Madigan: “We’ve known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can’t remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let’s be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And, uh, you were afraid to be in my debt…. You found paradise in [the senate], you had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn’t need a friend like me. But, now you come to me, and you say: “Don Madigan, call my bill.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Godfather.”
MM: As the longer tenured legislator here,and as speaker of the house, oh, and did I mention: Illinois State Democratic Chairman, i know that Senate President Cullerton and I are fully on the same page. Isn’t that right, John?….
The funniest sound I ever heard
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
But I can’t understand a single word
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
But if he’s serious or if he’s playin’
Whoo, my my is all he’s sayin’
Papa, whooo
Baba-baba-baba-whoooooooo!
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It’s true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn’t be so friendly if they knew my business was raising taxes instead of slashing pensions which they consider a harmless vice. But taxes, that’s a dirty business.
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all effin’ night.”
Cullerton: “Speaker Madigan met with the other four leaders at Saputos today. Now the really good thing about meeting Speaker Madigan at Saputos is the food. They put you in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn’t hungry but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank me about 15 Dr. Peppers.”
“I don’t want to say ’someone’ is …lacking leadership… but you know I am not talking about me … so maybe you need to ask …’someone’ else who is here …”
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
“If you are asking ME? I would say if some leader didn’t pass my Bill, I would call them ‘Cotton Headed Ninny Muggin’ …but that is me, you should ask Mr. President here what he thinks …”
“I’m an optimist, ‘Mr. Sunshine’, always ‘half-full’…I am not unreasonable, I am looking to the ‘bright side’ constantly … I have even been call …’Happy. Go. Lucky!’ … That’s me, ‘Speaker Sunshine’ …right John?”
“Ask anyone, when I take over a Bill, ‘reshape’ it… that’s a compliment. That’s me, saying, ‘Hey, I like you, I like your Bill’ … nothing more. You all read into stuff. President Cullerton knows that’s a compliment, ask him …I …am complimenting him.”
“You keep looking to me for answers. The House is the Lower Chamber, the Senate is the Upper Chamber…I …just want to do my part, nothing more…if I get met half way with complete acceptence of my Bill, no changes, then we will ALL …be fine. I am not being unreasonable …am I? …John?”
“I …I am but one of 118 members of the Illinis House … a ‘mushroom’ …who was chosen by my peers as the ‘Speaker’. I … work FOR my members, they have free will….you …you call us …US … Mushrooms … I am lucky, darn lucky, to be named Speaker …”
“If you are asking me…I guess I would ask the question ‘Whose plan has Governor Quinn’s support?’, and then ask YOURSELF …is that a plan …I … can attach my name…think about it.”
“I would like to thank the Chicago Tribune for its recent editorials belittling those Senators who voted against my “Pension Reform” legislation. And, John, I must tell you
Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Damn it Cullerton, keep repeating it to yourself; Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera.
- Just The Way It Is One - Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:22 pm:
Oswego@7:35 pm–love the “Elf” movie analogy–(I feel like I’m having one of those good, ‘ol, drawn-out “Scooby Doo-like” LOLs–but on the INside right now…! Still reading these from yesterday just for “kicks and giggles” because life just gets too dang serious sometimes–including all aspects of Illinois Shenanigans–oops, I mean Politics…thanks!!
- walkinfool - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:20 pm:
Cullerton biting his tongue.
- Ghost - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:24 pm:
Madigan: “We’ve known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can’t remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let’s be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And, uh, you were afraid to be in my debt…. You found paradise in [the senate], you had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn’t need a friend like me. But, now you come to me, and you say: “Don Madigan, call my bill.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Godfather.”
- Bobbysox - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:24 pm:
I, Mike Madigan, am the One. You do not need to listen to any others, for they are false idols before thee.
- Darienite - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:25 pm:
JC: “Damn hiccups.”
- And I Approved This Message - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:28 pm:
Madigan: “So when we couldn’t reach a compromise, and John just kept talking about his damn bill, I had no recourse but to sew his lips shut.”
- John A Logan - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:28 pm:
I. Am. Michael. J. Madigan.
You are not.
- LisleMike - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:31 pm:
MM: As the longer tenured legislator here,and as speaker of the house, oh, and did I mention: Illinois State Democratic Chairman, i know that Senate President Cullerton and I are fully on the same page. Isn’t that right, John?….
- too obvious - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:35 pm:
Sewing someone’s mouth shut is not just a figure of speech with me.
- phocion - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:40 pm:
Ghost already won the contest.
- Dan Shields, Springfield - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:40 pm:
MJM: He got over it but I’m still mad about last years State Fair and I will get even.
- Keep Calm and Carry On - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:41 pm:
“So happy togetheeeeer!”
- Norseman - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:42 pm:
Cullerton bites his tongue as Madigan reinforces his point that it’s all about what I say the State should do. Cullerton doesn’t matter.
- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:46 pm:
MJM: “….Spitshine Johnny they called him, made ‘em look like mirrors….”
JC: “I don’t shine shoes anymore, Mikey….”
- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:47 pm:
MJM: “Who has two thumbs and just doesn’t care what Johnny wants? This guy!”
- unclesam - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:49 pm:
Cullerton: That’s it…I’m running away. I don’t have to take this anymore.
- Tommydanger - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:49 pm:
Lip-o-suction Springfield style
- Cook County Commoner - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:51 pm:
Cullerton: How can he throw our union bosses under the bus? What does he know that I don’t? Ouch!!! Now my lip is bleeding.
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:59 pm:
No, as has been widely reported, I don’t own a cell phone. But if I did, I’d keep it right here, near where my heart used to be.
- Underwhelmed - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 2:59 pm:
In a brief moment of clarity, Cullerton remembered the wise words of another president.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Madigan, however, was not so lucky.
- Empty Suit - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:05 pm:
“Yes the cat got his tongue and next I will go for the heart”
- Tsavo - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:07 pm:
“Et tu, Michael?”
- phocion - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
“I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.”
- nobody - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:20 pm:
This is actually a great duo singing team……….and we’re catching Cullerton on the mmmm between pom and mow
Ah, Papa-oom-muh-muh-muh-muh
Ah, Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Dit-dit-dit
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Dit-dit-dit
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
The funniest sound I ever heard
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
But I can’t understand a single word
Papa-oom-mow-mow
Papa-oom-mow-mow
But if he’s serious or if he’s playin’
Whoo, my my is all he’s sayin’
Papa, whooo
Baba-baba-baba-whoooooooo!
- Amalia - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:21 pm:
don’t look into his eyes. find the mirror. turn his head into stone.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:27 pm:
MJM: “I’m here on business. I leave tomorrow now get rid of them. Come on, I’m tired. Get rid of the band, too.”
- Keyrock - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:28 pm:
That’s right. It’s my way or the highway.
- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:30 pm:
JC: “Mike, you don’t come to Springfield and talk to a man like Henry Bayer like that!”
- 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:36 pm:
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect. But I must say no to you and let me give you my reasons. It’s true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn’t be so friendly if they knew my business was raising taxes instead of slashing pensions which they consider a harmless vice. But taxes, that’s a dirty business.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 3:40 pm:
“I’ve frisked a thousand young punks.”
- phocion - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:05 pm:
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all effin’ night.”
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:11 pm:
I got nothing to beat Ghost.
- the unknown poster - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:32 pm:
MJM: Yep. I did it. It’s true. I put alum in John’s coffee.
John: MMMMF MMMMF
- Vote Quimby! - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:39 pm:
“Everyone who thinks my plan is Constitutional, say ‘Aye.’”
- Small Town Taxpayer - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:46 pm:
If you have any questions all you need to do is call me on my cell phone.
- zatoichi - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 4:51 pm:
Me??!
- Fred's Mustache - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 5:00 pm:
Cullerton: “Speaker Madigan met with the other four leaders at Saputos today. Now the really good thing about meeting Speaker Madigan at Saputos is the food. They put you in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn’t hungry but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank me about 15 Dr. Peppers.”
- Mr. Grsassroots - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 5:25 pm:
I know you’re not talking to me!
- fake county chairman - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:09 pm:
hey mike how come i can cast a shadow and you cant mmmmmm
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:29 pm:
“Did …I …eat the cannoli? Me?…Was it an apple? … Then what do you think?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:31 pm:
“I don’t want to say ’someone’ is …lacking leadership… but you know I am not talking about me … so maybe you need to ask …’someone’ else who is here …”
- Du Jour - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:34 pm:
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:35 pm:
“If you are asking ME? I would say if some leader didn’t pass my Bill, I would call them ‘Cotton Headed Ninny Muggin’ …but that is me, you should ask Mr. President here what he thinks …”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:37 pm:
“As President Cullerton will attest, I am this tall, same height as John, and not standing on a box … right John?….John?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:40 pm:
“I’m an optimist, ‘Mr. Sunshine’, always ‘half-full’…I am not unreasonable, I am looking to the ‘bright side’ constantly … I have even been call …’Happy. Go. Lucky!’ … That’s me, ‘Speaker Sunshine’ …right John?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:43 pm:
“Ask anyone, when I take over a Bill, ‘reshape’ it… that’s a compliment. That’s me, saying, ‘Hey, I like you, I like your Bill’ … nothing more. You all read into stuff. President Cullerton knows that’s a compliment, ask him …I …am complimenting him.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 7:51 pm:
“You keep looking to me for answers. The House is the Lower Chamber, the Senate is the Upper Chamber…I …just want to do my part, nothing more…if I get met half way with complete acceptence of my Bill, no changes, then we will ALL …be fine. I am not being unreasonable …am I? …John?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 8:09 pm:
“I …I am but one of 118 members of the Illinis House … a ‘mushroom’ …who was chosen by my peers as the ‘Speaker’. I … work FOR my members, they have free will….you …you call us …US … Mushrooms … I am lucky, darn lucky, to be named Speaker …”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 8:15 pm:
“I am only going to say this ONE time…I …didn’t call Chuck Goudie…someone … else did…maybe ask President Cullerton? …”
- Holdingontomywallet - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 8:39 pm:
OK, i admit it - we have a supermajority and we have failed…..
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 9:04 pm:
Songs running through their heads:
JC: “Our Lips Are Sealed”
MJM: “Tell it to the Heart”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 9:22 pm:
“If you are asking me…I guess I would ask the question ‘Whose plan has Governor Quinn’s support?’, and then ask YOURSELF …is that a plan …I … can attach my name…think about it.”
- Earl Shumaker - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 9:53 pm:
“I would like to thank the Chicago Tribune for its recent editorials belittling those Senators who voted against my “Pension Reform” legislation. And, John, I must tell you
- Earl Shumaker - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 9:55 pm:
I was not impressed with the number of Senators you have who take their oath of office seriously in defending the Illinois Constitution”
- Holdingontomywallet - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 10:09 pm:
As long as we we have a gazillion democrat voters in Chicago and Cook County, we’re good, right?
- Responsa - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 10:10 pm:
Cullerton: hmmm, I can’t decide if this lip gloss tastes more like strawberry or raspberry.
- mokenavince - Monday, Jun 17, 13 @ 10:31 pm:
I’m the real boss in the end John and the rest of the boys will listen to me.
- Jechislo - Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 6:36 am:
Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Damn it Cullerton, keep repeating it to yourself; Don’t say it, you’re on camera. Don’t say it, you’re on camera.
- Just The Way It Is One - Tuesday, Jun 18, 13 @ 4:22 pm:
Oswego@7:35 pm–love the “Elf” movie analogy–(I feel like I’m having one of those good, ‘ol, drawn-out “Scooby Doo-like” LOLs–but on the INside right now…! Still reading these from yesterday just for “kicks and giggles” because life just gets too dang serious sometimes–including all aspects of Illinois Shenanigans–oops, I mean Politics…thanks!!