Since I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never outdo Willy in quantity, I just do what everyone else does around here - outdo him in quality.
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to…We’ll speak to that soon. We’re still studying it. Check in with Steve Brown in a couple of days.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:34 pm:
An apple at noon.
- Levois - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:36 pm:
roundabout
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:36 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “The Program”.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:37 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to being patiently silent.
- Nick Naylor - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Tanking the Turnaround Agenda”.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to giving just enough rope to “friends”.
- Dan Egan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:43 pm:
Deflecting blame
- Aldyth - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:43 pm:
Governor Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “The Sound of Silence”.
- BlameBruceRauner - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to understanding Illinois politics
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Yeah, um, that’s not my Agenda…”
- Lord Stanley's Cup - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
60 votes.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:48 pm:
Bruce is to turnaround as Mike is to his table wine
- Team Sleep - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:51 pm:
Saputo’s?!
- Roadiepig - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm:
Rainer is to his turnaround agenda as Madigan is to eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables for his midday snack.
(Not very successful, in other words )
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:54 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Bendover Agenda”.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:54 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “you’ll be fine”.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Burntotheground Defenda”.
- Steve - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to a “Turnaround Agenda”.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:57 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Runaground Agenda”.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “well, good luck with that…”.
- IllinoisBoi - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm:
…the iceberg the Titanic hit.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Cubs World Series Winner”.
- WhoKnew - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:59 pm:
VMan, your killing it!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:00 pm:
Is to turnaround as is to driving
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:02 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “I’ll never surrenda”.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “remember when you broke our deal? Yeah, me too.”.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “I’m no pretenda”.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Vote-down Agenda”.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
Governor is to turnaround as the speaker is to turndown
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing.”
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Beclown the Pretenda”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Fool me once…”.
- Blago's Luxurious Grey Mane - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
Meddling with the ALPLM.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Smack-down Unfriend-ya”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Stay the Course”
- Not it - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
Merry-go-round.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:12 pm:
Being Speaker
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Hands-Down Big-Spenda”.
- Outsider - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
Lisa
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm:
Status Quo!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm:
“Union talking points”
- Yossarian - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:18 pm:
Governor Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his “Pension Reform”.
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:19 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Confound Addenda”.
- XDNR - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Not going to get around to it Agenda”.
- DuPage - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” racing forward as Speaker Madigan is to painting a tunnel entrance on the side of a mountain.
- Amalia - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to running silent and running deep.
- LizPhairTax - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:21 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to With kindest personal regards, I remain sincerely…
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:24 pm:
Turnaround agenda is to a one way do not enter
- stlboy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
Uas madigan is to unions.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to underfunding state pensions.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:43 pm:
http://www.clker.com/cliparts/1/7/c/e/1194989548506685753no_u_turn_sign_01.svg.hi.png
- Gooner - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
Nothing.
The Speaker does not waste time or political capital on matters that do not have a chance.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:47 pm:
Rauner is to turnaround as madigan is to standing ground
- Wensicia - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to waiting…
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:50 pm:
A balancing Wallenda
- Enviro - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his “Supermajority Advantage”
- Boone's is Back - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
“The About Face Agenda”
- walker - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:07 pm:
Rauner is to his Turnaround Agenda as Madigan is to his House Rules.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:08 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “You’re Not Helping”.
- Under Further Review - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
Joe Berrios.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
VanillaMan Wins!!!
VanillaMan- 11
Oswego Willy- 9
- PublicServant - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
Speaker Madigan is to political tactician as Rauner is to political Rube Goldberg.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:24 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “turn around and leave my office…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:26 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his structured roll calls.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to sending it to Rules to languish and die.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to doing the governor a favor and not having a vote on it.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:29 pm:
Wait we have a new Winner!!
Oswego Willy!!!-12
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
loyalty
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:32 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his 13th Ward.
- been there - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:34 pm:
destroying pensions
- Anon - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:40 pm:
Tryagain Agenda
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:03 pm:
Since I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never outdo Willy in quantity, I just do what everyone else does around here - outdo him in quality.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:05 pm:
Oh - VanillaMan -, the light blue governor Bruce Rauner thanks you, lol
ov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his Madi-Knife apple peeler
- facts are stubborn things - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:47 pm:
keeping a majority (speaker)NOT (leader)
- Earnest - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:02 pm:
Apples
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:06 pm:
As Speaker Madigan is to “helping” large downtown Chicago Building owners save some money.
- A guy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:12 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to…We’ll speak to that soon. We’re still studying it. Check in with Steve Brown in a couple of days.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:17 pm:
- A Guy -,
“We’ll speak to that soon. We’re still studying it. Check in with Mike Schrimpf in a couple of days.”
That’s the Rauner playbook, two years running.
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to Notre Dame.
- A guy - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:22 pm:
OW, if you see Shrimpf and Brown together, you’ll know something’s cooking. Until then, focus on their studies. lol
- AC - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:43 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to pension reform.
- logic not emotion - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:55 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “shared control”.
- Judgment Day - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:58 pm:
“…Trying to fill a budget hole without actually filling it”.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 5:08 pm:
Rauner is to Turnaround Agenda as
Madigan is to Underconsideration Agenda.
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 5:09 pm:
Rauner is to Turnaround Agenda as
Madigan is to House Calendar.
- late to the party - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 6:05 pm:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “actual stuff.”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 6:58 pm:
Rauner is to turnaround as madigan is to turning on
- See the forest - Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 8:39 pm:
Control.
- Western Ave. Doug - Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 12:38 am:
“is being a member of Oswego Willy’s party.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 2:52 am:
- WAD -, feel better? lol. Rauner is a Raunerite, not a Republican. Please learn.
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to the autonomy of the Legislative Branch.
- A guy - Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 8:45 am:
Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to Brass doors on the Capitol.