Tuesday, Dec 15, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Speaker Madigan and Paul Green…
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:37 pm:
“Slow down there, Speed Racer, I have a few more shots at the Trib to take, then questions…”
- Dome Gnome - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
“I’ve been practicing how to laugh in moderation.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:39 pm:
“Evelyn, easy… Easy… there’s the chair.. got it?… No, just sit… easy… easy… There.”
- Kerfuffle - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:40 pm:
Throw me the ball governor - I’ll run with it!
- Concerned - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:41 pm:
Paul Green thought bubble: “This is the City Club of Chicago–I can’t say the things in this question submitted by Goldberg!”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:42 pm:
Hey! Here!… No… no, just toss the Apple right up here… “
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:42 pm:
This is not tomorrow’s news
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:44 pm:
- Kerfuffle - great minds.
“Oh, ok, ‘Field Goal’ (holds hands, preparing for paper triangle football to be “kicked”)
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:44 pm:
Tossing the political football.
#hut-hut-HIKE-Mike.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
Showing my bulldog shadow puppet
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:47 pm:
“The reason I haven’t tweeted from ‘At Speaker Madigan’ for almost two years is because… I’m not on The Twitter… You understand?”
- Ghost - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:49 pm:
the tax increase target i want painted in my back should be this big
- Dave Dahl - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:54 pm:
“It’s just a jump to the left …”
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:57 pm:
Simply put, Governor Rauner wants to lower wages, to take them from up there and bring them down to here.
- Stones - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:58 pm:
“I’m as frustrated as you are that the Sox aren’t going anywhere as long as Ventura is our Manager”
- Dave Dahl - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:00 pm:
“You can take that question, and you can put it in the ash can!”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:02 pm:
“Hold it right there. You recording this?”
- Beaner - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
My favorite apple? My favorite apple is the Goldrush. Yeah, picked after a killing frost. You know they were developed by an Arborist at the University of Illinois. Yeah, they are the best, hands down.
- Skeptic - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
“Robbie Gould’s holder takes the snap like this…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
“Lance! Stop tweeting pictures of me”
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:13 pm:
“See? I told you my hands were clean.”
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:13 pm:
“I’m getting to it, relax, who’s telling the joke here?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
“Wait, just hold it one second. I’m here to speak. I was told there’d be no math today… “
- Huh? - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
To massage the budget, you have to hold your hands like this…
- pool boy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
And that’s why they call it a double dribble.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:25 pm:
And so, in conclusion, I’d just like to say, these are not the droids you’re looking for.
- Ahoy! - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
I don’t want takes to raise more than the number of fingers on my hands.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
“It’s all done with wires and tiny motors. This gizmo goes in my mouth, see, then I press a button and get a fairly lifelike smile.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
“Ravioli THIS big! You really have to try it some time.”
- Bogey Golfer - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
Had this dream last night where I……….then I woke up.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
“You can go up or you can go down. But you can’t go sideways. The State is already going sideways.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
“Now look, Mr. Reeder. I already answered your question about the chicken or the egg. I’m not gonna answer any more ‘gotcha’ questions. Got it?”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
Stay off the loop it’s full of grass Bowls
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
“Pat, I told you twice to stop throwing soybeans at me. Don’t make me come over there.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
“Yes, I read the Enquirer article about Mr. Goldberg having a higher I.Q. than Einstein, but let’s remember…it IS the Enquirer.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
“OODA? Are you sure you don’t mean oompa loompa?”
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
Rauner said 10?
It’s a 10 finger death punch. Saw it on Badlands.
If you stretch the strings this way they are harder for the next person to get them off your hand
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:26 pm:
“No sense of humor? I beg to differ. Obviously you’ve never seen my You Tube video of me dancing Gangnam Style.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
“Please calm down, sir. You read your schedule wrong. Rich Miller will be here NEXT week.”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
Pushing always ends in shoving
- Empty Suit - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Hey look Mike Madigan and Mike Huckabee!
- DuPage Don - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mary Ann, didn’t you learn your lesson from the July 15th press conference when I schooled you on the pay raise question?
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:16 pm:
I’d start with closing the tax loop holes
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:30 pm:
I have a candidate? I thought it was a muppet from sesame street
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:43 pm:
Not having public meetings keeps the voters out of the loop
- Common tater - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 7:25 pm:
Then I faked right … Then continued left !!!
- Just Me - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 8:43 pm:
I once passed a tax increase “THIS BIG”.
- Quizzical - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 9:37 pm:
As you can see, whenever I talk about sound policy and budgeting, even the goo goo professors fall asleep.
That’s why I’ve come to rely on hinky deals with ward bosses, ballot shennanigans and patronage goons.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 10:28 pm:
I think we can squeeze the primary between St Patrick parade and St Patrick day
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Dec 16, 15 @ 12:03 am:
That Goldberg really knock’s me for a loop
- Man with a plan - Wednesday, Dec 16, 15 @ 8:21 am:
Hadoken!
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- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:37 pm:
“Slow down there, Speed Racer, I have a few more shots at the Trib to take, then questions…”
- Dome Gnome - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:38 pm:
“I’ve been practicing how to laugh in moderation.”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:39 pm:
“Evelyn, easy… Easy… there’s the chair.. got it?… No, just sit… easy… easy… There.”
- Kerfuffle - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:40 pm:
Throw me the ball governor - I’ll run with it!
- Concerned - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:41 pm:
Paul Green thought bubble: “This is the City Club of Chicago–I can’t say the things in this question submitted by Goldberg!”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:42 pm:
Hey! Here!… No… no, just toss the Apple right up here… “
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:42 pm:
This is not tomorrow’s news
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:44 pm:
- Kerfuffle - great minds.
“Oh, ok, ‘Field Goal’ (holds hands, preparing for paper triangle football to be “kicked”)
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:44 pm:
Tossing the political football.
#hut-hut-HIKE-Mike.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:46 pm:
Showing my bulldog shadow puppet
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:47 pm:
“The reason I haven’t tweeted from ‘At Speaker Madigan’ for almost two years is because… I’m not on The Twitter… You understand?”
- Ghost - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:49 pm:
the tax increase target i want painted in my back should be this big
- Dave Dahl - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:54 pm:
“It’s just a jump to the left …”
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:57 pm:
Simply put, Governor Rauner wants to lower wages, to take them from up there and bring them down to here.
- Stones - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 12:58 pm:
“I’m as frustrated as you are that the Sox aren’t going anywhere as long as Ventura is our Manager”
- Dave Dahl - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:00 pm:
“You can take that question, and you can put it in the ash can!”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:02 pm:
“Hold it right there. You recording this?”
- Beaner - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
My favorite apple? My favorite apple is the Goldrush. Yeah, picked after a killing frost. You know they were developed by an Arborist at the University of Illinois. Yeah, they are the best, hands down.
- Skeptic - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:03 pm:
“Robbie Gould’s holder takes the snap like this…”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:10 pm:
“Lance! Stop tweeting pictures of me”
- @MisterJayEm - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:13 pm:
“See? I told you my hands were clean.”
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:13 pm:
“I’m getting to it, relax, who’s telling the joke here?”
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
“Wait, just hold it one second. I’m here to speak. I was told there’d be no math today… “
- Huh? - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:14 pm:
To massage the budget, you have to hold your hands like this…
- pool boy - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:16 pm:
And that’s why they call it a double dribble.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:25 pm:
And so, in conclusion, I’d just like to say, these are not the droids you’re looking for.
- Ahoy! - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 1:31 pm:
I don’t want takes to raise more than the number of fingers on my hands.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:04 pm:
“It’s all done with wires and tiny motors. This gizmo goes in my mouth, see, then I press a button and get a fairly lifelike smile.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
“Ravioli THIS big! You really have to try it some time.”
- Bogey Golfer - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:05 pm:
Had this dream last night where I……….then I woke up.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:06 pm:
“You can go up or you can go down. But you can’t go sideways. The State is already going sideways.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
“Now look, Mr. Reeder. I already answered your question about the chicken or the egg. I’m not gonna answer any more ‘gotcha’ questions. Got it?”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:12 pm:
Stay off the loop it’s full of grass Bowls
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:13 pm:
“Pat, I told you twice to stop throwing soybeans at me. Don’t make me come over there.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:18 pm:
“Yes, I read the Enquirer article about Mr. Goldberg having a higher I.Q. than Einstein, but let’s remember…it IS the Enquirer.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:22 pm:
“OODA? Are you sure you don’t mean oompa loompa?”
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:23 pm:
Rauner said 10?
It’s a 10 finger death punch. Saw it on Badlands.
If you stretch the strings this way they are harder for the next person to get them off your hand
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:26 pm:
“No sense of humor? I beg to differ. Obviously you’ve never seen my You Tube video of me dancing Gangnam Style.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:31 pm:
“Please calm down, sir. You read your schedule wrong. Rich Miller will be here NEXT week.”
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 2:49 pm:
Pushing always ends in shoving
- Empty Suit - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:02 pm:
Hey look Mike Madigan and Mike Huckabee!
- DuPage Don - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:11 pm:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Mary Ann, didn’t you learn your lesson from the July 15th press conference when I schooled you on the pay raise question?
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:16 pm:
I’d start with closing the tax loop holes
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:30 pm:
I have a candidate? I thought it was a muppet from sesame street
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 3:43 pm:
Not having public meetings keeps the voters out of the loop
- Common tater - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 7:25 pm:
Then I faked right … Then continued left !!!
- Just Me - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 8:43 pm:
I once passed a tax increase “THIS BIG”.
- Quizzical - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 9:37 pm:
As you can see, whenever I talk about sound policy and budgeting, even the goo goo professors fall asleep.
That’s why I’ve come to rely on hinky deals with ward bosses, ballot shennanigans and patronage goons.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Dec 15, 15 @ 10:28 pm:
I think we can squeeze the primary between St Patrick parade and St Patrick day
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Dec 16, 15 @ 12:03 am:
That Goldberg really knock’s me for a loop
- Man with a plan - Wednesday, Dec 16, 15 @ 8:21 am:
Hadoken!