26 Comments - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:12 am: ===Budget impasses are very expensive, in other words.=== Tell that to the 99th General Assembly. “I’m frustrated too but taking steps to reform Illinois is more important than a short term budget stalemate.” Right? Exactly right. (hashtag) 152-20 - wordslinger - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:12 am: –In fact, thanks to Republicans, we were able to reduce or eliminate more than a dozen Democrat bills that would have increased state spending by more than $500 million each year.– Huh. When did Republicans get the majority? - Grandson of Man - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:23 am: “I want to commend Gov. Bruce Rauner for his leadership on this important issue.” What’s the old saying? Lead, follow or get out of the way. Rauner nullified himself, refusing to agree to anything, lying to people, moving the goalpoasts, mocking compromise efforts, etc. The GA apparently had enough. - Anonymous - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:27 am: Some of these bills overlap. For example, there are 3 DSP Bills and 2 of them are identical. 1 of them never made it out of the House Rules Committee…Can Senate Republicans really take credit for that?? - Ducky LaMoore - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:27 am: ===HB 4289 - Medicaid Coverage for Autism - Exact amount unknown.=== Yeah, run hard on that, Bill. - PJ - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:34 am: You gotta love that list of bills he’s proud to have defeated. Coverage for autism? Buried it! Livable wages for front-line care workers? Crushed! - Anon221 - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:35 am: Maybe Bill should have a talk with his spokesperson about what to crow about. That list of bills he appears to be so proud of holding up is campaign fodder for a Democrat opponent should one appear sometime. The “I stood against support for autistic kids, Medicaid recipients, caregivers, sick old people, and foster kids,” should play really well for him, I’m sure. - 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:45 am: Senate Republicans don’t believe in paying a livable wage. Check. Senate Republicans don’t support foster parents. Check. Senate Republicans don’t want Autism covered under Medicaid. Check. Yes, go with that Leader Brady. Run on your record. Please. Also, it’s Democratic, as in, you killed a dozen Democratic bills. Maybe you could find room in next year’s budget for a dictionary so you can understand the difference between a noun and an adjective. - mcmanus - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 11:46 am: Anonymous is right. It is very misleading to list two identical bills to raise disability workers’ wages, costing $300 million each, and call it a $600 saving! Those bills were introduced in the House and Senate with the intention that only one would survive. - Annonin' - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:22 pm: So the GOPies count as cuts items that only occur when they fail to get a budget done. Yikes - seenthebigpicture - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:25 pm: My wife is a DSP. It takes a special person to care for the mentally and physically disabled. anyone in her field deserves better pay for the work they do. - Perrid - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 12:51 pm: I basically read that list as “F#$* poor/sick people and those that are trying to help them,” which is basically the conservative platform, so maybe it’s a good thing for him to be crowing about, but the tone deafness is stunning to me. - SaulGoodman - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:05 pm: Wait - so Brady is claiming savings in the budget because it doesn’t include big rate increases in bills that passed this year, but literally no one thought Rauner would sign? - m - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:12 pm: =Also, it’s Democratic, as in, you killed a dozen Democratic bills. Maybe you could find room in next year’s budget for a dictionary so you can understand the difference between a noun and an adjective.= Since nothing is going on today… Because he capitalized the D, it could be defended as using Democrat as a formal name. If Madigan has bills that you are discussing, it would be acceptable to refer to them as “Madigan bills” in the same fashion. Though it would not be acceptable to also use the phrase “Democrat Party,” but that’s for a different reason. The reality is that the two are connected and part of a long-standing practice of losing the “ic” to imply that the party is not truly democratic. They have both become SOP for the GOP. - 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:16 pm: It’s an insult m, and Brady either knows it or should. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the others certainly know it as an insult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet) - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:21 pm: “Democrat” Party is an insult. I know this as a Republican as I’m confronted with this slight as a reason others who speak with me call the GOP petty and trolling to Democrats. It’s used to disparage. It’s a whistle to the Right as someone or something bad by attaching that word choice, purposely to make a disparaging point. Why Repubs continue to want division… then also champion the suppression of voters… instead of attracting more voters… - m - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:26 pm: =It’s an insult m, and Brady either knows it or should. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the others certainly know it as an insult.= I’m not really disagreeing. I believe an insult is the idea behind it. But “Democrat Party” would be an insult and improper usage. “Democrat bills” would not be improper, and could be debated whether it is an insult. In this case, it is an eponymous noun, which interestingly enough, often involves adding something like an “ic” to the end (as in Abrahamic faiths), unlike this case which involves dropping the “ic.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_adjectives_in_English - 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:49 pm: ===In this case, it is an eponymous noun,=== No it is not. The proper name is the Democratic Party. It is an established, long-standing name of an organization that’s been operating for many decades. To call it something that it is not is, at a minimum, rude. You can’t rename a political party, no matter how you’d like to. - Lucky Pierre - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 1:57 pm: Didn’t Democrats effectively kill these bills by not funding them in accordance with the balanced budget requirement? Check - Demoralized - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:32 pm: ==Didn’t Democrats effectively kill these bills == Brady said: “thanks to Republicans, we were able to reduce or eliminate more than a dozen Democrat bills” You’re deviating from the talking points LP - Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:33 pm: ===…with the balanced budget requirement?=== Take that up with Governor Rauner and his signature. - m - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:46 pm: =No it is not. The proper name is the Democratic Party. It is an established, long-standing name of an organization that’s been operating for many decades. To call it something that it is not is, at a minimum, rude.= You can’t rename a political party, no matter how you’d like to. = “Democrat” is an established, long-standing name for a member of the Democratic Party, accepted and used by the members of said party. “Democrat” as used in “Democrat bills” is an eponymous noun. Otherwise, according to your logic, the term “Democrat” would be an insult whenever it is used to describe a member of the party. If not, and if it’s ok to say “Madigan is a Democrat”, which I think we can all agree on, then the word is an eponymous noun in Brady’s usage. You don’t get to change the rules of the English language just because you don’t like them. - 47th Ward - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 2:54 pm: ===You don’t get to change the rules of the English language just because you don’t like them.=== Well said. Neither then do you. Democrat is a noun, democratic is an adjective. The Democratic Party is the official name for the party. Democrats are members of the Democratic Party. It is both rude and incorrect to refer to it as the Democrat Party, Democrat bills, Democrat leadership, etc. When referring to the Democratic Party, you should simply call it by its proper name, the Democratic Party. Good day sir. - Rich Miller - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 3:18 pm: Oh, for crying out loud, this is a budget post. Get back to the topic. - m - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 3:21 pm: =Oh, for crying out loud, this is a budget post. Get back to the topic.= It’s a slow day. Sorry. - wordslinger - Monday, Jun 11, 18 @ 4:49 pm: –I’m not really disagreeing. I believe an insult is the idea behind it. But “Democrat Party” would be an insult and improper usage. “Democrat bills” would not be improper, and could be debated whether it is an insult.– On the one hand, you spend a lot of time wandering aimlessly around the barn. On the other hand, see the the first hand. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.