“If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes.’ Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.”
“Speaker Madigan, Governor Quinn, in his statement on the lawsuit, said ‘Two members of the General Assembly’ when referencing you and President Cullerton, care to comment?”
I’ve just sampled some of the medical marijuana and I’ve got to tell you, this stuff is way more potent than the stuff they had when I was in college….who’s got the cheetos?
We can’t bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where was I… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn’t get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Madigan and Don Cullerton on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed to file the override lawsuit.
” You want, I can do this all day, I don’t have to blink or breathe and I’m wearing one of those NASA undergarments.”
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:09 pm:
Speaker: I ask you for justice.
Judge Cohen: That is not justice. Your chamber is receiving interest free loans.
Speaker: Let him suffer then as they suffer. When would you like a higher appointment?
Don Corleone: Speaker, Speaker, what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who vetoed your pay would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
Speaker: Be my friend… Your Honor.
Judge Cohen: Good. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.
“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
“See, the hardest thing for me is leaving the life. I still love the life. I’d bet twenty, thirty billion over a decade and then I’d either blow the winnings or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn’t matter. It didn’t mean anything. When I was broke I would go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it’s all over. And that’s the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There’s no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”
“I will never forget the look on their faces. All eight of them. Their faces dropped. All their courage and strength was drained right from their bodies. They had a reputation for walking precincts, but they knew that instant they’d made a fatal mistake. This time they walked into the wrong ward.”
- Lord Stanley's Cup - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:18 pm:
But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? **** you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? **** you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? **** you, pay me.
His blood smells like cologne. If he were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get delivered. He once had an awkward moment, just to see what it felt like. His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards.
OW, Bronx Tale, Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas and Blazing Saddles are all the movies you need to understand Illinois politics.
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:31 pm:
Cullerton: You mean, let me understand this, ’cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little messed up maybe, but I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to frickin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?
Madigan: Just… you know, how you tell the story, y’know — what?
Rich, there needs to be a “Film Fesival” for the uneducated …
(In the background, MJM overhears) “Johnny Ola told me about the State Fair. I didn’t believe it but its a butter cow …but seeing is believing, huh! ….50 bucks Pat. Old man Daley would never come here, but Johnny knows the State Fair like the back of his hand…”
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our constituents’ tax dollars - we did.
[winks at Governor Quinn and Andy Shaw]
But you can’t hold a whole legislative body responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole democratic system of self-government? And if the whole system of self-government is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our political institutions in general? I put it to you, Pat - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
I was thinking paraphrasing a different Al Capone Untouchables quote:
“I’m gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I’m gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some patronage, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to God if I ever had a grievance I’d have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that’s how you know who won.”
- LakeviewJ - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:41 pm:
“If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:41 pm:
“So, now … do you miss Rod”
- Ghost - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:42 pm:
“You want me to call Cullertons bill?”
- second street - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:42 pm:
Do you know me? I used to have the power to get things done, now all I have is the power to stop things getting done.
- Empty Chair - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:42 pm:
“…and you are?”
- Dan S, a Cubs fan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:43 pm:
Game over, LakeviewJ clearly has this won.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:44 pm:
“Speaker, are you going to be ok not getting a paycheck?”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:45 pm:
“When I was 17, it was a very good year….”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:45 pm:
“Governor Quinn wanted me to ask you if you would introduce him on ‘Governor’s Day’ …”
- Joe from Joliet - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:46 pm:
You know, this was a lot more fun when everybody just said “Okay”.
- Ghost - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:47 pm:
Staffer: “were out of apples…”
- The End Is Near - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:48 pm:
Madigan was released on his own recognizance.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:48 pm:
“Are you worried about a change in Leader in the HGOP Caucus?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:49 pm:
“Pat, are you seriously waiting for me to invite you up on the stage?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:50 pm:
“Sheila, seriously, you brought the banjo. I was kidding …”
- Jack - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:51 pm:
“Did you say I couldn’t borrow your cell phone?”
- Super Fly - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
No, I’d like to sing like Merle Haggard not look haggard.
- WP - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
“Without that paycheck, I can’t even afford to sleep.”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes.’ Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.”
- Spliff - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
“Mr Speaker just one more question …. did you apply for an interest free loan?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
“Governor … did you really just call me ‘Mike’ …”
“Speaker Madigan, Governor Quinn, in his statement on the lawsuit, said ‘Two members of the General Assembly’ when referencing you and President Cullerton, care to comment?”
- Anonymour - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Tim Snopes - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
“That’s a pretty ugly shirt you’re wearing.”
- Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:54 pm:
“Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking again.”
- Casual Observer - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:54 pm:
I have 4 judges on the Supreme Court. How many you got?
- Dirt Diver - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm:
I’ve just sampled some of the medical marijuana and I’ve got to tell you, this stuff is way more potent than the stuff they had when I was in college….who’s got the cheetos?
- Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm:
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
- New Guy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm:
We can’t bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say. Now where was I… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn’t get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm:
“You saw how I handled Blagojevich, right …”
- Empty Suit - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:55 pm:
“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:56 pm:
I’m sorry you feel that way Lisa. Some day you’ll understand.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:56 pm:
“Read the Lawsuit, Have a Cannoli…”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:57 pm:
The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Madigan and Don Cullerton on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed to file the override lawsuit.
- Stones - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:57 pm:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
- muon - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:57 pm:
The Speaker is able to walk away without injury after his collision with an oncoming Metra train.
- phocion - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:59 pm:
The “World’s Most Interesting Man” just got a close shave.
- Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:59 pm:
“I should have had a V8″
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 2:59 pm:
“Sit down …I’ll tell you when to talk…”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:00 pm:
“Now I’m gonna have to turn my back on you”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:00 pm:
muon zooms into the lead.
- Paul Lyin - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:00 pm:
What the hell is Gary LaPaille doing here?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:01 pm:
Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn’t have to move for anybody.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:01 pm:
“Goudie… you want to try that chasing stunt again …?”
- titan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:03 pm:
Lakeview has the win.
But if you’ve looked at the campaign committee reports, you’d know… he could pay the ransom.
- Esquire - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:04 pm:
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To clout, to exploit, to profiteer, and not to yield.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:05 pm:
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling.
- Publius - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:05 pm:
Lisa, i told you i can’t retire because i just saw the actuaries scoring on my plan.
- Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:05 pm:
“Send in the clowns, er, I mean the Feds”
- Spliff - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:05 pm:
A man…
A man stands alone at the plate.
This is the time for what?
For individual achievement.
There he stands alone.
But in the field, what?
Part of a team.
Looks, throws, catches, hustles.
Part of one big team.
Bats himself the live-long day,
Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and so on.
lf his team don’t field…what is he?
You follow me?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:06 pm:
“Somebody steals from me or my Committee, I’m gonna say you stole…”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:06 pm:
“Why don’t you boys go down to Wall Street and find some real crooks? Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor.”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:07 pm:
OK, just this once, you can ask me about my business.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:08 pm:
Rich - “en fuego”
“Ask me about Lisa again … go on … ask.”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:08 pm:
” You want, I can do this all day, I don’t have to blink or breathe and I’m wearing one of those NASA undergarments.”
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:09 pm:
Speaker: I ask you for justice.
Judge Cohen: That is not justice. Your chamber is receiving interest free loans.
Speaker: Let him suffer then as they suffer. When would you like a higher appointment?
Don Corleone: Speaker, Speaker, what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who vetoed your pay would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
Speaker: Be my friend… Your Honor.
Judge Cohen: Good. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:09 pm:
“You remember Hassert and Saviano, right?… Me too.”
- estubborn - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:09 pm:
“I’m okay, it’s just the food at Saputos. You get used to it.”
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:10 pm:
“only cops talk and scream like that. When a wise guy hits ya’, you don’t hear nuthin”
Pat, go start the car.
- Res Melius - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:11 pm:
“I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.”
- Credits to J.R.R. Tolkien
- LakeviewJ - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:11 pm:
“See, the hardest thing for me is leaving the life. I still love the life. I’d bet twenty, thirty billion over a decade and then I’d either blow the winnings or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn’t matter. It didn’t mean anything. When I was broke I would go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it’s all over. And that’s the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There’s no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can’t even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”
- Anonymour - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:12 pm:
A balrog? And I’m already so weary.
- Publius - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:12 pm:
We have been over this. A wink means yes, a nod means no. A letter of recommendation means trouble.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:12 pm:
“They called him ‘Two-Putt Tommy’, could two-putt on any greens, even those fast like mirrors…”
- georgeatt - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:12 pm:
“I may be in deep do-do here”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:13 pm:
“By the way, I took care of that thing for ya”
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:13 pm:
I’m sorry for your loss. Did he tell you much about us?
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:15 pm:
You want answers..
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:15 pm:
Really, I have to introduce Ke$ha?
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
Really, Metra… Of all things over time….
Metra
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
Lisa I will let you ask me about my business just this one time…
Did you manipulate Metra hiring…
No
Door closes…
- ryan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
Knight to queen’s bishop 3.
- estubborn - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
“Sorry I’m late, the Metra train I took was off schedule. I no see why people want heads to roll over there.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:16 pm:
“And ya… I do know you were a former federal prosecutor. Say it again, you will be a former member of the General Assembly …”
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:17 pm:
Who sent that guy?
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:18 pm:
“I will never forget the look on their faces. All eight of them. Their faces dropped. All their courage and strength was drained right from their bodies. They had a reputation for walking precincts, but they knew that instant they’d made a fatal mistake. This time they walked into the wrong ward.”
- Lord Stanley's Cup - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:18 pm:
But now the guy’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Business bad? **** you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? **** you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? **** you, pay me.
- estubborn - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:18 pm:
“Jim Oberweis said on the floor of the Senate he can beat me at chess? I’d laugh if I were still capable of doing so.”
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:19 pm:
Somebody takin’ care of this?
- Cook County Commoner - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:20 pm:
Et tu, Lisa?
- OneMan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:20 pm:
We have so many feds looking at so closely now I can taste the brylcream
- Wensicia - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:20 pm:
Governor, you underestimate the Power of the Dark Side.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:21 pm:
His blood smells like cologne. If he were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get delivered. He once had an awkward moment, just to see what it felt like. His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards.
He’s the most interesting Speaker in the world.
- Norseman - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:22 pm:
Listen here, it’s not IF looks could kill!
- estubborn - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:22 pm:
“You’re just now telling me Scott Drury was a Federal Prosecutor?”
- A guy... - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:23 pm:
Oh look, a puppy.
- LakeviewJ - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:23 pm:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
- anonymoose - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:24 pm:
From “Blazing Saddles” - with all due respect to the late, great Ms. Madeline Kahn.
“I’m tired. Tired of being admired…”
- Rufus D Doofus - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:24 pm:
Listen, I call da’ shots here? Ya got dat?
- estubborn - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:25 pm:
== “And ya… I do know you were a former federal prosecutor. Say it again, you will be a former member of the General Assembly …”
Sorry OW! I just realized I’m too late for a Drury reference.
- OurMagician - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:25 pm:
“How many Governors do I have to put in jail before you obey my every command?”
- Jay - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:26 pm:
You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?
- the Other Anonymous - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:28 pm:
Lost paycheck. Metra threw me out. Pension reform gone missIng. Need money for apple.
- dupage dan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:29 pm:
Götterdämmerung
- Nickypiii - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:29 pm:
WHAT? Me worry?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:30 pm:
it’s all good …
Bronx Tale Rich?
“Now, youse can’t leave the State Fair …”
- Rep Ford - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:31 pm:
I seen them come and go from Lincoln to Rod now what?
- Spliff - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:31 pm:
” and that’s the Chicago way!”
- Rich Miller - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:31 pm:
OW, Bronx Tale, Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas and Blazing Saddles are all the movies you need to understand Illinois politics.
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:31 pm:
Cullerton: You mean, let me understand this, ’cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little messed up maybe, but I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to frickin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?
Madigan: Just… you know, how you tell the story, y’know — what?
- Bygone - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:32 pm:
“Winning”
- walkinfool - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:32 pm:
Rich: you could turn your comments on MJM into a daily calendar — a good one every day of the year.
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:33 pm:
Geez, you can’t even write a letter anymore without being accused of attempting to influence.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:34 pm:
“Here endeth the Lesson”… Good Point Rich!
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:34 pm:
Feel lucky, governor, well do you ?
- Jerome Horwitz - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:34 pm:
Look mom! It’s Jerry Lee Lewis!
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:34 pm:
Homeless man impersonates Illinois House Speaker.
- Spliff - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:35 pm:
Eh tu Brute?
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:37 pm:
I didn’t get a “harrumph” out of that guy!
- throwing stones - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:38 pm:
What do you mean they didn’t put glaucoma in there. Uh oh! He he he. hey man, pass me a ding dong.
- Ghost - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:42 pm:
“I’m not great at farewells, so, uh, that’ll do, pig”
- LincolnLounger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:44 pm:
If only I didn’t have to pretend to like this ticket just to get my hands on the bulk mail permit.
- wordslinger - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:48 pm:
“Oh no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken, about a great many things.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:51 pm:
Rich, there needs to be a “Film Fesival” for the uneducated …
(In the background, MJM overhears) “Johnny Ola told me about the State Fair. I didn’t believe it but its a butter cow …but seeing is believing, huh! ….50 bucks Pat. Old man Daley would never come here, but Johnny knows the State Fair like the back of his hand…”
- John on the spot - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 3:54 pm:
Bromance. “I do not know what this means.”
- Esquire - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:02 pm:
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our constituents’ tax dollars - we did.
[winks at Governor Quinn and Andy Shaw]
But you can’t hold a whole legislative body responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole democratic system of self-government? And if the whole system of self-government is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our political institutions in general? I put it to you, Pat - isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!
- Chavez-respecting Obamist - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:02 pm:
I know–Cranston says he’s finished with the Walter White character. Let’s just hire this guy as his replacement and the show can go on.
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:05 pm:
I was thinking paraphrasing a different Al Capone Untouchables quote:
“I’m gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I’m gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some patronage, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to God if I ever had a grievance I’d have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that’s how you know who won.”
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:06 pm:
State Rep day after missed paycheck.
- Roamin' Numeral - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:10 pm:
“I wonder how many of these people realize I’m only halfway through my tenure as Speaker. Hmm.”
- KurtInSpringfield - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:13 pm:
“The moon is blue. Wait, what was your question again?”
- Quizzical - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:15 pm:
I never wanted this for you Lisa…I thought by this time it would be Senator Madigan or Governor Madigan.
We’ll get there Pop.
- sal-says - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:15 pm:
Am I looking at one of those carnival mirrors at the IL State Fair, or do I really LOOK that bad?
- Weiner - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:16 pm:
Anthony! Put your phone back in your pocket.
- Ha - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:26 pm:
Rich, you’re not helping
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:26 pm:
You’re not helping.
- Anonymous - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:26 pm:
Monique went on Bill o’reilly, seriously?
- 47th Ward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:27 pm:
You’ll be fine.
- KurtInSpringfield - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:27 pm:
I’m not a monster. I’m really a nice guy.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:28 pm:
Tough, tough, choices for Rich …
This was just a Caption you keep going in hopes of not getting run over by everyone else!
The the Caption,
“Well, the Speaker and Lisa took care of all family business THAT day … didn’t they?”
- Calhoun Native - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:28 pm:
There’s only one me in Metra.
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:29 pm:
The METRA Board is my undoing, are you serious ? The METRA Board ?
- nobody - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:31 pm:
I’m standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It’s your move…
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:33 pm:
Going “Seinfeld”
“And you wanted to be my latex salesman.”
Have a good weekend all!
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:33 pm:
Endangered Species: Old White Man Democrat
- And the horse they rode in on! - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:37 pm:
“Look pal I didn’t call this press conference to answer a bunch of questions.”
- Skeeter - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 4:49 pm:
Who do we know that could use a Chief of Staff?
- Todd - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 5:11 pm:
No Rod is not getting out and put in a half way house in the 23 ward
- Bill - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 5:25 pm:
“This is the business we’ve chosen.”
- anonymous - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 6:10 pm:
Bruce Rauner just brought me to my knees
- unclesam - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 8:06 pm:
That’s the last time I take Metra.
- Harry Callahan - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 8:41 pm:
Go ahead, make my day.
- WestSider - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 9:06 pm:
….once I built a railroad, now it’s done… brother, can you spare a dime?
- Das Man - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 9:24 pm:
Apples to apples, Crust to crust
- Siriusly - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 9:30 pm:
“Mr. Mapes. I believe we are going to have to teach this governor a lesson as well.”
- Siriusly - Friday, Aug 2, 13 @ 9:46 pm:
As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be Speaker.
- Just Me - Saturday, Aug 3, 13 @ 12:45 am:
You said Rod asked me to recommend him for the Lt. Governor job?
- Just Me - Saturday, Aug 3, 13 @ 12:54 am:
Avada Kedavra to you too.
(that one may require a google search for some of you)
- too obvious - Saturday, Aug 3, 13 @ 8:55 am:
Winner gets a free beer with Miller huh? What’s second prize, TWO beers with Miller?
- Observing - Monday, Aug 5, 13 @ 9:18 am:
I should pay their salaries out of my campaign committees!!??