You called me here to answer a question about credit downgrades? I’m the master of overseeing these downgrades. I mean, really, what has it been, 20, 25 , 50??? I can’t keep track of ‘em.
Speaker Madigan stares and cannot respond to the fake Governor’s quote “Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you are part of a team, everything is awesome.”
My picture a Capitol Fax question of the day contest again? That Rich Miller is never going to get another interview again.
- Nero says let it burn - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:52 am:
As local schools prep for class sizes approaching 40 children, and state agencies confirm that they have run out of toilet paper, the epic 200 mile Rauner v Madigan staring contest continues. Both men seem content to wait eachother out despite warnings from public health officials and optometrists that the damage may indeed be permanent.
I’ve run the gamut, A to Z
Three cheers and dammit, C’est la vie
I got through all of last year, and I’m here
Lord knows, at least I was there, and I’m here
Look who’s here, I’m still here.
Madigan: I haven’t got a brain… only straw.
Rauner: How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?
Madigan: I don’t know… But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?
Rauner: Yes, I guess you’re right.
“Good question, young man. When I’m not busy meeting with world leaders, you can often find me with my daughter, enjoying a stirring game of Parcheesi.”
“Well, if your bond rating goes down, then you have to declare bankruptcy, nobody’s going to loan you money anyway, so it’s all a moot point, you see?”
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:21 am:
Yes I have a prepared statement. Yes it is the same one I read last week. But this time, my tie is blue….
- Not Rich - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:21 am:
“Do I look like someone who says I GIVE”????
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:22 am:
“Do you like apples?”
– MrJM
- Almost the Weekend - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:22 am:
Been there done that
- Stuck on the 3rd Floor - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:23 am:
“Two words-’BBB+’ruce Rauner.”
- Juice - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:23 am:
When asked about the passage of legislation releasing MFT dollars so the locals can fix up their roads, Madigan replied,
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need…roads.”
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:24 am:
I like blue
- D - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:24 am:
Yes my hair is thinning. What do you expect from dealing with this newbie on the second floor.
- Silent Budgeteer - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:26 am:
“I find your lack of faith….disturbing.”
- anon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:28 am:
You called me here to answer a question about credit downgrades? I’m the master of overseeing these downgrades. I mean, really, what has it been, 20, 25 , 50??? I can’t keep track of ‘em.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:29 am:
Jim Edgar agrees with me. Further proof that if you live long enough, you will in fact see everything.
- Cheswick - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:29 am:
Trance?
- Cheswick - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:30 am:
Mike Madigan subliminally hypnotizes the Statehouse press corps.
- anon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:31 am:
As my good friend OW says, I OWN these credit downgrades!! The same way the Mets pitchers OWNED the Cubs!
- anon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:32 am:
Credit downgrade? Why would you ask me?
- Charlie Foxtrot - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:33 am:
No, I don’t count standing next to the Governor in the Mens Room as a meeting. Next question?
- skeptical - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:36 am:
I’m doing the best I can with what I’ve been given to work with.
- Not quite a majority - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:38 am:
It’s all Bruce Rauner’s fault and the 2 minority caucuses he controls.
- Give Me A Break - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:38 am:
Look I’m going to you this one time, and one time only. The only reason I do these press things is to keep Brownie from making stuff up.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:39 am:
“Would you please shut those headlights off? I find them distracting.”
- 360 Degree TurnAround - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:40 am:
Speaker Madigan stares and cannot respond to the fake Governor’s quote “Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you are part of a team, everything is awesome.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:40 am:
“Yes, it IS true that my hair was brown in May.”
- LizPhairTax - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:40 am:
The Moodys say we’re doing just fine. Both of them.
- Wordslinger - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:44 am:
“Fava beans and a nice Chianti? Maybe I’ll try that….”
- Huh? - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:45 am:
My picture a Capitol Fax question of the day contest again? That Rich Miller is never going to get another interview again.
- Nero says let it burn - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:52 am:
As local schools prep for class sizes approaching 40 children, and state agencies confirm that they have run out of toilet paper, the epic 200 mile Rauner v Madigan staring contest continues. Both men seem content to wait eachother out despite warnings from public health officials and optometrists that the damage may indeed be permanent.
- LincolnLounger - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:53 am:
I’ve run the gamut, A to Z
Three cheers and dammit, C’est la vie
I got through all of last year, and I’m here
Lord knows, at least I was there, and I’m here
Look who’s here, I’m still here.
- Anderson Villy - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:55 am:
Apples are red
Ties are blue
I’ve got 70
What about Bruce?
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:56 am:
Game face on
- Das Man - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:57 am:
Illinois Strongman v Strawman
Madigan: I haven’t got a brain… only straw.
Rauner: How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?
Madigan: I don’t know… But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?
Rauner: Yes, I guess you’re right.
FINALLY something to agree on
- PolPal56 - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 10:59 am:
“My granddaughter visited last night and had glitter hair gel. I didn’t notice that she’d left it by the sink. Next question.”
- PolPal56 - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:01 am:
New, improved Speaker Madigan - with fiber optic hair!
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:03 am:
“Moody’s is operating in the extreme”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:08 am:
What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
- PolPal56 - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:10 am:
“How do I get my hair this shiny? Eggs. Just take one in the shower every morning and crack it over my head.”
- Political Animal - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:21 am:
“Please ignore all history and blame the new guy…”
Also:
*Holds up Cookie Crumb Covered Hands*
“It wasn’t me!!!”
- Spaulding - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:22 am:
Is it that high?
- Wensicia - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:25 am:
Jim Edgar said what?!
- A guy - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:32 am:
The eyes are the window to the soul. In the absence of a soul, I’ve provided a blue tie in it’s stead.
- Dan S - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:44 am:
What?????????
- Tequila Mockingbird - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:46 am:
Like a deer in the headlights.
Of an 18 wheeler, with a psycho meth head driver at the wheel,
…and no brakes.
- the old man - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 11:59 am:
I am not sure that Bruce understands finance.
- burbanite - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 12:36 pm:
Because Rauner and the superstars he controls….
- Third Reading - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
“Fitch says BBB- ? Why yes, it IS Barbara Byrd-Bennett’s fault!”
“And Moody’s has us at Baa1? Humbug!”
I’m outta here.
- Anon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 12:39 pm:
Turn down? For what?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 12:48 pm:
“Good question, young man. When I’m not busy meeting with world leaders, you can often find me with my daughter, enjoying a stirring game of Parcheesi.”
- Union Man - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
What? Me Worry!
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
Did you just say Goldberg?
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:32 pm:
“No, I believe everything that goes down eventually comes back up. That’s why I’m holding onto my stock in Acme Rotary Phone Company.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:34 pm:
“What? The dry summer means a spike in apple prices?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:35 pm:
“Ms. Vinicky, you know as I do that styles in neckties come and go–just like governors.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 1:44 pm:
“Explain again why I would want to hire this Monty Hall person as a consultant?”
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:01 pm:
Grass bowel not a bowel of grass?
- illinoised - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:02 pm:
“I can wait longer than you. Watch me.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
I will make you blink first
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:07 pm:
I have ice water in my veins you can’t make me bleed
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
“I know this face is just begging to have a pie thrown at it, but you don’t have a pie with you, do you? I didn’t think so.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
“Well, if your bond rating goes down, then you have to declare bankruptcy, nobody’s going to loan you money anyway, so it’s all a moot point, you see?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:26 pm:
“I believe I have a handkerchief made by Carhartt, if that qualifies as a piece of clothing.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:28 pm:
“A Most-Hated-Man-In-Illinois Contest? Interesting concept, but would the winner actually be the loser, or would the losers, in fact, be the winners?”
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:39 pm:
I havn’t blinked since June
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 2:51 pm:
You tell me if I’m dealing with governor Rauner or citizen Rauner?
- Timmeh - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 3:25 pm:
“Yeah I’m upset, but am I willing to do anything about it? No, not right now.”
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 3:29 pm:
Munger’s bringing baloney and the cookie jar what do you prefer?
- Ginhouse Tommy - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 3:36 pm:
looks like one of the residents of whoville after the grinch stole the Christmas tree or some guy trying out for the movie Grump Old Men
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 23, 15 @ 3:52 pm:
The governor said you were afraid to debate him publicly