Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* As noted in our live coverage post, the leaders discussed the state’s horrific fiscal projections today…
Pres. Cullerton reported that several proposals from their task force meeting on the budget in the GOMBnuding report. pic.twitter.com/zqqlnWTnZ0 — Blueroomstream (@Blueroomstream) November 16, 2016
Pres. Cullerton reported that several proposals from their task force meeting on the budget in the GOMBnuding report. pic.twitter.com/zqqlnWTnZ0
— Blueroomstream (@Blueroomstream) November 16, 2016
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:32 am:
“Do I look happy about it?”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:33 am:
“I’m not zoning, I’m just defeated at the moment… “
“Shhh… Let Christine talk… It’s fascinating… “
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:34 am:
President Cullerton looks on as Gov. Rauner takes another selfie with a group the governor refuses to pay what’s owed them…
- Cubs in '16 - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:35 am:
Pres Cullerton watches as the hat being passed around makes its way ever closer.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:35 am:
“I hope Evelyn is ok… that fall look less staged, I may be worried… “
- Groucho - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:36 am:
Did someone page Morton Downey Jr?
- Whatever - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
“Senator, is your pallor caused by the shocking fiscal situation or by standing in the Speaker’s shadow?”
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
This is worse than a colonoscopy.
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
All he asked me for was a “Harumph.”
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:38 am:
The look you get when you realize that everyone working for the state of Illinois could work for free and we would still have a $2.5 billion deficit.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:38 am:
President Cullerton looks on as Gov. Rauner trots out a new costume, “High School Basketball Fan”
- RNUG - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:39 am:
“The voters aren’t going to like the tax increase that is coming …”
- illinoised - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:40 am:
“In hindsight, maybe we procrastinated a bit on this.”
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:41 am:
“Moe, can I have another Duff?!”
“Homer, you got cut off an hour ago!”
- yeah - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:42 am:
“I just realized, deep down in my gut, the Governor has interest neither in a Budget nor Governing. Just senseless Turnaround barnyard litter.”
- Rocky Rosi - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:47 am:
The medical stuff is so much strong.
- MSIX - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:48 am:
“Bring me a bucket.”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:50 am:
Look out — he’s gonna hurl!
- walker - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:50 am:
Still holding out for non-budget items?
- A guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:53 am:
….cough….again, cough…
- Gruntled University Employee - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:54 am:
Doh!
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:54 am:
Senate President Cullerton learns the governor will be sitting next to him for the 11-hour flight to Rome
- AlfondoGonz - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:56 am:
“Barney Fife demonstrates incompetence in his second career.”
- pool boy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:56 am:
This is my happy face.
- Tough Guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:58 am:
“Whadda ya mean the governor won’t propose a budget?”
- Stones - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:59 am:
Looks like someone just discovered a t**d in the punchbowl.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:02 am:
Oh God, here we go again.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:03 am:
The Cap Fax needed a caption contest, so Rich Miller paid me $20 to make this face.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:05 am:
And you think the weight of the world is heavy, just try carrying Illinois’s budget deficit.
- Lucky Pierre - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:07 am:
Unfunded pension just jumped 20 Billion dollars.
Can someone get my pension bill out? Nah never mind
- Anon - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:07 am:
“How many more days of this guy?”
- justacitizen - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:13 am:
I’m maintaining a stiff lower lip through all of this adversity.
- Jocko - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:21 am:
That can’t be right! The debt is HOW much?
- Amalia - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:21 am:
Cullerton’s immersion of Wallace Shawn in Clueless
Impression…..
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:22 am:
“Here’s my best Homer Simpson face”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:24 am:
“Next time on ‘Check, Please’: Sen. Pres. John Cullerton reviews the new liver-and-onions horseshoe at the Rathskellar.”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:28 am:
“How was I supposed to know my job was to bring the apples this morning?”
- Earnest - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:29 am:
The situation in Sprngfield has devolved so badly that Cullerton’s jaw is beginning to look like a caveman’s.
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:30 am:
Speaker Madigan and the abyss he controls.
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:31 am:
“Walter Matthau’s long lost cousin reemerges after lengthy coma.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:35 am:
“Lemme see your ‘Rauner’ face… Now let me see your ‘real Rauner’ face… work on it!”
- Slugger O'Toole - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:35 am:
“Inconceivable”
- Bogey Golfer - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:36 am:
Anyone got a roll of Tums?
- SAP - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:38 am:
Here is my impression of a slack-jawed Tronclodite.
- A guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:50 am:
Undercooked sushi…again!
- deacon geek - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:12 pm:
Still no budget? Inconceivable!
- Blue dog dem - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:15 pm:
…”at least this sanctuary city thing will bail Chicago out!”
- Casual observer - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:50 pm:
I picked the wrong day to give up drinking.
- Underfrog - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:59 pm:
duh, gee Tennessee, we’d better get back to the zoo before Stanley misses us
- d.p.gumby - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:03 pm:
“I’m not Happy…perhaps more like Grumpy”
- Rabid - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:25 pm:
No great lake beer for me just mustard
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:29 pm:
What…no donuts?
- OneMan - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 2:21 pm:
As he spoke he saw Governor Rauner standing behind the media holding a giant check for 150 million dollars and a You Mess With The Bull You Get The Horns hat
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
Maybe if I do my Alley Oop impression it will cheer everyone up.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
Big hitter, the Lama.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
This is what “Being the only adult in the room” looks like.
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- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:32 am:
“Do I look happy about it?”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:33 am:
“I’m not zoning, I’m just defeated at the moment… “
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:33 am:
“Shhh… Let Christine talk… It’s fascinating… “
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:34 am:
President Cullerton looks on as Gov. Rauner takes another selfie with a group the governor refuses to pay what’s owed them…
- Cubs in '16 - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:35 am:
Pres Cullerton watches as the hat being passed around makes its way ever closer.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:35 am:
“I hope Evelyn is ok… that fall look less staged, I may be worried… “
- Groucho - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:36 am:
Did someone page Morton Downey Jr?
- Whatever - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
“Senator, is your pallor caused by the shocking fiscal situation or by standing in the Speaker’s shadow?”
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
This is worse than a colonoscopy.
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:37 am:
All he asked me for was a “Harumph.”
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:38 am:
The look you get when you realize that everyone working for the state of Illinois could work for free and we would still have a $2.5 billion deficit.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:38 am:
President Cullerton looks on as Gov. Rauner trots out a new costume, “High School Basketball Fan”
- RNUG - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:39 am:
“The voters aren’t going to like the tax increase that is coming …”
- illinoised - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:40 am:
“In hindsight, maybe we procrastinated a bit on this.”
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:41 am:
“Moe, can I have another Duff?!”
“Homer, you got cut off an hour ago!”
- yeah - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:42 am:
“I just realized, deep down in my gut, the Governor has interest neither in a Budget nor Governing. Just senseless Turnaround barnyard litter.”
- Rocky Rosi - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:47 am:
The medical stuff is so much strong.
- MSIX - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:48 am:
“Bring me a bucket.”
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:50 am:
Look out — he’s gonna hurl!
- walker - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:50 am:
Still holding out for non-budget items?
- A guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:53 am:
….cough….again, cough…
- Gruntled University Employee - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:54 am:
Doh!
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:54 am:
Senate President Cullerton learns the governor will be sitting next to him for the 11-hour flight to Rome
- AlfondoGonz - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:56 am:
“Barney Fife demonstrates incompetence in his second career.”
- pool boy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:56 am:
This is my happy face.
- Tough Guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:58 am:
“Whadda ya mean the governor won’t propose a budget?”
- Stones - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 10:59 am:
Looks like someone just discovered a t**d in the punchbowl.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:02 am:
Oh God, here we go again.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:03 am:
The Cap Fax needed a caption contest, so Rich Miller paid me $20 to make this face.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:05 am:
And you think the weight of the world is heavy, just try carrying Illinois’s budget deficit.
- Lucky Pierre - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:07 am:
Unfunded pension just jumped 20 Billion dollars.
Can someone get my pension bill out? Nah never mind
- Anon - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:07 am:
“How many more days of this guy?”
- justacitizen - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:13 am:
I’m maintaining a stiff lower lip through all of this adversity.
- Jocko - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:21 am:
That can’t be right! The debt is HOW much?
- Amalia - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:21 am:
Cullerton’s immersion of Wallace Shawn in Clueless
- Amalia - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:21 am:
Impression…..
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:22 am:
“Here’s my best Homer Simpson face”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:24 am:
“Next time on ‘Check, Please’: Sen. Pres. John Cullerton reviews the new liver-and-onions horseshoe at the Rathskellar.”
- Dance Band on the Titanic - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:28 am:
“How was I supposed to know my job was to bring the apples this morning?”
- Earnest - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:29 am:
The situation in Sprngfield has devolved so badly that Cullerton’s jaw is beginning to look like a caveman’s.
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:30 am:
Speaker Madigan and the abyss he controls.
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:31 am:
“Walter Matthau’s long lost cousin reemerges after lengthy coma.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:35 am:
“Lemme see your ‘Rauner’ face… Now let me see your ‘real Rauner’ face… work on it!”
- Slugger O'Toole - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:35 am:
“Inconceivable”
- Bogey Golfer - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:36 am:
Anyone got a roll of Tums?
- SAP - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:38 am:
Here is my impression of a slack-jawed Tronclodite.
- A guy - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 11:50 am:
Undercooked sushi…again!
- deacon geek - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:12 pm:
Still no budget? Inconceivable!
- Blue dog dem - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:15 pm:
…”at least this sanctuary city thing will bail Chicago out!”
- Casual observer - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:50 pm:
I picked the wrong day to give up drinking.
- Underfrog - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 12:59 pm:
duh, gee Tennessee, we’d better get back to the zoo before Stanley misses us
- d.p.gumby - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:03 pm:
“I’m not Happy…perhaps more like Grumpy”
- Rabid - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:25 pm:
No great lake beer for me just mustard
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 1:29 pm:
What…no donuts?
- OneMan - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 2:21 pm:
As he spoke he saw Governor Rauner standing behind the media holding a giant check for 150 million dollars and a You Mess With The Bull You Get The Horns hat
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 2:23 pm:
Maybe if I do my Alley Oop impression it will cheer everyone up.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
Big hitter, the Lama.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Nov 16, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
This is what “Being the only adult in the room” looks like.