“We need a little budget”
Thursday, Dec 8, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* We’re going to try something new this holiday season. Rather than post them in comments, our ever-valuable commenter VanillaMan will be sending me Christmas songs to post on the front page. If you’re unfamiliar with the tune this is built on (”We Need a Little Christmas”), click here…
Haul out those wish lists
Count up taxes before my spirit falls again
Fill up the pensions
I may be rushing things, but make requests again now
For we need a little budget
Right this very minute
Compromise among parties
Something for everyone in it!
Yes, we need a little budget
Right this very minute
The Speaker may be in a fury
But Governor, constitutionally, it’s your DUTY!
So climb down from ideology
Put on the brightest smiles that citizens have ever seen
Slice up appropriations
It’s time we stopped with - vetoing everything down!
For we’ve grown a little leaner
Grown a little colder
Grown a little sadder
Grown a little older
And we need a little budget
Sitting on our printers
We need a little budget now
Haul out that backlog!
Tell Mendoza we’re gonna live each living day
Fill up all the funds
Especially the one you from which you expect to get pay
But we need a little budget
Right this very minute
We know you can do it
Just hold your breath – get to it!
And we need a little budget
Right this very minute
It’s been two years, for crying-out-loud
Time to step up and be proud!
So climb down from deadlock
Stop listening to all those hacks on talk radio
Slice up the differences
It’s time you did the job you were sent to do now!
For we need a little budget
Right this very minute
If the Cubs can do it
You’re out of excuses – screw it!
And we need a little budget
Right this very minute
We need a little budget now
We need a little budget now
We need a little budget now!
- wordslinger - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:02 pm:
Great idea!
- RNUG - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:09 pm:
Always love Vanillaman’s twist on things.
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:17 pm:
Thank you!
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:18 pm:
VMan is a talented guy. Thanks for this.
- Kevin Highland - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:28 pm:
Marvelous as always, if only a local band/choir would record some of this I think it could be released under CapitolFax Records!!!!
- A guy - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:31 pm:
Hopefully not for a long while, but VM needs to donate his head to science.
- Amalia - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:37 pm:
oh, VM is so not vanilla! this is completely awesome. peppermint schnapps for you, Vanilla Man!
- Earnest - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:38 pm:
God bless you VanillaMan, and God bless Illinois!!!!!!!!!!
- illini - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:47 pm:
I just wish that I had 10% of the talent, imagination and creativity of VanillaMan.
Great work - very timely and appropriate.
- Crispy - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 4:50 pm:
Genius! A big boost to Christmas cheer. Thank you! Maybe it’ll inspire a ” Christmas Carol”-style “turnaround.” …
- G'Kar - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 5:00 pm:
Well done!
- A guy - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 5:01 pm:
Auntie Mame digs VM.
- Illinoised - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 5:05 pm:
The VMan rocks!
- Amalia - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 5:09 pm:
thinking of Auntie Mame makes me miss Dawn Clark Netsch, cigarette holder and all. and Bill Luking too.
- FormerParatrooper - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 6:00 pm:
We have hoped, prayed, voiced and voted, and nothing has been accomplished. Maybe V-Man can get the point across this way. If not, at least we have music to watch the burning down of the State.
- Anon221 - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 6:57 pm:
Anyone up for caroling at the Mansion;)
Thanks VMan. Your music makes the holidays brighter !
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 7:09 pm:
- VanillaMan - is the gold standard. This is restaurant-quality, then again when aren’t these songs restaurant-quality.
Thanks to - VanillaMan - and to Rich. This is really special. Can’t wait for more.
- walker - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 7:40 pm:
VM multidimensional heartist.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Dec 8, 16 @ 9:02 pm:
But we live in an alternative reality now. Rauner doesn’t care and neither do his supporters.
- Deft Wing - Friday, Dec 9, 16 @ 6:31 am:
Oh, it’s special alright.
- Flynn's mom - Friday, Dec 9, 16 @ 8:57 am:
That’s awesome!!