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* The photo is a little difficult to see because it was taken with a mobile phone kinda far away, but the photographer inadvertently caught a moment during David Vite’s retirement party last night when it almost appeared as if House Speaker Michael Madigan was bowing down to new House Republican Leader Jim Durkin…
Funniest commenter wins a free state legislative mobile app that I’m getting ready to roll out.
Our last winner was “Dirty Red” for this caption of a Bill Daley pic…
“Attention fair goers: would the owner of a green and white campaign tour bus please report to gate two. You’re parked on top of my crowning achievement……Green and white tour bus parked on top of my crowning achievement.”
Heh.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:37 am
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Hey Jim
“Your sock’s untied”
Comment by train111 Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:40 am
Big credit to Dirty Red for that winner, hardest I laughed all week.
Comment by The Captain Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:41 am
Durkin never saw the headbutt coming.
Comment by Downstate Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:41 am
“Name tags are for rookies.”
Comment by walkinfool Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:42 am
“The prophecy has been fulfilled…”
Comment by FirstStreet Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:46 am
“Jim, you’ve filled some pretty small shoes, I see.”
Comment by King Louis XVI Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:47 am
I think Madigan was straining to read durkin’s upside down name tag to figure out who the hell he was.
Comment by William j Kelly Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:47 am
Don’t get any ideas Jim, that quarter on the floor is mine.!!
Comment by VPlena Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:48 am
“Pay attention probie”
Comment by walkinfool Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:49 am
“Nicely done.
Your Coup is the stuff of Legend.
Congrats, ‘Oswego Willy’, Cross never saw it coming.”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:51 am
Speaker: “He’s going off script again…where is my HGOP remote control? I just had the it transferred from Cross…maybe I dropped it over here.”
Comment by unclesam Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:52 am
“Someone … someone on this stage ate all the Apples that were for decoration tonight. I won’t say… ‘Who ate the Apples’, but I hope they feel shame…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:54 am
Speaker Madigan invites Leader Durkin to play “ring toss.”
Comment by Pot calling kettle Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:56 am
Madigan: “My stomach hurts just thinking about breaking in another Republican leader.”
Comment by Norseman Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 9:58 am
Heh, those whom Madigan would destroy, he first bows to:
http://www.sj-r.com/photo_galleries/x403284157/Gov-Rod-Blagojevich-Photographic-History?img=5
Comment by ZC Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:01 am
“You are not going to win any races in those shoes.”
Comment by Phenomynous Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:02 am
Madigan thinking: If he steps back just a couple of inches he’ll be right on top of my remote controlled trap door. One wrong word…
Comment by Wensicia Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:06 am
“Nice moonwalk Mr. Speaker!”
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:09 am
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. –Samuel Beckett
Comment by Nonplussed Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:16 am
“It appears someone let all the air out of the tires of the ‘I-Team’ news van leaving Chuck Goudie unavailable to be here, but Goudie tweeted ‘All I know is there were apple cores next to each flat tire.’ ‘hash tags’ ’speaker’ and ‘horse head’.
Someone here should feel bad…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:17 am
“And Jim, this how your enter the room when wanting to speak with me.”
Comment by Our Magician Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:18 am
Keep your head down and follow through or you’ll two-putt, Jim.
Comment by Cincinnatus Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:19 am
“I know some are going to be disappointed, but giving me a new set of golf clubs, is not going to work on me, (cough) Mike Madigan, (cough). Someone should feel a little silly…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:20 am
Man these campaign donation bags sure are heavy!
Comment by Tankr Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:21 am
This week on Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom”, Marlin Perkins shows film of the wild mountain Ram in his natural habitat getting ready to face down his rival.
Comment by dupage dan Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:22 am
Jim, I think you stepped in something.
Comment by the unknown poster Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:23 am
“No Speaker, don’t get up you can keep that chair for a few more years.”
Comment by siriusly Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:38 am
Check out the first gif–this is what Madigan is going for: http://www.goat-trauma.org/action.shtml
Comment by Chavez-respecting Obamist Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:41 am
“Jim, when you bow before me you go like this - got it?”
Comment by Darienite Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:56 am
It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Jim, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Comment by dupage dan Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:57 am
Remember the ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up’ commercial? Watch my foot.
Comment by zatoichi Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:59 am
He stooped to conquer
Comment by Gurnge Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:03 am
Jim this is the last time I will be behind you in any cirmunstance.
Comment by Give Me A Break Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:06 am
Madigan strains under the weight of leading a veto-proof majority, a burden that Durkin cannot possibly imagine.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:07 am
I dub thee Sir Mike Madigan, Knight of the Royal Empire, slayer of Cross, upsurper of Quinn, climber of Mt Pension, and vanquisher of the GOP.
Comment by AFSCME Steward Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:31 am
Madigan thinking to himself, “I wonder why he has boots on, I didn’t see any horses or cows around”
Comment by 3rd Generation Chicago Native Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:33 am
Why do I have to step over the bodies of Cross and Poe to get to the podium?
Comment by A guy... Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 12:32 pm
Madigan isn’t bowing, he’s dozing off……that’s almost the exact same pose my son does in his carseat during a drive longer than 10 minutes.
Comment by TCB Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 12:54 pm
Oh look… a penny.
Madigan 1… Durkin 0.
Comment by Anonymous Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 1:22 pm
“House Speaker Michael Madigan narrowly escaped injury this evening when a political prank failed to launch. A large plywood sign painted “Grogran for Treasururur CPA” had been rigged with firecrackers, Fizzies, lifting weights and duct tape and would have popped up on the stage, damaging anything in its path. Madigan detected the potential debacle and stopped it with a light kick, saying later “I know non-Union work when I see it.”
Comment by Arthur Andersen Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 1:37 pm
“You Rang?”
Comment by Stones Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 3:22 pm
“I thought only Obama did that? Must be a Democrat thing.”
Comment by Boone's is Back Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 4:22 pm
“Eject button, eject button, dang it, Quinn said it was right back here…”
Comment by Realist Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 4:38 pm
Madigan: Oh, sorry Tom, I didn’t see you down there.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 4:46 pm
Michelle Flaherty wins.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 5:10 pm
“Oh, excuse me a moment folks (as Durkin turns quickly to MJM and whispers a bit loudly)…Uh–Mr. Speaker, I think your uh, well, YA know…is Open; Oh…no, no, that’s, that’s a FINger, I see it better now–um, sorry, Mike–OH boy, sorry again…but)–then returning to his remarks– ANYway, folks, sorry for that little interruption there, ahem, so as I was just SAYing….” (!)
Comment by Just The Way It Is One Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 7:36 pm
Can I trade the app for a drink?
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 10:07 pm
that’s not a request, that’s my Madigan comment.
Comment by Michelle Flaherty Thursday, Sep 19, 13 @ 11:07 pm
Scene:Karate Kid Theme Music playing softly in the background.
Madigan Bows.
Quinn yells “FIGHT!”
Comment by Pete Friday, Sep 20, 13 @ 8:09 am
I’m not bowing, just looking for my cell phone.
Comment by polisciprof Friday, Sep 20, 13 @ 11:53 am