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* Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to ____?

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:33 pm

Comments

1. An apple at noon.

   Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:34 pm

2. roundabout

   Comment by Levois Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:36 pm

3. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “The Program”.

   Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:36 pm

4. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to being patiently silent.

   Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:37 pm

5. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Tanking the Turnaround Agenda”.

   Comment by Nick Naylor Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:38 pm

6. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to giving just enough rope to “friends”.

   Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:38 pm

7. Deflecting blame

   Comment by Dan Egan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:43 pm

8. Governor Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “The Sound of Silence”.

   Comment by Aldyth Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:43 pm

9. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to understanding Illinois politics

   Comment by BlameBruceRauner Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm

10. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Yeah, um, that’s not my Agenda…”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm

11. 60 votes.

    Comment by Lord Stanley's Cup Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:46 pm

12. Bruce is to turnaround as Mike is to his table wine

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:48 pm

13. Saputo’s?!

    Comment by Team Sleep Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:51 pm

14. Rainer is to his turnaround agenda as Madigan is to eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables for his midday snack.

    (Not very successful, in other words )

    Comment by Roadiepig Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:52 pm

15. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Bendover Agenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:54 pm

16. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “you’ll be fine”.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:54 pm

17. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Burntotheground Defenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm

18. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to a “Turnaround Agenda”.

    Comment by Steve Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:56 pm

19. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Runaground Agenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:57 pm

20. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “well, good luck with that…”.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm

21. …the iceberg the Titanic hit.

    Comment by IllinoisBoi Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm

22. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Cubs World Series Winner”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:58 pm

23. VMan, your killing it!

    Comment by WhoKnew Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 12:59 pm

24. Is to turnaround as is to driving

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:00 pm

25. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “I’ll never surrenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:02 pm

26. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “remember when you broke our deal? Yeah, me too.”.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm

27. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “I’m no pretenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:03 pm

28. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Vote-down Agenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm

29. Governor is to turnaround as the speaker is to turndown

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:06 pm

30. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing.”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:07 pm

31. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Beclown the Pretenda”

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:07 pm

32. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Fool me once…”.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm

33. Meddling with the ALPLM.

    Comment by Blago's Luxurious Grey Mane Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:09 pm

34. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Smack-down Unfriend-ya”

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm

35. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Stay the Course”

    Comment by Commonsense in Illinois Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm

36. Merry-go-round.

    Comment by Not it Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:10 pm

37. Being Speaker

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:12 pm

38. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Hands-Down Big-Spenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:14 pm

39. Lisa

    Comment by Outsider Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:16 pm

40. Status Quo!

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm

41. “Union talking points”

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:17 pm

42. Governor Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his “Pension Reform”.

    Comment by Yossarian Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:18 pm

43. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Confound Addenda”.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:19 pm

44. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “Not going to get around to it Agenda”.

    Comment by XDNR Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm

45. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” racing forward as Speaker Madigan is to painting a tunnel entrance on the side of a mountain.

    Comment by DuPage Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm

46. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to running silent and running deep.

    Comment by Amalia Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:20 pm

47. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to With kindest personal regards, I remain sincerely…

    Comment by LizPhairTax Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:21 pm

48. Turnaround agenda is to a one way do not enter

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:24 pm

49. Uas madigan is to unions.

    Comment by stlboy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:31 pm

50. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to underfunding state pensions.

    Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:41 pm

51. http://www.clker.com/cliparts/1/7/c/e/1194989548506685753no_u_turn_sign_01.svg.hi.png

    Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:43 pm

52. Nothing.

    The Speaker does not waste time or political capital on matters that do not have a chance.

    Comment by Gooner Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:44 pm

53. Rauner is to turnaround as madigan is to standing ground

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:47 pm

54. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to waiting…

    Comment by Wensicia Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:48 pm

55. A balancing Wallenda

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:50 pm

56. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his “Supermajority Advantage”

    Comment by Enviro Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 1:54 pm

57. “The About Face Agenda”

    Comment by Boone's is Back Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:06 pm

58. Rauner is to his Turnaround Agenda as Madigan is to his House Rules.

    Comment by walker Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:07 pm

59. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “You’re Not Helping”.

    Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:08 pm

60. Joe Berrios.

    Comment by Under Further Review Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:14 pm

61. VanillaMan Wins!!!

    VanillaMan- 11
    Oswego Willy- 9

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:22 pm

62. Speaker Madigan is to political tactician as Rauner is to political Rube Goldberg.

    Comment by PublicServant Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:22 pm

63. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “turn around and leave my office…”

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:24 pm

64. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his structured roll calls.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:26 pm

65. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to sending it to Rules to languish and die.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:27 pm

66. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to doing the governor a favor and not having a vote on it.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:28 pm

67. Wait we have a new Winner!!
    Oswego Willy!!!-12

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:29 pm

68. loyalty

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:31 pm

69. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his 13th Ward.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:32 pm

70. destroying pensions

    Comment by been there Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:34 pm

71. Tryagain Agenda

    Comment by Anon Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 2:40 pm

72. Since I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never outdo Willy in quantity, I just do what everyone else does around here - outdo him in quality.

    Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:03 pm

73. Oh - VanillaMan -, the light blue governor Bruce Rauner thanks you, lol

    ov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to his Madi-Knife apple peeler

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:05 pm

74. keeping a majority (speaker)NOT (leader)

    Comment by facts are stubborn things Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 3:47 pm

75. Apples

    Comment by Earnest Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:02 pm

76. As Speaker Madigan is to “helping” large downtown Chicago Building owners save some money.

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:06 pm

77. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to…We’ll speak to that soon. We’re still studying it. Check in with Steve Brown in a couple of days.

    Comment by A guy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:12 pm

78. - A Guy -,

    “We’ll speak to that soon. We’re still studying it. Check in with Mike Schrimpf in a couple of days.”

    That’s the Rauner playbook, two years running.

    Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to Notre Dame.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:17 pm

79. OW, if you see Shrimpf and Brown together, you’ll know something’s cooking. Until then, focus on their studies. lol

    Comment by A guy Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:22 pm

80. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to pension reform.

    Comment by AC Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:43 pm

81. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “shared control”.

    Comment by logic not emotion Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:55 pm

82. “…Trying to fill a budget hole without actually filling it”.

    Comment by Judgment Day Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 4:58 pm

83. Rauner is to Turnaround Agenda as
    Madigan is to Underconsideration Agenda.

    Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 5:08 pm

84. Rauner is to Turnaround Agenda as
    Madigan is to House Calendar.

    Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 5:09 pm

85. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to “actual stuff.”

    Comment by late to the party Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 6:05 pm

86. Rauner is to turnaround as madigan is to turning on

    Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 6:58 pm

87. Control.

    Comment by See the forest Tuesday, May 5, 15 @ 8:39 pm

88. “is being a member of Oswego Willy’s party.”

    Comment by Western Ave. Doug Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 12:38 am

89. - WAD -, feel better? lol. Rauner is a Raunerite, not a Republican. Please learn.

    Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to the autonomy of the Legislative Branch.

    Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 2:52 am

90. Gov. Rauner is to his “Turnaround Agenda” as Speaker Madigan is to Brass doors on the Capitol.

    Comment by A guy Wednesday, May 6, 15 @ 8:45 am

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