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Thursday, Aug 24, 2017 - Posted by Rich Miller

* Your one-word description of the past 37 days of the Rauner administration since the first big round of staff firings? One “real” word only, please.

155 Comments

- Roadiepig - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
FAIL

- 47th Ward - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
Turmoil.

- JmJ - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
TRUMPIAN

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:05 pm:
Operatic

- Ipso Facto - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:05 pm:
comedistrategery

- Union proud - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:05 pm:
Candor

- Tony - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:06 pm:
Scaramucci

- Justan Observer - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:06 pm:
Shakespearean

- Union proud - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:06 pm:
Terrorism

- Publius - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
TOAST

- Union proud - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
Cartoonish

- Sam - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
#Winning

- Flynn's mom - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
debacle

- dishpan - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
calamity

- Get it Solved - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:07 pm:
Catastrophe

- GA Watcher - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Madigan

- New Slang - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Karma

- Honeybear - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Kabuki

- J IL - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Capitulatin’

- Truth Squad - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:08 pm:
Amateur

- Seats - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:09 pm:
comeuppance

- Gruntled University Employee - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:09 pm:
Disaster

- Northsider - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Woebegone.

- Undiscovered country - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
feckless

- Slats G - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Tif

- Johnnyo - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Covfefe

- union independent - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
BROKEN

- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Shaken

- Ambassador Abe - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Radical

- Casual observer - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Diana

- Gruntled University Employee - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:11 pm:
Squeezy

- Ubecha - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:11 pm:
Mindbogglin’

- I wonder... - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
Laughingstock

- north shore barbie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:12 pm:
mishegas

- VanillaMan - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
Unproffesional

- Dance Band on the Titanic - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
Outrageous

- 360 Degree TurnAround - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
Paranoia

- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:13 pm:
ILLogical

- JoanP - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:14 pm:
Baffling.

- Aldyth - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:14 pm:
Sad

- We'll See - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
Entertaining

- Chris Walken - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
Cowbell

- Mr. K. - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:15 pm:
Yuuuuge.

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:16 pm:
Bonkers

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:16 pm:
Radical

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:16 pm:
Gaffes

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:17 pm:
Pineapple

- Ghost - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:17 pm:
cromulent

- Ted Slowik - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:17 pm:
Inept

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:17 pm:
Vindication

- amalia - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:17 pm:
Confusion

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
Exposed

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
“Brand”

- George - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
Tragicomedy

- don the legend - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:18 pm:
Conflagration

- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:19 pm:
Failin’

- Red Rider - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
Twit

- Hyperbolic Chamber - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
Self-immolation (conflagration is close 2nd)

- Tony - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:20 pm:
Wrong

- G'Kar - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:21 pm:
Wagnerian

- Saluki - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:21 pm:
avoidable

- Jocko - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:22 pm:
eye-opening

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:22 pm:
Oof!

- Northside City Dweller - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:22 pm:
Predictable

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:23 pm:
Oof

- ??? - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:24 pm:
Boondoggle

- 47th Ward - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:24 pm:
Broken.

- iggy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:25 pm:
SAD!

- phocion - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:26 pm:
Detour

- stateandlake - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:26 pm:
Plummeting

- Dome Gnome - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:26 pm:
Wasteful

- Huh? - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:27 pm:
Heeheehee

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:29 pm:
dianalytics

- Moby - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:29 pm:
Clumsy

- @MisterJayEm - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:30 pm:
Pooched.

– MrJM

- 47th Ward - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:30 pm:
Bruuuuuuuuce.

- The Old Professor - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
Blago-worthy

- Loop Lady - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
Bizarre…

- Nick Name - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
Speechless

- jimk849 - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
extreme

- Archiesmom - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:31 pm:
Mistake

- gadfly - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:32 pm:
schadenfreude

- Stuff Happens - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:33 pm:
Comical

- XDNR - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:34 pm:
Ineptpolicyinstitute

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
Implosion

- HoneyBadger - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
Nixumpian

- HoneyBadger - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
Pathetic

- Gooner - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:35 pm:
Lost

- Alternative Logic - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:36 pm:
Weltschmerz

- JC is just saying... - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:36 pm:
Same word as I’ve been using the last year and a half…FAILURE.

- Joe M - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:36 pm:
Discombobulated

- doofusguy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:37 pm:
Befuddled

- Someone you should know - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:38 pm:
Unhealthy

- lake county democrat - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:38 pm:
Embarrassing.

- State Engineer - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
Chaos

Incompetent

Disaster

All Apply

- votequimby - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
Appallin’

- Southside Markie - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
DysFUNctional

- Ahoy! - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
mistake

- Tommydanger - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:40 pm:
Inept

- Ipso Facto - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:41 pm:
Opa

- Hit Em With The Hein - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:42 pm:
Strategery

- blue dog dem - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:42 pm:
Swansong.

- Earnest - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:43 pm:
Spousal

- blue dog dem - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:44 pm:
Nonissue.

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:46 pm:
PLOP

- walker - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:47 pm:
Ketchup

- Highland Il - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:48 pm:
unprepared

- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:48 pm:
Backlash

- Nearly Normal - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:49 pm:
Godawful

- AC - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:51 pm:
Presidential

- anonlurker - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:52 pm:
maelstrom

- Lt Guv - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:54 pm:
Deserved

- Nobody Sent - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:55 pm:
Unbusinessmanlike

- Wensicia - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:55 pm:
Decomposing

- northsider (the original) - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:55 pm:
Inevitable

- Keyrock - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:56 pm:
Faceplant.

- Mr. Smith - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:57 pm:
malvolio

- Boone's is Back - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 3:59 pm:
Best.

- ryan - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:04 pm:
D’oh

- IllinoisBoi - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:05 pm:
Irrecoverable.

- GOP Extremist - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:06 pm:
Maladroit

- Schoolwise - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:06 pm:
Beginning

- JoanP - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:08 pm:
Childish

- Cable Line Beer Gardener - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:10 pm:
Horribilis

- Dragonwolf - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:14 pm:
Deepyogurt

- Wilson - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:19 pm:
ADRIFT

- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:20 pm:
Perplexed

- Bootleg Carhartt Designer - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:21 pm:
Schadenfreudian

- Lt Guv - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:29 pm:
Perfidy

- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:41 pm:
shilly-shally

- peon - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:50 pm:
Revealing

- Anonymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:58 pm:
Rascally
Rauneresque

- Hawkeye - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:58 pm:
If FUBAR is a “real word” that’s the one I’ve been using.

- 47th Ward - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 4:59 pm:
Wobbly

- Ben S. - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 5:15 pm:
Omnishambles

- Rabid - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 5:19 pm:
temporize

- Winnin' - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 5:19 pm:
Unbidnesslike.

- JS Mill - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 5:21 pm:
Karma

- Yellow Dog Democrat - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 5:27 pm:
Ouroboros.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

- Anon - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 6:19 pm:
Implosion

- Ymous - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 6:22 pm:
Bigly

- cc - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 6:48 pm:
Loathsome

- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 7:26 pm:
Embarranoia

- KEM - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 7:43 pm:
Shooketh

- XDNR - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 7:43 pm:
Rauneriteness

- Chicago Cynic - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 7:54 pm:
Surprised nobody’s used it yet:

Fiasco

- Southsider - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 8:07 pm:
Trumpesque

- XDNR - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 8:31 pm:
IPIphobia

- XDNR - Thursday, Aug 24, 17 @ 8:46 pm:
Cluster****

- Huh? - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 4:49 am:
SNAFU

- MrGrassroots - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 6:17 am:
obtuse

- Desert Dweller - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 7:09 am:
Sad

- Da Big Bad Wolf - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 10:20 am:
Pita-ful

- Triple fat - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 1:01 pm:
Consternating

- Triple fat - Friday, Aug 25, 17 @ 1:11 pm:
Fomentation

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