- Man with a Plan - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
Child: Mom, what does “structural reforms” mean?
Mom: Why do you ask?
Child: The Governor told me he would put Mr. Bunny’s other ear back if I could get AFSCME to agree to structural reforms.
“I bought this real neat stove top hat at the Dollar Store but some adults said it was Lincoln’s and gave me this piece of paper with a bunch of zeroes…”
- Anon - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:35 pm:
“Snow long, Rauner.”
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Only 58 more then I’ll be the Speaker.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
“And I’ll name you… Janus”
- Leigh John-Ella - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:36 pm:
Joint House, Senate GOP 101st General Assembly caucus meeting
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
“When you see the governor, snowman, tell him to stay strong”
- AlfondoGonz - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
“Now is the winter of my discontent”
- JR - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:37 pm:
Photo of Bruce Rushton hiding his stash from the Marijuana Czar before he heads into the capitol. \s
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
“Gosh, Evelyn walks this way. Whatever you do, snowman, don’t trip her. You don’t have insurance”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:38 pm:
Jason Plummer awaits his swearing in to the Illinois Senate.
- Leigh John-Ella - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
Is the Tom threat over? Can we go back in now?
- Man with a Plan - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:39 pm:
Child: Mom, what does “structural reforms” mean?
Mom: Why do you ask?
Child: The Governor told me he would put Mr. Bunny’s other ear back if I could get AFSCME to agree to structural reforms.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
“All you need now is a vest… with some patches… “
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:40 pm:
Unfortunately, the young lad would soon learn that there was no magic in that old top hat he found. It was a fake.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:41 pm:
“I’d name you after the Republican Secretary of State nominee that just lost but no one knows his name… “
- Les Nessman - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:43 pm:
“And I will call him Tom”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:46 pm:
“I guess we’re at that point… are you going to join the union, pay fair share or completely opt out. Remember, snowman, you may melt… “
- Anon - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:47 pm:
Bruce didn’t have a snowman’s chance in Springfield of winning.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:47 pm:
“I bought this real neat stove top hat at the Dollar Store but some adults said it was Lincoln’s and gave me this piece of paper with a bunch of zeroes…”
- Earnest - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:50 pm:
Nice to see things being built up again instead of being torn down.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:51 pm:
“As a white male, I have no opinion on chocolate milk and cookies….”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:54 pm:
“I never heard of a snowman named Raunerbot”
- A Jack - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:54 pm:
The GA commissions a new statue of Mike Bilandic in time for the fourtieth anniversary of the Blizzard of 79.
- Leigh John-Ella - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 3:55 pm:
Rauner’s portrait is really lifelike.
Slap a carhardt vest on it and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
- SSL - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:02 pm:
Good start kid, but we’re going to need a lot more snow if you want to make your JB snowman. A lot more.
- Father Ted - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:02 pm:
As a white male, the snowman has no comment on the IPI’s political cartoons.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:04 pm:
The most mature person at the capital makes a snowman.
- don the legend - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:05 pm:
Now listen to me. When you eventually melt, and you will, it will be Madigan’s fault.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:06 pm:
“You’ll vote for Mike Madigan to Speak, right? Everyone has a right to talk… “
- Paul Powell - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:08 pm:
Shoeboxes last longer.
- stl boy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:20 pm:
Just a reminder of things you may not be able to do in Italy, Gov.
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
Snow Ziggy announces his candidacy for Mayor of Chicago. He knows all about ‘dibs’
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:32 pm:
“There. Now you owe $27,000 towards the state debt too.”
- Stumpy's bunker - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:35 pm:
“Mommy, why did that happy man with the apple call my snowman ‘an enduring monument to Rauner’s achievements”?
- revvedup - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:43 pm:
In the shadow of the powerful and mighty, a child builds a simple snowman, at once becoming more of a builder than many under the dome.
- walker - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 5:31 pm:
Nice job, little one.
- lost in the weeds - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 5:35 pm:
Where is the carrot?
- lost in the weeds - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 5:36 pm:
I need a carrot.
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 5:52 pm:
The search for someone colder and whiter than Jeanne Ives comes to an end.
- TominChicago - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 6:44 pm:
Henry Francis wins
- Anon - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 7:16 pm:
Despite the dejection of having to go to work with his parents on a snow day… he still managed to muster a halfhearted smile for his tiny snowman.
- Ivesdale - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 8:24 pm:
Randy lay there like a slug, it was his only defense.
- Billinois - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 9:10 pm:
Coalition building in Springfield.
- Orthogonian - Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 9:36 pm:
Replacing Rauner’s straw men when a snowman…
- Dennis - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:17 am:
It’s going to be a very cold long winter in Illinois. Just please snow more taxes.
- Anonymous - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 8:14 am:
News Flash…..Work at the Illinois Capitol results in something being built.
- Woah, but in a Keanu Reeves voice - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 8:54 am:
Breaking: Illinois to save millions by harvesting conservative salt this winter.