Despite repeated entreaties to help “lighten the mood” in Thursday’s budget summit, Speaker Madigan and an unidentified staffer failed in attempts to draw GOP leaders into their reenactment of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album cover.
Rauner: All right! Who did it? Who did it? Those House Members going to sit in their Chamber sweating at those desks until someone confesses! It’s an insult to the honor of my administration! The symbol of my agenda, my Carhartt, has been thrown out a window and I’m going to find out who did it if it takes all night!”
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
Wile E Coyote hatching his latest scheme to catch The Road Runner.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6)
Silly Gov doesn’t even have a lock on his door. Mine’s like a bank vault.
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
Thank you, OW, for the Mister Roberts quote–so appropriate. Only on Capitol fax comments can you have homages to Mister Roberts, Game of Thrones and Lewis Carroll!
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:24 pm:
“Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.”
According to Rich Miller, editor of the Capitol Fax Illinois political newsletter, wrote “the pile of political corpses outside Madigan’s Statehouse door of those who tried to beat him one way or another is a mile high and a mile wide.”
- Rod sez i'm Pork - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 8:15 pm:
- Boone's is Back - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:21 pm:
“I must break you”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:22 pm:
“Stay here. I won’t be long.”
- BIG R. Ph. - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
2 Paces back and to the left!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
“It closed… Speaker… Speaker!… Speaker!!! Stop Speaker, the glass door is closed!”
- burbanite - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:25 pm:
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” CC a.k.a. MJM
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:26 pm:
“Governor, it is I, Speaker Madigan, and I just threw your stinkin’ Carhartt Coat out the window! Now what’s all this about no proposed budget?”
- unspun - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:28 pm:
“Mapes did good work on the front doors; let’s make this one a turnstile”.
- Linus - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:29 pm:
Despite repeated entreaties to help “lighten the mood” in Thursday’s budget summit, Speaker Madigan and an unidentified staffer failed in attempts to draw GOP leaders into their reenactment of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” album cover.
- Beaner - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:30 pm:
Speaker Madigan arrives at Governor Rauner’s Office to get the details of Rauner’s $5 billion tax hike.
- Earnest - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:31 pm:
Things can turn on a dime.
- Bogey Golfer - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:31 pm:
Linus - leader in the clubhouse.
- Sillies - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:32 pm:
And you’ve got Candy Crush loaded on my device, yes?
- Me too - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
“You like apples? Applesauce *****”
h/t Good Will Hunting Season
- Saluki - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWOVfY-rxU
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
“Stop reaching for the flag, we can’t take that in with us”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
(Over a loud speaker thoughout the Capitol)
Rauner: All right! Who did it? Who did it? Those House Members going to sit in their Chamber sweating at those desks until someone confesses! It’s an insult to the honor of my administration! The symbol of my agenda, my Carhartt, has been thrown out a window and I’m going to find out who did it if it takes all night!”
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:33 pm:
Wile E Coyote hatching his latest scheme to catch The Road Runner.
=Meep = Meep!=
- Maguffin - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:34 pm:
Deja vu all over again…
- Saluki - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:36 pm:
Inside the Leaders meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs-OvfG8tE
- Wensicia - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:38 pm:
“Watch the glass frost up as I pass through the doors.”
- DuPage - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:38 pm:
Rauner: Surrender at once!
Madigan: No! I have not began to fight!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:39 pm:
“Keep an eye out for Goudie”
- Biker - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:40 pm:
Hold the Door!
- A guy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:41 pm:
It’s not the size of the office, or even really the size of the man….
- cdog - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
oh when the saints
go marching in …
not.
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:51 pm:
Singing
You know it’s true
I may have lost a step or two
Don’t be so blue
I’ll never leave you
- Keyrock - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:56 pm:
Walk this way . . . .
- Bigtwich - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6)
- Casual observer - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 2:59 pm:
“Upper decker”. Sophomoric, I know, but I’m still laughing.
- illini - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:15 pm:
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
Never thought I would find a Lewis Carrol quote appropriate - well done!
- Formerly Known As... - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
Can someone please tell me what is in my budget?
- A guy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:19 pm:
Silly Gov doesn’t even have a lock on his door. Mine’s like a bank vault.
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
Thank you, OW, for the Mister Roberts quote–so appropriate. Only on Capitol fax comments can you have homages to Mister Roberts, Game of Thrones and Lewis Carroll!
- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:24 pm:
“Bust a deal, face the wheel.”
- @MisterJayEm - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.”
– MrJM
- Flynn's mom - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:25 pm:
If he doesn’t have any apples I’m out of here.
- A guy - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
While I’ve never lived here, I collected a lot of rent on this property.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
“Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.”
- Northsider - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
Oswego Willy’s first “Mister Roberts” reference wins the day.
- Casual observer - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
MJM: “Do I let him surrender with dignity or make him sweat? HAHA, I kill myself sometimes. When I’m done he’ll be on his knees kissing my ring.”
- AlfondoGonz - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:40 pm:
“Shabby Road”
- Name Withheld - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
MrJM for the win! And in Italian no less!
- Name Withheld - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
“Hmm - glass houses. And here I am with a brick.”
- Big T - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
Lord of the Dance
Michael Madigan
- a girl - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:47 pm:
The Imperial March. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
- crazybleedingheart - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
“I also brought Lisa’s measuring tape to this meeting.”
- Huh? - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
“Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.”
Oh h€ll not again.
Something about abandoning all hope, entering here in
- the Cardinal - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 4:15 pm:
“Dang it, left my coffee in here, barely had a sip hope they didn’t toss it out”
- Rabid - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 6:06 pm:
Stand back I’ll kick it open
- @MisterJayEm - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 6:24 pm:
“Oh h€ll not again.”
With all my heart, I hope your wordplay was intentional.
– MrJM
- Rabid - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 6:33 pm:
Entering Goldberg’s glass bowl office
- Rabid - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 7:04 pm:
I’ve got his grand bargain, he makes everyone pay a grand
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 7:17 pm:
According to Rich Miller, editor of the Capitol Fax Illinois political newsletter, wrote “the pile of political corpses outside Madigan’s Statehouse door of those who tried to beat him one way or another is a mile high and a mile wide.”
- Rod sez i'm Pork - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 8:15 pm:
Have fun stormin’ da castle.
- mokenavince - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 10:26 pm:
Hopeless!
- Rabid - Thursday, May 26, 16 @ 10:38 pm:
A sole meets a heel
- South Illinoisian - Friday, May 27, 16 @ 12:24 am:
Do I have to do this again?
- Rabid - Friday, May 27, 16 @ 7:18 am:
Hopscotching to tiddlywinks
- Huh? - Friday, May 27, 16 @ 7:25 am:
“With all my heart, I hope your wordplay was intentional.”
Purely first reaction until I looked it up on the internet. Then it was funny.