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Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Your one-word thought about the immediate future of Illinois governance? Please keep it to one word only. And, of course, keep it clean. Thanks.

211 Comments

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:30 pm:
Uncharted

- better days - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
dive

- PublicServant - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
Confrontational

- Someone you should know - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
Earthquake

- Come on man! - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:33 pm:
petulant

- Anonymoiis - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:33 pm:
Reckoning

- OneMan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Different

- Rhino Slider - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Unbalanced.

- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Transition.

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
Cooperating

- CircularFiringSquad - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:35 pm:
Vague

- Just Because - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:35 pm:
Doomed

- evil t - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:35 pm:
hope

- DS Politico - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
Divided

- anon. - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
Hard (two words: very hard)

- Sarge - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
Hopeful

- OutSider - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:36 pm:
Hopeful

- winner - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:37 pm:
Optimistic

- ROLLO TOMASI - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
Stagnant

- Yatzi - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
Tense

- Wensicia - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
Paradox

- Stuff Happens - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Machiavellian.

- Stuff Happens - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Usufruct.

- ArmyMan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Gridlock

- Bob Hicks - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:42 pm:
Possible

- Responsa - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:43 pm:
eventful

- Cassiopeia - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:43 pm:
Adulthood

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:43 pm:
Oligarchy

- Frenchie Mendoza - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Disaster

- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
Honeymarooned

- Under Further Review - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
Austerity

- A guy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:46 pm:
renaissance

- Xavier Woods - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
lies

- CD - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
waiting

- zatoichi - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
Pyrrhic

- A Citizen - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
Bright

- Dozer - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
hesitant

- I wonder... - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Concerning

- Wordslinger - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Strapped

- Lake County Guy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Miserable

- Down South - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:51 pm:
Exasperated

- seen the big picture - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
upswing

- lil enchilada - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:52 pm:
unchanged

- x-pol - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:53 pm:
Rational

- Loop Lady - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
Corporatized

- Loop Lady - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:56 pm:
Rauhmeritized…

- Levois - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
interesting

- slow down - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
duplicitous

- Michelle Flaherty - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
reminiscent

- JS Mill - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
Paradox

- AnalystRet - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 1:59 pm:
Challenging

- LaFlare1017 - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:00 pm:
Melancholy

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:01 pm:
Questionable

- northernwatersports - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:02 pm:
Maybe

- Birdseed - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:03 pm:
Entertaining

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:03 pm:
Cublike

- Anyone Remember - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
Turbulent

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:07 pm:
same

- Louis Howe - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
Redo

- Gooner - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
Kabuki

- Peoria Guy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
Optimistic

- vole - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:09 pm:
Trumpled

- How Ironic - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:11 pm:
Delusional

- Jorge - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
Randian

- Katrina - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:15 pm:
SHAKEITUP

- Sunshine - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Hope

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Kakorrhaphiophobia.

- Illannoyed - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Two words:

Strategery
Lockbox

- Filmmaker Professor - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:16 pm:
Same sh*t, different piles
(sorry, but I’m a professor and we get paid by the word )

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
Squeezy

- anon2 - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:17 pm:
unholy

- Keyser Soze - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Lean

- Walter Mitty - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Uncharted

- Buck I - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Discombobulated

- dupage dan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
Madigan

- The Purple Sun - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:19 pm:
Doomsday.

- Wumpus - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
hopeful

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:24 pm:
Shakespearian

- JUSTaMOM - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:24 pm:
UNIONS

- Fan of Cap Fax - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:26 pm:
Exciting!

- Budgeteer - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Mathlessness

- Benniefly2 - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Rasputitsa

- Emily Miller - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
Tangled

- GA Watcher - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
Partisan

- Vladimir P. - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
Oligarchs.

- Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
Eek

- NoNameNick - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
Trepidation

- Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
Awful

- Precinct Captain - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
Unprepared

- Mokenavince - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:33 pm:
Improved!

- Sam Weinberg - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:34 pm:
opaque

- Scrivener - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:34 pm:
glacial

- Buzzie - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:36 pm:
Tinker

- Millie K. - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
HOPE!

- Gone, but not forgotten - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:38 pm:
Fumigation

- AC - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:40 pm:
Blagojevichian

- Carhartt flannel underwearer - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:41 pm:
Apocalyscious!

- Soccermom - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:43 pm:
ugh

- Noncon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:44 pm:
Scary

- Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:45 pm:
Business-like

- Tommydanger - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:46 pm:
Sisyphean.

- Anon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:48 pm:
Bleak

- spi_chi - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:48 pm:
Self-financed

- William j Kelly - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:50 pm:
Reptilian

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:50 pm:
Confusion

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:51 pm:
Apocalyptical

- Cheswick - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:52 pm:
Cuckoo.

- Cheswick - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:52 pm:
Jeans.

- Nearly Normal - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:54 pm:
Tense

- bored now - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:55 pm:
kansas

- William j Kelly - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:56 pm:
Rahmner

- Bert - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:57 pm:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

- RJS - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Narcissistic

- south side - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Meeks

- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 2:59 pm:
Wham!

- dupage dan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:00 pm:
Botcchanalian

- Anon. - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:01 pm:
Illinois.

- votecounter - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Incoming!

- The Muse - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:07 pm:
Overtime

- Casual Observer - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:09 pm:
Litigious

- D.P.Gumby - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:09 pm:
Amatuer

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
Joke

- D.P.Gumby - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
(misspelling intentional)

- Griz - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:12 pm:
Amorphous

- Alexander Cut the Knot - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:14 pm:
Cathartic.

- Republicrat - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:14 pm:
Money $$$$$

- mt - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:15 pm:
2016

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:16 pm:
corrupt

- Em - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:16 pm:
Trouble

- RNUG - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:17 pm:
Blitzkrieg

- Charles Wilkins - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
Sanquine

- Quill - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:19 pm:
lawyerlicious

- DuPage - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:21 pm:
Trainwreck.

- JW - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:25 pm:
Gilded

- Person 8 - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:29 pm:
Facepalm

- Left Leaner - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:30 pm:
Fun

- Jerome Horwitz - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:31 pm:
Doomsday

- Economic Justice - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:33 pm:
One-PercentILian

- Sinequanon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:35 pm:
Winning

- Ghost - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:37 pm:
Same

- Left of Central IL - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:42 pm:
Kafkaesque

- mt - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:42 pm:
Potomac

- archimedes - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:44 pm:
nonsensical

- Langhorne - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:48 pm:
Tenuous

- Joe M - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:49 pm:
Finances

- Ray del Camino - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:49 pm:
Carharttian

- realreporter - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:49 pm:
Shaky!

- Holdingontomywallet - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:52 pm:
Booyah!

- NH Insider - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:53 pm:
SNAFU (with apologies if I offend anyone)

- Gabe - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:53 pm:
donegotshakenup

- thankgodalmostretired - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:53 pm:
SCARY

- WHOOODAT - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:55 pm:
justanotherpolitician

- walk in my shoes - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 3:59 pm:
oraffice

- stoney - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:09 pm:
BOHICA

- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:09 pm:
Pseudoethical

- NovMan - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:13 pm:
Oligopolistic

- WhoKnew - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:13 pm:
LowBudget!!!

- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:14 pm:
Fireworks.

- Charlatan Heston - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:16 pm:
contradictory

- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:18 pm:
Shaken.

- Ridgelander - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:19 pm:
Rescinded

- Roadiepig - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:22 pm:
Excruciatingly

- Roadiepig - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:23 pm:
Circusy

- Roadiepig - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:24 pm:
Regrettable (to many who voted for Governor Rauner)

- Dr X - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:25 pm:
Ouch

- Joe Blow - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:26 pm:
Madiganistanian

- Todd - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:26 pm:
Better

- mt - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:29 pm:
nonessential

- Snucka - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:29 pm:
Evelyn!

- walker - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:31 pm:
Wringer

- Archiesmom - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:32 pm:
Angst-inducing

- Johnnie F. - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:35 pm:
Timexed

- Jocko - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:39 pm:
Carharrt-tastic!

- rip - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:43 pm:
moonbeamed

- Roscoe Tom - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:51 pm:
Clueless

- ChinaTown - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:53 pm:
UnprecedentlyDisheartening

- railrat - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 4:59 pm:
Ambivalent!

- regular democrat - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:00 pm:
“Bloviating”

- Soccertease - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:02 pm:
Sacraficial

- crazybleedingheart - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:09 pm:
Slytherin

- suburbanite - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:13 pm:
same old - same old (Is that one word?)

- Buddy - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:26 pm:
supercalifragilisticexpealadocious

- Etown - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:30 pm:
functional

- enoughalready - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:36 pm:
Brucelicious

- Anonymous 88 - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:41 pm:
Draconian.

- MrJM (@MisterJayEm) - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 5:55 pm:
Hubristic.

– MrJM

- Rowdy Yates - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 6:00 pm:
Inspirational.

- one day at a time - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 6:02 pm:
Bipolar

- observer - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 6:02 pm:
Entertainment

- relocated - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 6:36 pm:
Turbulent

- Anon Today - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:03 pm:
Rock-on

- Matt Belcher - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:14 pm:
Aufheben

- Bill White - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:18 pm:
Trepidation

- DaBears - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:20 pm:
Truthiness.

- Proletariat - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:27 pm:
Elitist

- Optim-masoch-istic State Drone - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:32 pm:
PostQuinnian

- 618662dem - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 7:35 pm:
FUBAR

- dreaming of vermont - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 8:10 pm:
dangerous

- Scooby - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 8:33 pm:
Hopeful

- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 8:43 pm:
mathematical

- Union thug - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 9:01 pm:
ABYSS

- Just Me - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 9:12 pm:
Different

- Anon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 9:14 pm:
bipartisanship

- Anon - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 10:09 pm:
Scary

- Albany Park - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 10:13 pm:
Meek(s)

- SamHall - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 10:54 pm:
Gardyloo!!

- persecuted - Tuesday, Jan 13, 15 @ 10:58 pm:
HenryVIII

- Publius - Wednesday, Jan 14, 15 @ 12:27 am:
Veto-Proof

- Bebe - Wednesday, Jan 14, 15 @ 6:36 am:
Scrambled

- jerry 101 - Wednesday, Jan 14, 15 @ 9:15 am:
Disaster

- Gary Hutton - Wednesday, Jan 14, 15 @ 10:45 am:
Phoenix!

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