38 Comments - Ole' Nelson - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:38 am: Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. - Gruntled University Employee - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:42 am: ==“incompetent babble.”== Yep, pretty much sums it up. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:43 am: ===Democrat majority=== That IPI… never with the dog whistles, always unbiased. - JPC - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:45 am: Imagine if the Tribune could get it together and report on Rauner’s actual budget. - Chicago Cynic - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:46 am: That pivot yesterday from Rauner is very noteworthy. It’s the DEMS who “WANT CHAOS.” As Rauner enter the “I know you are but what am I” part of his re-election campaign. - Langhorne - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:47 am: You lost me at IPI. Always - Anon - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:49 am: Rauner and his little world of Yes men around hI’m probably do think that things are going great. He honestly thinks that this recent mess is the solution. He is a wack job with money and nobody around him will tell him that. He thinks protestors are wrong and he is right. - Herman Wouk - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:49 am: Oh that Governor Queeg….first it was the Mess Boys, now it’s the Deck Crew. - wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:50 am: Brown, it’s not incompetent babble. Rauner continues to play you guys like a drum in the public square and your response is non-existent, Now Rauner is blaming you for his own misanthropic actions and objectives. And you’re letting him get away with it. So who’s incompetent? Or lazy? - don the legend - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:50 am: —“incompetent babble.”— “I’ll have you know that what I said was clearly competent babble” FakeGovernorRauner - JS Mill - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:54 am: =Rauner said the Democrat majority is purposefully not sending an agreed-upon and balanced budget because they’re trying to damage him politically.= Umm, no. Bruce, you and your Bro-quarium may want to give the Illinois Constitutions a thorough re-read. Have a dictionary handy if need be. The governor is supposed to send a balanced budget TO the ILGA. Not the other way around (of course they shouldn’t make a balanced budget unbalanced either). The rest is pure career politician style BS. - Ubecha - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:54 am: Just for some revisionist history, who said….”Crisis creates opportunity. Crisis creates leverage to change…and we’ve got to use that leverage of the crisis to force structural change.” Now crisis=chaos or mayhem. The man simply does not want a solution to this mess he’s created. - Rich Miller - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:56 am: ===Not the other way around=== Um, you need to re-read the document. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:56 am: This is how this will roll. IPI News service reports… Rauner Radio and Rauner editorial radio chimes in… Proft newspapers “report”, then will “editorialize”… Tribune Editorial Board gives favorable headline… Radio ads begin… Television ads follow… Democrats silently watch all this happen. Vertical integration of… ===”My chief of staff is meeting with the chiefs of staff of all the legislative leaders right now, trying to move this forward to get a balanced budget,” Rauner said. “We are working seven days a week. We will never give up, but the issue is we’ve got to change the system=== … complete. Rauner wins the day(s) - AC - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:57 am: ==they’re trying to damage him politically== Poor Rauner. If only he didn’t have other branches of government to contend with. - Huh? - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:58 am: “I want chaos. I want mayhem,” Rauner said. “I’m happy to hurt whoever I need to hurt to get my way and personal agenda that has nothing to do with the budget.” Fixed it for you. - Someone you should know - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 11:59 am: Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age. - thunderspirit - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:00 pm: == “They want chaos. They want mayhem,” Rauner said. Brown dismissed Rauner’s comments as “incompetent babble.” == These statements are not necessarily mutually exclusive. - Flynn's Mom - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:11 pm: “incompetent babble” He took the words right out of my mouth! - 37B - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:18 pm: Archie: You are a vulgarian, aren’t you? Otto: You’re the vulgarian, you f***.” - Harry - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:25 pm: The Governor accusing the General Assembly of not sending a balanced budget is pretty funny, actually. - Annonin' - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:28 pm: Actually DopeyDuct said his COS “demanded” a meetin’ which came as a surprise to the attendees. As did Dopey’s decision to announce the meetin’. Some say meetin’ included lots gibberish and talk of bills long dead. - Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:28 pm: The IPI should go to work for the Trump administration. - AC - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:36 pm: ==“They want chaos. They want mayhem,” Rauner said== Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode. - Mongo - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:39 pm: “Someone” beat me to it. If Rauner is Mel Brooks, who is Harvey Korman, and who is Cleavon Little? - Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:43 pm: Constitution of the State of Illinois ARTICLE VIII FINANCE SECTION 2. STATE FINANCE The Governor shall prepare and submit to the General Assembly, at a time prescribed by law, a State budget for the ensuing fiscal year. The budget shall set forth the estimated balance of funds available for appropriation at the beginning of the fiscal year, the estimated receipts, and a plan for expenditures and obligations during the fiscal year of every department, authority, public corporation and quasi-public corporation of the State, every State college and university, and every other public agency created by the State, but not of units of local government or school districts. The budget shall also set forth the indebtedness and contingent liabilities of the State and such other information as may be required by law. Proposed expenditures shall not exceed funds estimated to be available for the fiscal year as shown in the budget. - don the legend - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:44 pm: I think the democrats and clear thinking republicans need to ask a mental health professional how one goes about effectively dealing with someone like Rauner and his condition. No snark. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:45 pm: ===who is Harvey Korman, and who is Cleavon Little?=== Richard Goldberg would be Hedley LaMarr and Art Turner or Donne Trotter can play Sheriff Bart. Add Cullerton as the Waco Kid and Madigan as Mongo and it practically writes itself. - WhoKnew - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 12:59 pm: -OW- What do you think the “Dad’s Home State” episode #77, titled “incompetent babble” would go like? Inquiring minds want to know!/s - phocion - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:01 pm: Steve Brown is a communications professional, or so I thought. It’s “incoherent babble” - NOT “incompetent babble.” - AC - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:03 pm: ==democrats and clear thinking republicans need to ask a mental health professional how one goes about effectively dealing with someone like Rauner and his condition== Your comment left me feeling a bit of deja vu: http://www.sj-r.com/x716054539/Blagojevich-not-crazy-experts-say - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:09 pm: ===What do you think the “Dad’s Home State” episode #77, titled “incompetent babble”=== I don’t think you’d need to wait so deep in season 3… (Wash to memory visuals) HBO - “Dad’s Home State” - Season 3, Episode 34 Bruce practices talking in circles, gets so caught up in practicing incompetent babble, gets light headed and faints. Diana sees Bruce faint as his desk, runs to get a glass of water, returning back to Bruce and then drinking the water herself until Bruce wakes. Diana’s State Employee tells fellow employee Incompetent Babble is really a tribute band that does Fleetwood Mac covers. Lance tweets pictures of the tribute band Incompetent Babble to Rep. Lang, “ck” releases a press release of Rauner tour stops in conjunction with “Incompetent Babble” dive bar dates, Goldberg writes a letter to all Chiefs of Staffs inviting them to a meeting during “Incompetent Babble” bar gig, “cash bar” noted. Comedy, 68 minutes. - Ed Higher - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:17 pm: Anonymous: Come on. You act as if Rauner swore an oath to uphold the constitution… Also funny that the constitution mentions state colleges and universities. But nothing a little white-out can’t fix. - reelpro - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:23 pm: “If Rauner is Mel Brooks, who is Harvey Korman, and who is Cleavon Little?” Mongo may have hit the nail square on the head. In Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks played Governor Le Pétomane. Le Pétomane was the stage name of a French flatulist. Look it up on Wiki, hilarious. - Peoria Citizen - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 1:33 pm: Took about a week of reading IPI to realize they’re biased. Hell of a poker game going on. So much smoke and mirrors. - Stumpy's bunker - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 2:06 pm: Then that’s it: Governor LePetomane. Surrounded by frat-boy apprentice flatulants. - WhoKnew - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 2:52 pm: -OW- Thanks, you had me laughing at ” gets light headed and faints”. To bad it’s an HBO Series. I would think the “Incompetent Babble” t-shirt commercials would have them selling like hotcakes!/s - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 8, 17 @ 2:56 pm: ===I would think the “Incompetent Babble” t-shirt commercials would have them selling like hotcakes!=== HBO Marketing is really supportive. I’ll pass on your thoughts, if they decide it’s a go, I’ll send you one. I was thinking a blank concert style t-shirt with “Metallica” font, in garbage can van green… Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.