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Thursday, Jul 30, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller

* The pic…

* The Question: Caption?

       

83 Comments
  1. - @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:05 pm:

    “He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”

    – MrJM


  2. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:08 pm:

    “… And then Ron Sandack went..’Who…Who’… just like that… ‘Who… Who”….


  3. - @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:10 pm:

    “No. No, you misunderstood. I said the pay raise rollback bill is ‘blatantly FUNconstitutional’.”

    – MrJM


  4. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:12 pm:

    “Before I begin, I’ll first read to you Gov. Rauner’s response to my remarks I haven’t made yet…”


  5. - Anonymous - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:13 pm:

    “These things? No, no, they’re not strings, don’t be silly”


  6. - Blago's Hare - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:15 pm:

    You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.


  7. - Archiesmom - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:17 pm:

    If looks could kill…


  8. - My FiNgErS HuRt - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:17 pm:

    “Hey, Mike! Come here, and hear me make owl noises! Co-co-co-co-co.”


  9. - phocion - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:19 pm:

    MJM: “Is that all you do? Bird imitations?”


  10. - My FiNgErS HuRt - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:21 pm:

    “Pucker up!!”


  11. - Joe M - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:21 pm:

    It seems like I’m always looking over my shoulder


  12. - Robert the Bruce - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:22 pm:

    MisterJayEm 2:10 or OW at 2:12, both brilliant!


  13. - How Ironic - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:24 pm:

    @ OW, 2:12, simply masterful.


  14. - Das Man - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:25 pm:

    Whistling Dixie


  15. - Davos Seaworth - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:25 pm:

    Madigan to Cullerton, by telepathy

    It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, are mine.


  16. - Give Me A Break - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:27 pm:

    I will now explain what unicameral means.


  17. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:27 pm:

    “President Cullerton, would you support similar legislation proposed by the governor? Which would you choose?”

    JC : But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of Governor is he the sort of man who would put the poison pill into his own legislation or not? Now, a clever man would NOT put the poison pill his own legislation, because he would know that only a great fool would vote for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the bill proposed by the Governor. But the governor must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the bill I am proposing. He’ll veto it.

    “So have you decided which bill to run?”

    JC: Not remotely. Because some of Rauner’s staff comes from Indiana, as everyone knows, and Indiana is entirely governed by Republicans, and Republicans are used to having voters wanting different priorities, different core values, and those core values aren’t shared by me, so I can clearly not choose the Rauner bill.

    “You truly as a dizzying political philosophy to choosing bills”

    JC: Wait till I get going! Now, where was I?

    “Indiana”

    JC: Yes, Indiana. And the Governor must suspect I would have known the bill’s origin, so I can clearly not choose the bill he’s proposing…


  18. - My FiNgErS HuRt - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:31 pm:

    “OoOoOoOo so that’s what a balanced budget looks like…”


  19. - Wensicia - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:32 pm:

    “It’s gonna be OK, Madigan’s got my back.”


  20. - Under Further Review - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:32 pm:

    It’s Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy!

    (I thought that the ventriloquist is supposed to drink a glass of water or eat an apple while the dummy is talking to impress the skeptical members of the audience).


  21. - Downstate GOP - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:36 pm:

    “Every breath you take and every move you make
    Every bond you break, every step you take, I’ll be watching you
    Every single day and every word you say
    Every game you play, every night you stay, I’ll be watching you”


  22. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:37 pm:

    “I don’t believe in triangles, I like things fair and square…”


  23. - the old man - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:39 pm:

    Who said you could speak first?


  24. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:39 pm:

    “Compared to the Speaker? Well, the governor doesn’t call me ‘chief’, that makes me sad…”


  25. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:42 pm:

    Thanks for the props. Low hanger.

    “I understand I don’t understand how the Governor thinks, how about that? He reads from a paper during our meetings. What’s that? I dunno…”


  26. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:42 pm:

    When he does that, my voice goes up an octave, so pardon me.


  27. - Working for the people - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:43 pm:

    11:57 a.m.-
    JC: oops, sorry…! (Knocks apple from podium)


  28. - NeverPoliticallyCorrect - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:44 pm:

    The day may come brothers and sister when we make decisions in the best interest of all Illinois. When no one person runs this state and when I won’t have to worry about not offending a speakers daughter. But this is not that day! This day we do nothing and continue to let our state slide into the black hole of political suicide!


  29. - DuPage Don - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:45 pm:

    Yes, we’re the same leadership team that signed off on the 2015 FY budget that was $1.6 billion out of balance but they keep sending us back here so deal with it…


  30. - Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:48 pm:

    Thanks for waiting on that salary bill, Mike.


  31. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:49 pm:

    We, Speaker Madigan and I, want to thank the governor for signing the Education Appropiation after every Republican in the General Assembly didn’t. That’s a gift, so thanks…


  32. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:50 pm:

    He told me to whistle.


  33. - Empty Suit - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:50 pm:

    “Governor when your ready to negotiate all you have to do is pucker up and whistle like this..”


  34. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:51 pm:

    When did I last talk to the Governor? It’s July, right… ooooo, good question…”


  35. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:53 pm:

    Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes. He’s not there. It’s my thought bubble.


  36. - funny how? - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:53 pm:

    Oswego Willy at 2:27: I laughed out loud, thanks.


  37. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:53 pm:

    I told the governor, “You want Our help, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you governor, you just put your lips together…”. He didn’t get it.


  38. - Amalia - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:54 pm:

    Yes, you are the godfather, but I am the Godfather.


  39. - Steve - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 2:58 pm:

    “People mistake me for Jimmy DeLeo all the time. Mistakes are made.”


  40. - walker - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:09 pm:

    “Don’t push me!”


  41. - Quizzical - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:11 pm:

    I’m 100% sure we’d have a deal if Rauner wasn’t involved.


  42. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:21 pm:

    What I’ve learned in these many years is that to launch your own boat, you have to first untie from the dock.

    Sometimes the dock won’t cooperate.


  43. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:25 pm:

    “Would I like to trade Caucuses with the Speaker? Nooooo!”


  44. - Mittuns - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:29 pm:

    Post Traumatic Speaker Disorder.


  45. - Mittuns - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:35 pm:

    He’s not there, it’s just a dream. He’s not there, it’s just a dream. He’s not there, it’s just a dream.


  46. - South Central - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:41 pm:

    Behind every successful man is a…hmmm, an even more successful man?


  47. - White Denim - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:42 pm:

    @Downstate GOP,

    Just a fun fact: that song was #1 on the Billboard charts the year Mike Madigan became Speaker. The music and the hair and the clothes have changed. The man, on the other hand…


  48. - LBJ - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:45 pm:

    Cullerton: “I think we should be negotiating on the budget and on the non-budget items.The best way to do that is to sit down and negotiate and not engage in campaign tactics.”

    Madigan thinking to himself:

    Just plug me in just like I was eddie harris
    You’re eating crazy cheese like you’d think I’m from paris
    You know I get fly you think I get high
    You know that I’m gone and I’m a tell you all why
    So tell me who are you dissing maybe I’m missing
    The reason that you’re smiling or wilding
    So listen in my head I just want to take ‘em down
    Imagination set loose and I’m gonna shake ‘em down
    Let it flow like a mud slide
    When I get on I like to ride and glide
    I’ve got depth of perception in my text y’all
    I get props at my mention ’cause I vex y’all
    So what’cha what’cha what’cha want what’cha want
    I get so funny with the money that you flaunt
    I said where’d you get your information from huh?
    You think that you can front when revelation comes

    You can’t front on that


  49. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:46 pm:

    “Yes, I’m the one with the cell phone…”


  50. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:49 pm:

    “Noooo, that Tom, I’m John…”


  51. - Wordslinger - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:51 pm:

    “T-t-t-t-today, junior!”


  52. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:52 pm:

    Me and Maxi-me.


  53. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:53 pm:

    “That’s all I havta say ’bout that…”


  54. - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:54 pm:

    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I’ve come to talk with you again
    Because a vision softly creeping
    Left its seeds while I was sleeping
    And the vision that was planted
    In my brain still remains
    Within the sound of silence


  55. - Enviro - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:57 pm:

    “Mind tricks don’t work on me.”


  56. - Keyrock - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 3:59 pm:

    Madigan: “How did he get @statehousechick to post a column siding with him over Rauner?”


  57. - Ipso Facto - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:00 pm:

    Here let me put into focus … Mike & I will meet the Governor at a halfway house.”


  58. - Ipso Facto - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:08 pm:

    “Mr. Trebeck, the answer is … zero. I’ll take “Where is the Governor for $500.”


  59. - A guy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:11 pm:

    I just know the guy “we all” call RM is going to use this for a caption contest.


  60. - Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:12 pm:

    ==No, Mike, I don’t like them apples.==


  61. - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:13 pm:

    “Yes, you heard me correctly. We will be living out our rock-n-roll dream and have formed an Air Supply cover band. We will open for the Boat Drink Caucus.”


  62. - Formerly Known As... - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:16 pm:

    ==Next year we might go for the triple-triple. Never heard of that?

    No, not a triple-double, a triple-triple.

    Three years, three budgets, all unbalanced. Don’t think we won’t do it.==


  63. - Ipso Facto - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:17 pm:

    “Sooo, If I understand correctly … the new catchy Rauner cheer is “I’ve got da’ money. And I play hard. Listen to me now ’cause I’ll call da’ National Guard.”


  64. - William - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:18 pm:

    Seriously?


  65. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:24 pm:

    “Oooo. That pastry looks good…”


  66. - Union Man - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:24 pm:

    Twiddle Dee and Twiddle DUMB!


  67. - Huh? - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:30 pm:

    The magician is always seen through a haze.


  68. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:31 pm:

    “Oooh. Dat was the sowewest apple I ewer tasted!”


  69. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:33 pm:

    “Hey, my eyes… are up here… Helloooo”


  70. - Honeybear - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:36 pm:

    It puts the lotion in the basket


  71. - Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:43 pm:

    Noooooo…. He’s the Speaker of the Illinois House, NOT the Former US Speaker of the House from Illinois.


  72. - burbanite - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 4:45 pm:

    Toora, Loora, Loora Toora, loora, loora Toora, loora, li Toora, loora, loora Hush, now, don’t you cry Ah, Toora, loora, loora Toora, loora, li….


  73. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:03 pm:

    “Thank you! For my next psychic demonstration, I will attempt to materialize a famous Illinois political personality. The image is getting sharper…sharper…Can you see it yet?”


  74. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:04 pm:

    “No, that’s not true at all. I’ve personally SEEN him laugh. Granted, it was several years go…”


  75. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:08 pm:

    “It might be argued that “President” SOUNDS more impressive than “Speaker”, but no, I wouldn’t personally make that argument.”


  76. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:13 pm:

    “Yes, I have told the Governor that he needs to cut back on the Slim-Fast and start drinking real milkshakes, but as you all know, the Governor doesn’t take advice from me.”


  77. - Phenomynous - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:15 pm:

    Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
    Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
    Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
    Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
    Master
    Master


  78. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 5:16 pm:

    “Sure. I’d be happy to do my Slim Whitman impression.”


  79. - cez - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 6:15 pm:

    In strong Italian accent”hey….yah knowah..whyah izah makeah myah mouth likah fishah? Itszah becauzah imah trying to letah youah knowah that if youah dontah makah myah boss happy, the guyah behindah me, then yuzah be swimmin’ withah da fishes..CAPISH!?”


  80. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 6:51 pm:

    “Me? Oswego Willy? Why, why, we’ve been seen in the same room together…sometime…I’m sure. Absurd! Me? No way. YOU believe me, don’t you, Mike? Mike?”


  81. - Austin Blvd - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 8:10 pm:

    “He’s a good kid with a bright future.”


  82. - Modest Proposal - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 9:15 pm:

    “See You Next Tuesday, Madigan and Cullerton”

    I remain sincerely yours,

    CK


  83. - Southsider - Thursday, Jul 30, 15 @ 10:33 pm:

    These are not the droids you’re looking for.


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