So in conclusion, it’s the Democrats, traditionally the strongest allies of public employees, who are fighting with me in the courts to prevent them from being paid. On the other hand, it’s the Republicans, who traditionally loathe public employees and especially their unions, who are determined to violate the constitution to keep these employees on the payroll.
“Ok Bruce, you hold the book like this, then sound out each word. Good job, once you get through Curious George we’ll give the Illinois Constitution a try.”
While I can’t let state workers be paid, I have arranged for free soup to be distributed in the cafeteria. If everyone would just form a single file line with their hands out like this…
And then, just when everyone was sure that the Rock’s car was going to smash right into Vin Diesel’s car, they both swerved at the very last second! Wow!
“Well, you can hit my fingers with your gavel as much as you want, Your Honor, but I have to warn you they’re pretty tough. I went to parochial school.”
“I know if makes no sense; pay employees without appropriations, veto appropriations to pay state workers, then fight to get state workers paid anyway! I’m not making this up…”
“My day? You all would kind to know about… MY day? I get a certified letter, I open it up, asking me something or another, and its signed, oh, it’s signed;
‘With kindest personal regards, I remain. Sincerely yours, Michael J. Madigan.’
“You tell me, Mr. Chairman. The Governor’s Office wants causation changes, the Lt. Governor, she wants to testify against it. She’s here, if you want her to testify, your call…”
We’re looking into the possibility that unconstitutionality may be a constitutional proposition. The unconstitutional St. Clair decision voids the unconstitutional Cook County decision. We think that’s sort of like two negatives equals a positive. OMG! I just asked the Supreme Court to stay a constitutional decision! God I miss the Peace Corps…
“Now you sing the chorus:
‘Come on up! Come on up! Come on up to the House!
This world is not my home,
I’m just a’passin’ through.
Come on up to the House!”
“Don’t you know my father is the Speaker? Now proceed to bow before me!”
- lost in the weeds - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 10:11 pm:
“This is how I hold in my hands the state constitution when I read it –but now I seem not to be able to find it. GGGhheeeshh anyone seen it or have a copy?”
- Late to the Party - Thursday, Jul 16, 15 @ 6:33 am:
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:00 pm:
“Capiche?”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:01 pm:
“Stop reading Kass! I’m. Not. Running. For. Governor!”
- jls - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:02 pm:
You’re in good hands.
- The Colossus of Roads - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
I wash my hands of this matter.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
“Read…read the Constitution. This IS my job!”
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:05 pm:
*hand gestures*. This is the Statehouse. This is the dome. Look inside for leaders… Nobody’s home!
- Gunslinger - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:06 pm:
Let me be perfectly clear, State employees should not be paid!
- Wordslinger - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
“…. and then he says to me, ‘Step down? How about you step off?…..”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
So in conclusion, it’s the Democrats, traditionally the strongest allies of public employees, who are fighting with me in the courts to prevent them from being paid. On the other hand, it’s the Republicans, who traditionally loathe public employees and especially their unions, who are determined to violate the constitution to keep these employees on the payroll.
Does it make sense now, your honor?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
“I told the Governor; Help me… Help you…”
- hot chocolate - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:07 pm:
Well, that was 2007, and there was a Democrat in charge.
- cez - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:08 pm:
She is thinking ” I hope the lowly public doesn’t recognize this secret occult Illuminati hand gesture!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
“I’m sitting at the right table! I’m on THIS side of the argument. K? K…”
- Daniel Plainview - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:09 pm:
“Ok Bruce, you hold the book like this, then sound out each word. Good job, once you get through Curious George we’ll give the Illinois Constitution a try.”
- A guy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
It doesn’t matter if I’m selective on the Illinois Constitution…I’m here now!
- A guy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
This is my Bobcat face. You want to see it again or you gonna void those checks?
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
AG Madigan: “And that’s the last time I visit St. Clair County!”
Staffer: “Um, you have an office in Belleville.”
AG Madigan: “Oh…then I’m never going anywhere in St. Clair County except for Belleville!”
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:11 pm:
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
“To close, it wasn’t I, that called your Honors corrupt. Not me. You, your Honors… Not corrupt…”
- Steve - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:15 pm:
I’ve a very important person , my last name is Madigan and don’t you forget that.
- ILPundit - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
“The solution to this issue lies in moderation, not the extreme.”
- AC - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
Colegate Whitening Toothpaste, recommended by dentists, trused by attorney general Madigan.
- AC - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:19 pm:
As Governor Rauner will soon learn, the Madigans bark really does match their bite.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:20 pm:
“Now this is my Kirk Douglas impression…”
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:21 pm:
While I can’t let state workers be paid, I have arranged for free soup to be distributed in the cafeteria. If everyone would just form a single file line with their hands out like this…
- walker - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:22 pm:
“You don’t understand. The Dome is here to kill us!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:24 pm:
“So I said to Judy Baar, ‘Palmolive. You don’t want dishpan hands? Use Palmolive!’”
- @MisterJayEm - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:25 pm:
And then, just when everyone was sure that the Rock’s car was going to smash right into Vin Diesel’s car, they both swerved at the very last second! Wow!
···
I’m sorry, your honor — what was the question?
– MrJM
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:25 pm:
“I don’t know, Jak. It might be a $14 watch. It was a gift from my father. You don’t ask how much a gift cost.”
- Mama - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:26 pm:
How dare you to over-rule me, the A.G.! I am protecting our State Constitution.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
“I’d like to quash the rumor that when I walk down a hall, I have an aide following behind me with a CD player playing the ‘Law and Order’ theme.”
- downstate - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
I’m the Mary! You’re the Rhoda!
- Republicrat - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
My best Howard Dean impersonation!
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
“Just off the Square. A nice little shop where you can get a mani-pedi for $10.”
- Skeptic - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
“Look, Cutler, you’re supposed to throw the ball *here*!”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:33 pm:
I pretty much just do whatever Oprah tells me to.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
“Well, you can hit my fingers with your gavel as much as you want, Your Honor, but I have to warn you they’re pretty tough. I went to parochial school.”
- Grimm - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:38 pm:
…”and state workers will look at their paystubs and be like ‘eeeeek!’”
- Jeff Trigg - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
A (drug dog) sniff is not a search and, therefore, requires no 4th Amendment justification.
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:39 pm:
Jingle Bells!
Jingle Bells!
Jingle all the way!
C’mon Anne!
Join me!
- so... - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
Don’t you see, state workers, I’m holding up your paychecks for your own good!
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:40 pm:
“Mr. Miller, just because I wear black and chase white whales, that doesn’t mean I’m Captain Ahab!”
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
“Its beginning to look a lot like Pay Day!”
“Wait - I mean, its beginning to look a lot like Pay Stay!”
Sing along!
- Tsavo - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
“Stateworkers? Let them eat cake”
- All the answers - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:41 pm:
Yes, Rauner hates all state employees. It’s true!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
“I know if makes no sense; pay employees without appropriations, veto appropriations to pay state workers, then fight to get state workers paid anyway! I’m not making this up…”
- Name Withheld - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:45 pm:
And I said, “No Dad - hold your sheet music like this when you sing carols…”
- Rhino Slider - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:48 pm:
Yes, this is my best smile.
- Homer J. Quinn - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:49 pm:
“it’s a cookbook! ‘To Serve the People of Illinois’ is a cookbook!”
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:53 pm:
Finally! A politician that can sign their own speech for the deaf! About time!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:54 pm:
“And hold you… Hold you in the palm… of His hand…”
- VanillaMan - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:56 pm:
Please find us a constitutional way to do the unconstitutional thing.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:56 pm:
“No! That is not MY Atticus Finch… I’d open my ‘Mockingbird’ and see… There’s my Atticus! He’s here. He’s my hero…”
- Jasper - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:57 pm:
Please don’t pay those pesky, low level employees.
- Anonymous Retiree - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 1:58 pm:
state Employees should not be paid but pay my employees anyway
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:00 pm:
“My day? You all would kind to know about… MY day? I get a certified letter, I open it up, asking me something or another, and its signed, oh, it’s signed;
‘With kindest personal regards, I remain. Sincerely yours, Michael J. Madigan.’
‘Michael J. Madigan’! I had to look at it again…”
- mcb - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
No pay for you!
- Judgment Day - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:10 pm:
“Please tell me how to do my job…”
- Retired Contractor - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:11 pm:
Truth! You can’t handle the Truth!
- Outsider - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
Don’t you get it…It is unconstitutional…..
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
“Ten. Ten. I told the Hostess Company, ‘You either put ten in a box or I’ll make sure you never sell another Ding Dong in the state of Illinois!”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:14 pm:
Rauner set my teeth on edge, and they’ve been like this ever since…
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:15 pm:
“So I said to Jet Li, ‘You think you’re the Wu Shu Master? Come over here. I’ll show you some Wu Shu!’”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
“Your Honor, I tried to catch Ms. Sanguinetti before she fell, but she was determined to hit the floor, and then started looking for witnesses…”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
“You learn how to slam your fingers in a door, and that’s how you stay awake through law school.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
“You tell me, Mr. Chairman. The Governor’s Office wants causation changes, the Lt. Governor, she wants to testify against it. She’s here, if you want her to testify, your call…”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
“And then I grabbed Governor Blagojevich and shook him and said, ‘No! They won’t let you take your hair dryer to the Joint!’”
- ODB - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:27 pm:
Wu Tang Forever!
- burbanite - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
But Daaaad I don’t wanna.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:30 pm:
“Then Ms. Simon said to me, ‘Your fingers are going every which way! You’ll never learn to play the banjo like that!’”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:33 pm:
“Your honor, I can’t explain how I got this frosting on my fingers, but I assure you I didn’t touch your birthday cake.”
- Gantt Chart - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:35 pm:
…and your little dog Toto!
- downstate commissioner - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:40 pm:
“I don’t care how much money you have, Governor, but my Dad will still whip your butt!!”
- Menard Guy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
We’re looking into the possibility that unconstitutionality may be a constitutional proposition. The unconstitutional St. Clair decision voids the unconstitutional Cook County decision. We think that’s sort of like two negatives equals a positive. OMG! I just asked the Supreme Court to stay a constitutional decision! God I miss the Peace Corps…
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:54 pm:
and then you-know-who made me eat an apple that was this big!
- Anonymiss - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 2:57 pm:
“Help me, help you.”
- Former Titan - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
I am a uniter, not a divider.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:05 pm:
“Some say love… It is a river… “
- aufjunk - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:09 pm:
“How many times do I have to tell you? He ain’t heavy, he’s my father!”
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:10 pm:
OW@1:54, well played!
“Nobody leaves until we get this right, including Mr. Chief Justice. One more time…By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois…”
- DuPage Don - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:13 pm:
Discretion is the better part of valor. I better not post what I really wanted to or Rich will delete it.
- One of the 35 - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 3:16 pm:
On one hand, you have my father, a warm and caring guy! On the other hand, you have a wealthy and arrogant governor! Who are you going to believe?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:01 pm:
“You take the mallow… and place it on the graham… “
- McPhee - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:02 pm:
You do know that Drury is a former prosecutor.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:08 pm:
“If you want to do Burt Lancaster, it’s all in the hands. And the teeth. Lots of teeth. Then you go, ‘Ha! Ha!’”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:11 pm:
“Do these look like the hands of a Constitution manipulator?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:12 pm:
“Nothing up my sleeves. Now, I will make a subpoena appear out of thin air!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:20 pm:
“And then he called Dad…a career politician! Oh, the humanity…”
- Enviro - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:22 pm:
Future Governor of Illinois
- hard times - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:22 pm:
What about the next three years? leverage your honor, leverage.
I don’t know if Fritchey goes to the same dentist as me, why?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:22 pm:
“The law, the law is like your…fingers. You can wiggle it.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:25 pm:
“Now you sing the chorus:
‘Come on up! Come on up! Come on up to the House!
This world is not my home,
I’m just a’passin’ through.
Come on up to the House!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:27 pm:
“Synergy”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 4:29 pm:
“… you invite the Speaker, you invite the Governor, bribg them together, alone.. have cigars, have an apple, then… leave them alone…”
- Blago's Hare - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 5:10 pm:
Don’t cry for me, Illinois .
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 5:42 pm:
“Caption?”
“I’ll give you my opinion, …but it’s the Office’s opinion, you don’t want to know my own personal opinion… trust me.”
General,
All in fun.
OW
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 5:57 pm:
4 syllables, people. We have cons and tea. 3rd syllable: also, more than one. Come on…….
- Robert0117 - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 5:59 pm:
Gee, you can hardly see the strings.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 6:34 pm:
“OMG! Is it? In the back of the room, my dear friend Barbra Streisand! C’mon up, Babs. No, c’mon. We’ll do a duet!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 6:37 pm:
“We called him Senator Two-Times, ’cause he said everything twice.”
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 6:44 pm:
I understand that two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
- Holdingontomywallet - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 8:26 pm:
“Don’t you know my father is the Speaker? Now proceed to bow before me!”
- lost in the weeds - Wednesday, Jul 15, 15 @ 10:11 pm:
“This is how I hold in my hands the state constitution when I read it –but now I seem not to be able to find it. GGGhheeeshh anyone seen it or have a copy?”
- Late to the Party - Thursday, Jul 16, 15 @ 6:33 am:
“My dad says …”
- William Jennings Bryan - Thursday, Jul 16, 15 @ 6:49 am:
This is the Church. This the….