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I know I don’t have to say this, but keep it clean, people. Thanks.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 3:28 am

Comments

Ed Burke promised me a better property tax deal on my house.

Comment by Steve Bartin Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 3:46 am
Mike,

Have you considered retiring…I’d like to be king maker for a while?

Comment by doug dobmeyer Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 4:11 am
“Bye bye baby.”

Comment by Precinct Captain Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 4:48 am
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 4:50 am
wadda we do about this guy named “Quinn”?

Comment by One to the Dome Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 6:25 am
You know those Cubs tickets we talked about? Never mind.

Comment by Lefty Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 6:29 am
You know who is the new sheriff in town now? This Guy…

Comment by OneMan Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:02 am
Was it your idea to dump Olin Kreutz? It wasn’t mine!!

Comment by South of I-80 Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:07 am
Did you see what Rich Miller wrote this morning in the CapFax?

Comment by dave Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:13 am
This is my town now, I got this.

Comment by Allen Skillicorn Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:24 am
“I’ll make Quinn an offer he can’t refuse …”

word grabbed the cannoli bit.

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:48 am
How DARE you ask me where my children are going to school! You’ve done this before!

Comment by Leroy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:49 am
“I’m going to blame Quinn, you blame Quinn too, then we’ll let Quinn and Cross blame you, Speaker, so I still look like the good guy…”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:51 am
“I said, no more shines, I’m the Mayor now. Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been in Springfield a long time. They didn’t go down there and tell you. I don’t shine shoes anymore. You see, Speaker, sometimes you don’t sound like you’re kidding, you know, there’s a lotta people around…”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:56 am
“Lemme tell YOU how it works now, ‘MR. SPEAKER’, Eddie Burke is driving HIMSELF to work now … Capice? …”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:01 am
“Speaker, I am so sorry. What I should have said is there are 6 jobs worth having in government; President, Governor of California, Governor of New York, Mayor of New York, Mayor of Chicago, AND Speaker of the Illinois General Assembly. I made a mistake, okay? …serioulsy … I am sorry.”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:04 am
“When I get done with Burt Odelson, the only ‘lawyering’ he will be doing is traffic tickets and real estate closings…”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:06 am
So which one of us do you think those guys over there are more scared of?

Comment by Elmhurst Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:08 am
Barack promised all this stimulus money! Now what are we going to do?

Comment by Bob Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:09 am
When you guys do that charity show down in Springfield, I will tell you is going to get the principal dance role, this guy…

Comment by OneMan Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:17 am
That’s a really nifty red tie, Mike. That’ll trick them into thinking that we’re bipartisan. Maybe we should all get red ties.

Comment by Aldyth Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:18 am
RE: “This briefcase. It’s ‘Betsy’. All the CUB meeting minutes and Super 8 receipts. Right here.”

Comment by Dooley Dudright Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:34 am
“So I was supposed to get the Paul McCartney tickets? Well, crap.”

– MrJM

Comment by MrJM Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:37 am
Why don’t you bring the misses, Lisa and the kids over for a bbq on sunday?

Comment by Huh? Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:55 am
Roy Williams AND Marion Barber? Two thumbs up!

Comment by Stones Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:58 am
Ok, now we got to make Quinn responsible for the City’s budget problems. Shouldn’t be too hard - he just loves to hear himself talk. He’ll say anything if it makes him think that he’s in charge.

Comment by Judgment Day Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:02 am
“Quinn’s an idiot… pass it on”

Comment by Fed Up Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:02 am
“Nice job on the new maps, Mike. Don’t you love how the hapless GOP claims the maps are unfair to Latinos?”

Comment by reform Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:08 am
Scott Walker’s got nothin on me!

Comment by Wumpus Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:19 am
And that’s what we’re gonna be, Mike. We’re gonna be cool.

Comment by The Third Ex Cub Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:24 am
Me, or Lisa after Pat?

Comment by Cincinnatus Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:24 am
“What’s that? You say you’ve stabbed me with an invisible knife? You’ve gone mad again!”

Comment by aufjunk Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:26 am
Mike, go with me here, there’s a guy with a camera over there and I see a caption contest where “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli” will be rehashed for the one-thousandth time on Capitol Fax. Hilarious.

[Sorry wordslinger, but you phoned it in. I know you’re better than that.]

Comment by just sayin' Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:35 am
G. Gordon Libby put his hand over the flame for a long time. That’s nothing. I held out til my finger was cut in half. Just a reminder about who is tough.

Comment by amalia Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:38 am
The most powerful man in Illinois state politics confers with the most powerful man in Illinois state politics.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:39 am
So you had issues with Rich; I had issues with Rich. But we had to play nice with him. He’s gone now, and this is what I think we should do . . . .

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:40 am
They need you in Washington.

Comment by walkinfool Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:42 am
See, Mike, they’ve got these things new things called “smartphones” that let you send texts and emails as well as talk. Mine comes with a full keyboard on which I can type over 30 words per minute with just my thumbs.

Comment by Bluefish Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:43 am
Those #@%!!*# unions want to say I forgot where I came from? #@%!!* them. Look at me leaning leaning left here. %$!##!

Comment by just sayin' Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:45 am
So here’s how you deal with the labor unions, its a combo of a pink slip and a dead fish, I call it a Lox and Bagel.

Comment by JBilla Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:56 am
Rahm: Okay, I’ll demonstrate. One, two, three, four, I declare a thumb war. Now let’s try it together.

Comment by Cheswick Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:57 am
Madigan: Jump a shark? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard!
Emmanuel: Stupid, yes. Also dumb. But it is something I’ve gotta do. Heyy!

Comment by The Third Ex Cub Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:08 am
We get rid of the mamaluc Quinn, and Lisa gets the nod.Deal?

Comment by mokenavince Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:15 am
Do you ever have a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

No?

Why am I the only one.

(h/t Real Genius. Great movie.)

Comment by Elmhurst Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:17 am
“OK Mike, you’re an expert on this, so I’m interested in your opinion…….how long do I wait to squish Ed Burke like a bug?”

Comment by Ghost of John Brown Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:17 am
RE: I know it’s early, but my 2 thumbs up this week goes to Kirk for transforming Lynn Sweet’s blog into his own personal craigslist. Did you see him trying to woo the Daleys? Class.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:18 am
So, this apple thing… can you hook me up?

Comment by teachin... Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:26 am
I saw we’re #50 on the net asset poll. What’s your plan?

Comment by zatoichi Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:37 am
So we could wrap the fish or just lay it in the box.

Comment by KeepSmiling Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:38 am
Rahm: “…… and then it just pops out and swims away.”
Mike: ” wow so that’s where baby whales come from…. cool.”

Comment by dizzy cow Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:41 am
Mike, did you hear shark week started last night?

Comment by Political Junkie Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:41 am
Mike if anyone asks, tell them I’m taller than Putin and that I am a black belt in ballet.

Comment by Lady GaGa Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 10:58 am
Okay, remind me again… who is that bald guy that keeps talking but never says anything?

Comment by Voice of Experience Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:01 am
Ok Mike, it’s thumbs-up for now, but cross me and you’ll get what’s left of my middle finger.

Comment by PublicServant Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:05 am
“Rich Miller told them to keep comments about my hand gestures here clean. That’s even more ridiculous than Mary Ann Ahern bugging me about my kids going to the Lab School.”

Comment by Boone Logan Square Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:06 am
My staff screwed up, my briefing notes said, “Leave the gun, take the cannoli,” and now I have this pain right here….

Comment by soccermom Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:06 am
Your daughter Lisa, she’s got a daughter right? Well, I have a son. This state is nuts for aristocracy. Let’s say we call the shadchen to arrange something for the 2020s.

Comment by cermak_rd Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:24 am
” (sniff) Blackbeards Delight or London Gentleman? Wait, don’t tell me. You’re wearing Sex Panther!!!”

Comment by Hot Sauce Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:27 am
New Chicago Mayor blows lint off Speaker’s jacket.

Comment by bored with press Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:30 am
“Speaker … (whispering) …I’m Batman”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:31 am
“Hey Mike…all the times I yelled about that zanny Duckworth, forget about it.
Now, when do I get my casino?
Got have it right away.”

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:35 am
Rahm “That’s my stomach growling, maybe we can get something to eat at The Cubby Bear or Harry Carey’s before the concert” “Are you in Mike?”

Comment by 3rd Generation Chicago Native Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:40 am
Obama gave me this tie…I used to work at the White House, you know.

Comment by Excessively Rabid Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:49 am
“I know you’re not stupid, so maybe you’re just deaf. I said, I’M THE NEW DEM BOSS IN DIS TOWN!”

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 11:59 am
“How would I handle Pat Quinn … Speaker, there’s two kinds of dumb, uh… guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in your living room. First one don’t matter, the second one you’re kinda forced to deal with. Pat Quinn is barking in your living room …”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:04 pm
“Mike, nothing hurts as much as you think it will. You go numb… then you wrap your belt around your wrist and get to the nearest hospital.”

Comment by 10th Indy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:11 pm
“So Rich calls me on his last day, and he says, Rahm, I put two envelopes for you in the top desk drawer. But I don’t get it. Mike, do you know what this is about? Is it some kind of south side thing?”

Comment by Don't Worry, Be Happy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:20 pm
it’s my training. i am graceful. this IS how i butt heads.

Comment by olin Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:33 pm
…so, I ask him…if you really believe you are Abe Lincoln one day, Ronald Reagan the next, and Dirksen the day after that, what does that make me and Mike on those days…and you know what he said?….

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:38 pm
“Over/under, Zagel gives Rod 12 years on Oct. 6. I have fifty bucks on the over.”

Comment by Boone Logan Square Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:39 pm
“How you like DEM apples?”

Comment by Gregor Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:42 pm
No, we should do it now, while Miller’s web site is still dark. No one will ever understand what our thing really does and by the time he decides to come back to work, some other crazy issue will distract his commenters and no one will be talking about us. Now is the time Speaker.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:44 pm
Listen, Mike, the Daleys and the President sent me to Chicago to work with you to scrape up the dough to keep our man BO in the White House. Maybe your kid wants to go federal?

Comment by Cook County Commoner Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:46 pm
“You’ll get thanks and appreciation . . . If you know what I’m saying.”

Comment by The End Is Near Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:50 pm
“Speaker, before we start this meeting… when you told me ‘You’ll be fine’ out in the hallway… what does that really mean?…”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 12:55 pm
Lou Reed shares secrets of the Transformer recordings sessions.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 1:22 pm
When I walk into a room wearing this tie, the ladies just seem to pass out…they can’t help themselves.

Comment by Goodnight Ladies Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 1:38 pm
UH Mr. Speaker you that happy to see me?

Comment by railrat Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 1:52 pm
Hey Mikey, let me be king for a day!!!!!!

Comment by Greg G. Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 2:23 pm
So I was telling LiLi, that’s my pet name for your daughter, oh, I uh probably should not have told you that.

Comment by Tommydanger Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 2:46 pm
Rahm: “So when you cut the apple you cut it towards you?”

Comment by Bring Back Boone's Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 2:50 pm
Pardon me, but do you have any grey poupon?

Comment by Clark Kent Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 2:55 pm
Rahm-Looks like I got out DC when the getting was good, huh?

Comment by Come on man! Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 5:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLzqQupzzmA&feature=related

Comment by WazUP Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 5:25 pm
I’ve looked through the Chicago budget now. Can you tell me where to get some of those magic beans?

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 5:29 pm
Let’s blow this pop stand and see if Miller will buy a drink down at………………..

Comment by x ace Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 6:46 pm
“When I left town in ‘92 with Clinton you were carrying that George Bailey-sized briefcase. When I came back in 2000 and left in 2004, you were still carrying it. Now, I come back from DC in 2010 and you continue to carry that raft-sized thing. Mr. Speaker, I am curious. What IS in there?”

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:13 pm
Can you get me a good table at Saputo’s?

Comment by Pat Robertson Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:20 pm
Rahm: I really want what is best for the people of Chicago, just as you want what is best for the people of Illinois. hahahahahahahahahahahha…..

Comment by John A Logan Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 7:27 pm
Just Sayin, LOL, I was up early and just wanted to beat Oswego Willie to it.

It’s on AMC right now how about this?

“… it’s nothing personal, Mikey. Just business.”

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 8:41 pm
Hey word …

Watching it now too …”go to the mattresses”

Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:27 pm
Rahm to Mike: You talkin to me? You Talkin to me about budgets? I run the show Mike……

Comment by Rahm's Parking Meter Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:41 pm
Over there. At about 2:00. With the mic. Ain’t that Roma?

Comment by zatoichi Monday, Aug 1, 11 @ 9:44 pm

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