!”
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:19 pm:
==It’s the return of Air Wolf with Adam “Jan-Michael” Andrzejewski as Stringfellow Hawke.
Who is Ernest Borgnine then?
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:22 pm:
“I was always scared of black helicopters until today.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:24 pm:
“Hey Adam, why are you, and your crew, sitting on your helmets?”
- Esquire - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:26 pm:
We’re off to see the Wizard…
Let me know when you reach the Emerald City, Adam.
- walkinfool - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:27 pm:
“This is a free-fire zone, son.”
“Why are we standing up?”
- Esquire - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:32 pm:
@Oswego Willy:
Man, the first quotation sounded like something from a speech by former Governor Blagojevich during the final days of his administration. I know that you are quoting Dennis Hopper’s character from “Apocalypse Now,” but man it reminded me of the prison inmate in Colorado.
- ArchPundit - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:34 pm:
==Adam: “Leader Cross, I would invade Missouri here, here, and at the river bend …. there. It’s a gamble, but it just might work.”
Have I mentioned my plan to invade and take Saint Louis from 270 inwards? I’d even vote for Adam if he did that.
Adam–call me–I have intel behind enemy lines.
- Thoughtless Penny - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:59 pm:
–“I can see 5th place in the Governors race from here!”–
Winner.
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:04 pm:
Is Adam A still pushing term limits on this tour? that’d be a fun one to discuss with leader Cross.
- walkinfool - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:12 pm:
Cross’ Purgatory.
- just sayin' - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:17 pm:
I love the smell of tax breaks in the morning.
- Small Town Liberal - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:27 pm:
AA - “Leader Cross, why do you sit on your helmet?”
Cross - “Let’s just say I don’t want my voice to end up sounding like yours…”
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:32 pm:
I havent’ seen a part like that since the 38th parallel
- soccermom - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:42 pm:
Shore wins. There is no second (or sixth) place.
- x ace - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:58 pm:
Push one out first, the rest rest will talk.
- Skeeter - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:14 pm:
While Shore’s was in fact brilliant, I give my vote (not that we are voting or that this is any sort of contest or anything) to Arthur Anderson, who wonderfully captured the paranoia of so many on the far right.
- Insider Baseball - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:22 pm:
It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:29 pm:
===It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross.===
So … When I mock that you call Cross ‘Leader’ instead of Minority Leader … is that called “inside baseball” …- Inside Baseball -?
Could it be by PLAYING that ‘Leader’ word, I am mocking the fact that ‘Leader’ Cross is Minority Leader?
Thanks for the lesson… appreciate it.
With kindest personal regards, I remain.
Sincerely yours,
Oswego Willy
(- Inside Baseball - , I am embracing the MJM aka ‘Speaker Michael J Madigan’ warm closing. Yeah, that is kinda inside baseball too, - Inside Baseball -)
- Colonel Flagg - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:31 pm:
Adam don’t surf!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:40 pm:
- Insider Baseball -,
IF…
You are saying the word “Minority” may be referring to … ethnicity, then Oswego Willy gave you too much credit. You are right on, like I was with President Bush!!!
Yours in Ethnicity,
Kanye West
(I am mocking your undertones, if in fact you went down that road. That might be too Insider Baseball …)
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:44 pm:
To factual it would/should be “Republican leader”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:51 pm:
- Michelle Flaherty -
True that! I also remember signs around the statehouse that clearly stated Democratic Leader Michael J Madigan … when Lee A Daniels had the Gavel.
Sorry, I digress.
- CircularFiringSquad - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:14 pm:
“It’s Minority Leader Cross, not Leader Cross. They came up with the term Leader because they don’t like the word Minority. But he always will be Minority Leader Cross”
Come On Man
It’s Billboards
Does ChopperAdamAnt think by invading MO he gets the Cardinals
Did Billboards get to rest his golf cart? Good for the the Election Day tee time.
So many questions
So little time
Fire, Aim, Ready!
- WazUp - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:17 pm:
A.A. “Ok ten minutes until we are over Quinn’s house. Get the water balloons ready”
- 1776 - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 5:20 pm:
I want Tom Cross to answer whether he will support or oppose the tax on cable TV. Its likely scheduled for a vote and he and many in his caucus are seemingly in favor of taxing satellite TV. It would seem to conflict with their anti-tax pledge.
Dwight Kay who was part of today’s charade has indicated he supports the tax.
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 6:28 pm:
Thank you, Skeeter.
With kindest personal regards I remain,
Snarkily yours,
Arthur Andersen
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 9:14 pm:
If we buzz the river can we really catch carp by reaching out the door?
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Oct 11, 12 @ 7:15 am:
- Esquire -
I can see the Blago part. I just thought about Cross, without his golf clubs, flying around and being indocrinated by Adam A. and then being so brain-washed that Cross becomes THAT guy.
But I get that Blago thought.