105 Comments - WutBudget - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:21 pm: when someone mentions compromise…. - Mouthy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:21 pm: “Talk to the hand, it says 5 Billion”.. - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:23 pm: “I expect Sen. Radogno to pick up five seats this year.” - Zoe - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:25 pm: radogno’s thinking: so this is what it’s like when you sell your soul to the devil. - A guy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:25 pm: Family Feud; We’re gonna play Steve. - Independent retiree/lawyer/journalist - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:26 pm: You don’t think I’m telling the truth???!!!! - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:27 pm: This is how many mailers I plan on sending out against Senator McCann. - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:28 pm: This is how many Super Bowls the great Tom Brady will have if he wins Super Bowl 50. - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:28 pm: Daniel San - wax on, wax off. - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:29 pm: These are the savings you are looking for. - DuPage - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:29 pm: Rauner gothic. - Step Dad - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:29 pm: “The General Assembly has five seconds to pass my Turn Around Agenda. Five… Four .. Three .” - Team Sleep - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:29 pm: And now my Oswego Willy style run on comments has come to an end. Stay warm, Cap Fax community. - Mama - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:30 pm: Sen. Radogno seems very happy with the boss’s announcement. - Kurt in Springfield - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:30 pm: Count ‘em One. - Under Influenced - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:31 pm: See my hand….five fingers. Each finger can save a billion. That’s $5 billion. My hand saving us billions is the most critical issue we need to focus on….did you look at my fingers yet?? - jls - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:31 pm: I know billions and no union is worth a billion. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:31 pm: “Whoa, slow down Spoed Racer, I’m the idea guy, I don’t know about the policy… “ - @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:32 pm: “See? There’s no blood on my hands. No. No, you can’t look at my other hand. Next question?” – MrJM - Beaner - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:33 pm: Rauner: “Last year I presented a budget which in hindsight was overly optimistic on Budget cutting. Sorry, but there was simply less fraud waste and abuse than I had been lead to believe. So we are short $5 billion in Revenue. The Senate Minority Leader is here to go over our $5 billion tax hike plan. She and I are in complete agreement to the need of the tax hikes, just like Cullerton and I are in complete agreement on an unconstitutional Pension Fraud plan.” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:33 pm: “No, I told the Chicago Teachers Union, I didn’t clout my suburban denied daughter into Payton Prep, no sir, no, her test scores, test scores got her into a Chicago school… not me… “ - Earnest - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:33 pm: Business negotiation rule 1: point your fingers at everyone but yourself. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:34 pm: “You ask Donny Sandack, Donny speaks for himself. I don’t tell him anything… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:37 pm: “No… No… Diana endorsed me… you can’t blame her that she’s runs an non- profit organization and endorsed me abd I am just killin’, just totally killin’ social service groups. That’s all on her. Diana did that… Not me” - Sangamo Sam - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:37 pm: “They’re not workin’ for their district. They take money from the Chicago political machine. You watch. I got twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin’ what each one is, to be used as evidence against ‘em!” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:38 pm: “Stop right there, you think I… care? You think I care… That’s on you… “ - Bill White - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:40 pm: Rauner: I expect Sen. Radogno to pick up five seats this year. Has anybody figured out whether that’s enough for her to be majority leader? Radogno: I have. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:41 pm: “I own a very small… Very small part of the Steelers… abd the Bulls, sure…. and the Red Sox… Yeah, I have a piece of each team… But I’m like everyone else… See, “ - RNUG - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:41 pm: STOP with the questions already - AC - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:43 pm: Having tried everything else to get his anti union agenda moving forward, Governor Rauner tried karaoke, singing: Stop in the name of love Before you break my heart Stop in the name of love Before you break my heart Think it over Think it over - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:43 pm: “I’ll take your questions… I’ll take your questions! K?!… Just let me say this; you can’t hurt me, but I can and will hurt you…. “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:44 pm: “Rahm is whatever I want him to be… Got it?” - How Ironic - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:44 pm: I have 5 policies that Sen. Radogno and I will be discussing in a few minutes. I can assure you that she will be agreeing with me on all of them, regardless of any statements she makes after that. Seriously, she’ll agree. - No Longer A Lurker - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:44 pm: “Yep, 5. I will have 5 glasses of wine tonight. It’s been a very bad day” - Huh? - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:45 pm: Nearly 5 more months until the next fiscal year and then the problems with this fiscal year will be history. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:45 pm: “So that’s 5 strawberry shakes, right? Anyone want fries?” - flippy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:45 pm: “My hand, or her head. Which looks bigger to you?” - TD - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:46 pm: “For the last time, people…please stop throwing tomatoes!” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:47 pm: “I don’t have 5 Education Czars or whatever. I have two highly priced people with ambiguous job disruptions. Not 5″ - Sangamo Sam - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:48 pm: “This is the hand I put on the Bible swearing to uphold the Illinois Constitution. I….I can’t move it anymore.” - How Ironic - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:48 pm: I spoke with Cullerton 5 times on the phone this morning. He agreed with me 3 times verbally, so that’s like agreeing to the 15th power. Sen. Radogno please nod politely now. - Johnnie F. - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:49 pm: You see this one to my left…she gets it. I only had to tell her once…not five times. She knows will bury her if need be. - Losing My Edge - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:52 pm: **Stops speech mid-sentence, thinks: How many work days? That’s right. One more news cycle and I’m clam bakin’ the heck outta the trash can van. I wonder what Dave Rothschild’s up to. - Triple fat - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:53 pm: I don’t know Governor. Are our money managers going to trade on the riskless principal basis? Are they going to keep the spread or start trading profits? It’s kind of difficult to make a decent return on your investments when you money managers are employing those shady tactics. What do you think? - Dome Gnome - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:53 pm: “I got five standing ovations just this morning.” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:54 pm: “And listen, do me a favor. No more advice on how to patch things up, just help me win, please. All right?” - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:54 pm: Good morning boys work work work - Zoe - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:55 pm: this is my puppet master hand out here so it’s not down there. that’s why radogno looks lifeless. - Jeff Trigg - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 4:58 pm: He’s the best thing to happen for incompetent Illinois Democrats since George Ryan. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:00 pm: “Again, I’m not a Republican, I’m a Raunerite, head Raunerite, k?” - Triple fat - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:01 pm: I truly believe if the State would conduct a forensic audit of each of the transactioal trades placed on our behalf- restitution payments and penalties would straighten out all of our pension problems. Do you know that some firms even have a computer program designed to falsify trade times and price? It makes me sick Governor… It makes me sick. - Wensicia - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:03 pm: Rauner: “By the time I’m finished, I’ll easily win the John Kass Moutza of the Month!” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:04 pm: “I don’t want to decimate unions, I want to end them. Did you get that right now?” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:05 pm: “Budgets are for those who worry about money. Guess what? I don’t worry about money. K?” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:07 pm: “Don’t panic, everyone, she’s fine. Evelyn is just trying to help by creatin’ a PI case against the state, you can get up now Ev, we’re all witnesses…” - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:07 pm: I’am going to scream if I hear turnaround again! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:08 pm: “My five homes that have pools are off-limits to Ken Dunkin… “ - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:10 pm: I’am now going to grab my foot and put it in my mouth - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:12 pm: “Kristen, even I think that hurricane thing was a bit loopy How about… you ask your question again. This time… without all the hurricane stuff, k?” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:14 pm: “I know OF Dan Proft, but to link… ME… to him, and my good friend Mr. Uihlein, I have to stop you there. That’s not what’s goin’ on, you have my word… “ - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:15 pm: “That was from a newspaper? Stop, you know I don’t read newspapers… “ - Cheswick - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:16 pm: Rauner explains the five finger discount as it relates to his pension reform. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:18 pm: Radogno thinking: Yeah, I’m not smiling, and I know he’s lying, but as I now regret, he’s already bought or coerced me. Can’t ya see it in my face? - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:20 pm: Watch me make Goldberg disappear poof - Cheswick - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:20 pm: Aside from the caption contest: Why does everyone look so grim when they get on stage with Rauner? - Enviro - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:25 pm: Another day, another five hostages for my turnaround agenda. - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:26 pm: Throw that tennis ball my way dunkin - Stumpy's bunker - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:33 pm: (Sigh)…”If this guy ever goes away, I can BE somebody”. - GraduatedCollegeStudent - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:35 pm: Yes! That’s how many white students graduated from Chicago State in six years! - Stumpy's bunker - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:36 pm: “AGAIN…Here I stand again. This elitist won’t even read the Illinois Constitution”. - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:39 pm: 5% tax would be a good place to start - Chicago 20 - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:39 pm: Yes that’s right, five out of six is 83%. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:40 pm: “No one told me ‘Dad’s Home State’ is a union production. I though SAG was a discription of somethin’…” - Stumpy's bunker - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:42 pm: “Here we go again. Next time, I’m wearing a paper bag over my head and will represent the ‘Anonymous Republican Leader’”. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:47 pm: == Rauner says proposed pension reform will save taxpayers $1B == Raunner: “But there’s NO chance that I’m gonna tell you WHEN.” - Feed - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:47 pm: Five, yes FIVE! That’s how many state employees we have willing to give up their retirement COLAs for my new pension reform! - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:54 pm: This is how I will rip the guts out of Indiana - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 5:56 pm: No this is not a cash grab - PENSIONS ARE OFF LIMITS - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:06 pm: “I can wear these pants five times before they need ironin’.” - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:07 pm: No she don’t speak until I pat her on her head like this - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:27 pm: I always win handly - How Ironic - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:39 pm: And so with great pleasure I present to you the Sen. Radogno & Cullerton $5 Footlong Pension Plan(TM) - BurblingBurbs - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:44 pm: “Look, just. No one move, you could step on them. Just- let’s everyone just start lookin’ for my g’s and then we can go back to talkin’ and dodgin’ questions.” - walker - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:46 pm: At least we get a week’s warning on one fake big number in his budget presentation. - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 6:59 pm: The shaker and the shaken - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 7:04 pm: Hey Christine, what did the five fingers say to the face? - Das Man - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 7:14 pm: The truth is out there (hint: check out Planet Nine) - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 7:42 pm: No kiddin’ huh? Never heard that but sounds like a great deal. Five dollar footlongs at Subway? Five dollars? Nice! - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 7:57 pm: Masonic truth at any cost hand signal - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:22 pm: Puppet master pulls the strings on his new marionette - Huh? - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:24 pm: I have only lied this many times in the last hour. - X-prof - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:30 pm: Radogno mutters to herself: O boy, Bruce. The coverage of this train wreck of a presser won’t be pretty. I hope you’re ready for something like this: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rauner-cullerton-pensions-met-0122-20160122-story.html - Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:32 pm: “Whoa, no questions on the numbers. I’m the salesman, not the analyst.” - Rabid - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:45 pm: Oops 8:22 A show of hands for the turnaround ?christine? - Blue dog dem - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 8:56 pm: Typical hypocrite. Let’s save a billion here, and turn around and spend a billion more on MBE and WBE contracts than we have to. All that to try and buy off a few legislators. Heck, if I didn’t know better, I would think the RAUN Man was MJM in drag! - Wronger Rauner - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 9:57 pm: Whoa Radogno . . . Heel! Good girl. - Pip - Thursday, Jan 21, 16 @ 11:27 pm: “This is a true Raunerbot. See the acquiescence in its eyes. Come. Join us. We are the enlightened.” - Rabid - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 5:50 am: Hello friend. (looking for someone to wave back) - Rabid - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 5:53 am: Waving goodbye to the negotiation table - Rabid - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 5:56 am: Still trying to catch those imaginary savings - Rabid - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 6:03 am: Push it push it real good - Huh? - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 6:58 am: 1,4% attempt at the Vulcan salute “Hang in there” - phocion - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 8:20 am: “Don’t live long. I’ll prosper.” - Henry - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 8:35 am: Just 5 more years until we pass a budget. What? Of course I plan on running for a second term. - Five - Friday, Jan 22, 16 @ 8:38 am: How many press conferences about irrational policy plans are we holding before next Wednesday? Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.