JB Pritzger announces plans to tax tumbleweeds in Illinois. “These tumbleweeds have been tumbling down Illinois Roads without paying gas taxes to maintain the pavement they’re drifting along.”
“Oh JB, can we get on the bus and go, it’s just an old surrey”
“Old surrey? That’s not what I see..
(Middle C… )
All the world’ll fly in a flurry
When I see Illinois in the surrey,
When I see Illinois in the surrey with Honest Abe on top
When we hit that road, hell fer leather,
Cats and dogs’ll dance in the heather,
Birds and frogs’ll sing all together and the toads will hop
The wind’ll whistle as we rattle along,
The cows’ll moo in the clover,
The river will ripple out a whispered song,
And whisper it over and over:
Don’t you wisht to campaign forever?
Don’t you wisht to campaign forever?
Don’t you wisht to campaign and ud never stop
In that shiny, little surrey with Honest Abe on the top
I can see the Ads gettin’ blurry,
When we ride back home in the surrey,
Ridin’ slowly home in the surrey with Honest Abe on top
I can feel the day gettin’ older,
Feel Abe’s head restin’ near my shoulder,
Noddin’, droopin’ close to my shoulder, till it falls kerplop
The sun is swimmin’ on the rim of a hill;
The moon is takin’ a header,
And jist as I’m thinkin’ all the earth is still,
A lark’ll wake up in the medder.
Hush, you bird, Honest Abe’s a-sleepin’
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin’
Whoa! you team, and jist keep a-creepin’ at a slow clip clop.
Don’t you hurry with the surrey with Abe sleepin’ on the top”
- wordslinger - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:49 pm:
I hear black and giant kitschy roadside attractions are slimming.
- Father Ted - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:51 pm:
“JB Pritzker compares his campaign bus with the one that the Kennedy campaign was able to afford.”
- Demoralized - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:53 pm:
‘The best way to predict the future is to create it,’”
A. Lincoln
- Aimtomisbehave - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:54 pm:
JB Pritzger announces plans to tax tumbleweeds in Illinois. “These tumbleweeds have been tumbling down Illinois Roads without paying gas taxes to maintain the pavement they’re drifting along.”
- @misterjayem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:55 pm:
“Get back in the bus, J.B. Even if he wasn’t a Republican, that guy hasn’t voted in years.”
– MrJM
- Nishi - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:56 pm:
“Behold! Southern Illinois!”
- Retired Educator - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 1:58 pm:
“I don’t care how big you say I am, I am not getting in the yoke to pull this thing”.
- Oswego WilIy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:01 pm:
Insert something stupid and inane here.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:03 pm:
“Dorfman. Where’s your pledge pin?”
- Iggy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:04 pm:
“It’s gonna cost the Illinois Tax payer thiiiis much to pay for a public option health care plan”
- Rich Miller - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:09 pm:
===public option health care plan===
There’s no taxpayer match. Try to keep up.
Carry on.
- Give Me A Break - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:10 pm:
One of two Democrats in Logan County (the other was taking the pic).
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:10 pm:
“How much for it all? Out the door price?”
- Jocko - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:11 pm:
As GOP stalwart, Abe feigns interest in his book to avoid engaging JB on the topic of Bruce Rauner.
- dbk - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:12 pm:
“Just me and Honest Abe, down here in the wilderness somewhere south of I-80.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:12 pm:
“I dunno if it’s scale, but we can photoshop me on the wagon, right?”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:13 pm:
“Hey guys, look. It’s Mayor Daley… “
- Rich Miller - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:16 pm:
===Out the door price?===
That made me laugh.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:27 pm:
“What’s next on the scavevger hunt? Superman? Ok, take the picture, let’s head to Metropolis”
- Responsa - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:39 pm:
“Just so you know, that covered wagon hasn’t got a toilet in it. I checked”.
- Century Club - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:42 pm:
I don’t know what he’s reading - something about a play he didn’t get to finish
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:44 pm:
“Just photoshop a windmill somewhere… it’s a good joke… “
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:45 pm:
Did you see how Blago threw me under the bus….I mean stagecoach?
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:50 pm:
I have an old jacket at home that might got this.
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:51 pm:
Got this.
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:51 pm:
Fit this.
- Keyrock - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:51 pm:
“How big is my bank account? So big.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:54 pm:
“Oh JB, can we get on the bus and go, it’s just an old surrey”
“Old surrey? That’s not what I see..
(Middle C… )
All the world’ll fly in a flurry
When I see Illinois in the surrey,
When I see Illinois in the surrey with Honest Abe on top
When we hit that road, hell fer leather,
Cats and dogs’ll dance in the heather,
Birds and frogs’ll sing all together and the toads will hop
The wind’ll whistle as we rattle along,
The cows’ll moo in the clover,
The river will ripple out a whispered song,
And whisper it over and over:
Don’t you wisht to campaign forever?
Don’t you wisht to campaign forever?
Don’t you wisht to campaign and ud never stop
In that shiny, little surrey with Honest Abe on the top
I can see the Ads gettin’ blurry,
When we ride back home in the surrey,
Ridin’ slowly home in the surrey with Honest Abe on top
I can feel the day gettin’ older,
Feel Abe’s head restin’ near my shoulder,
Noddin’, droopin’ close to my shoulder, till it falls kerplop
The sun is swimmin’ on the rim of a hill;
The moon is takin’ a header,
And jist as I’m thinkin’ all the earth is still,
A lark’ll wake up in the medder.
Hush, you bird, Honest Abe’s a-sleepin’
Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin’
Whoa! you team, and jist keep a-creepin’ at a slow clip clop.
Don’t you hurry with the surrey with Abe sleepin’ on the top”
(Pause)
“Get in the bus, k. Just get in the bus”
- OneMan - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:10 pm:
I see you took the toilets out of your vehicle to reduce the taxes on it as well….
- Blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:16 pm:
In my former life as Fred Flintstone, I ate a rack of dinosaur ribs this big.
- Amber Ale - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:19 pm:
JB seen from his Gold Coast home’s backyard as he attempts to get a historic preservation tax credit.
- AlfondoGonz - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:21 pm:
“You don;t have to pay taxes on the wagon if you simply remove the canvas”
- downstate commissioner - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:24 pm:
- Give Me A Break - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 2:10 pm: One of two Democrats in Logan County (the other was taking the pic).
Yeah,there was another one, but he moved out of state…
- Henry Francis - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:30 pm:
JB demonstrating that he will do everything and anything to stop the exodus of Illinoisians. Even if it means being a human road-block.
- SAP - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
When I was a growing up, the other kids in my neighborhood has Radio Flyers, but I had one of these.
- blue dog dem - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
Henry. That’s good.
- Anonymous - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:53 pm:
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- I Miss Bentohs - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 3:57 pm:
No JB I am sorry, that big Abe is not having a positive slimming affect.
Then can you make the picture real grainy-like and see if that helps?
- Bigtwich - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 4:04 pm:
Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus.
- Ivesdale - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 5:50 pm:
Babe the Blue Ox wasn’t available.
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 7:59 pm:
dianna gutted the mansion right down to the axel
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 8:10 pm:
The republican band wagon is unhitched
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 8:23 pm:
Did you just see him nod
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 8:36 pm:
here’s the rail to run Rauner out of town on
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 8:40 pm:
circle the prairie schooners, we got to save the lost republican party
- Rabid - Monday, Feb 5, 18 @ 8:52 pm:
biss see’s his shadow six more weeks of primary
- slcathena - Tuesday, Feb 6, 18 @ 12:50 am:
This wagon isn’t being recorded, right Abe?