DISQUS

CapitolFax.com: Question of the day

  • How Ironic · 1 year ago
    FUBAR
  • the Other Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Bloodsport.
  • Amuzing Myself · 1 year ago
    chaos
  • Anonymous45 · 1 year ago
    wackadoodle
  • Reader · 1 year ago
    Ridiculous
  • Ghost · 1 year ago
    WAR!
  • Ghost · 1 year ago
    internecine
  • Dan S, a voter and Cubs Fan · 1 year ago
    circlejerk
  • S. Illinois · 1 year ago
    ";oiweriosdfdfj;asdiofuaposidf&%%#asdfk" In other words...incomprehensible nonsense.
  • Fries is Extra · 1 year ago
    insane
  • Sir Reel · 1 year ago
    Joke
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    pathetic
  • anon · 1 year ago
    baffling
  • VanillaMan · 1 year ago
    Chicagoan
  • John Bambenek · 1 year ago
    Epic Fail.

    Ok that's two words.
  • Frost · 1 year ago
    counterproductive
  • Newbie · 1 year ago
    Toxic
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    Testicular
  • Montrose · 1 year ago
    ironic
  • Moderate Repub · 1 year ago
    circus
  • fan of cap fax · 1 year ago
    Sad!
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    untruthiness
  • Muskrat · 1 year ago
    Egomaniacal.
  • culatr · 1 year ago
    cluster
  • HV in HP · 1 year ago
    delicious
  • ZC · 1 year ago
    Raw
  • Capitol View · 1 year ago
    Oblivious

    (there is a state goverment to run, folks. Get over the political games and start acting responsibly.)
  • Rich Miller · 1 year ago
    Enriching
  • ChiCountryGuy · 1 year ago
    DEMOCRATS
  • Larry Mullholand · 1 year ago
    Shameful
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    Kleptocracy
  • Ghost · 1 year ago
    lol @ Rich
  • Huh? · 1 year ago
    I have to use 3 words

    Circular Firing Squad
  • Railfan · 1 year ago
    Farkakte.
  • S. Illinois · 1 year ago
    Yes, Mr. Miller, you have quite the lemonade stand going. lol
  • Phineas J. Whoopee · 1 year ago
    Jeepers, I can't be the first one to say what Illinois Politics is:

    Corrupt!
  • BandCamp · 1 year ago
    Chicago
  • bored now · 1 year ago
    gotta go with whoopee here. i'm not sure how much a difference rich's word is, although i'm certain he meant it for himself. but the same word seems to be true for many illinois pols, as well...
  • Painfully Obvious · 1 year ago
    Disfunctional
  • IlliniM · 1 year ago
    Emilriffic
    Blagotastic
  • shorty · 1 year ago
    incompetant
  • BehindTheScenes · 1 year ago
    Bizarre!
  • A Citizen · 1 year ago
    Intoxicating
  • freddy · 1 year ago
    SICKENING
  • Rod sez I'm pork · 1 year ago
    Puerile
  • North of I-80 · 1 year ago
    Corrupt -used already so:

    Selfish

    Of 1 phrase can be used:

    Pay to Play
  • Speaking At Will · 1 year ago
    exemplary
  • Ken in Aurora · 1 year ago
    With a tip of the hat to our host...

    "Rodomized"
  • Commonsense in Illinois · 1 year ago
    Closed
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Sophomoric (from dictionary.com): conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
  • Siyotanka · 1 year ago
    Boondoggle
  • MetroEast · 1 year ago
    "Most Corrupt State"
  • MetroEast · 1 year ago
    One word...A toss between Corrupt and Dysfunctional
  • Anonish · 1 year ago
    preschool sandbox
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    Incestuous
  • bored on 1 · 1 year ago
    Constipated
  • clj · 1 year ago
    Democracy
  • HoBoSkillet · 1 year ago
    HA!
  • Frank W · 1 year ago
    Machiavellian
  • Slice & Dice · 1 year ago
    I liked FUBAR but will go with SNAFU
  • Phineas J. Whoopee · 1 year ago
    Incestorruptional
  • Policy from the Right · 1 year ago
    Dictator for 24 out of 26 years
  • Skeptic Cal · 1 year ago
    Quoting from the matchmaker Michaleen Oge Flynn (played by Barry Fitsgerald) in "The Quiet Man" the word is " HOMERIC "
  • romeosatan · 1 year ago
    governorincompetantbackbenchergoingtoprisonandwillnotpassgo
  • Belle · 1 year ago
    BoughtNPaid4
  • Patriot · 1 year ago
    Patronage
  • Micky · 1 year ago
    How about "nauseating" - I don't know about everybody else but, that is the feeling I get whenever I think about this whole "process"!
  • observation · 1 year ago
    Embarrassing. (I actually used it this week when explaining the Special Session to visitors from the UK).
  • Little Egypt · 1 year ago
    NON-testicular
  • Plutocrat03 · 1 year ago
    whosencya
  • OneManBlog · 1 year ago
    personal
  • wordslinger · 1 year ago
    Complex.
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Infuriating, yet entertaining
  • Ken in Aurora · 1 year ago
    Anxiously awaiting Bill's entry...
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Say, this isn't one of those QOTDs designed to generate multiple short answers to show increased visitor traffic during significant events at the statehouse, is it?

    Works for me!
  • 47th Ward · 1 year ago
    Demo-licious
  • Hickory · 1 year ago
    Inept!
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    Yummy
    Addictive
    (To a lif long pol junkie like me!)
  • Pickles!! · 1 year ago
    Comedic
  • crackpot · 1 year ago
    NeoFeudalism
  • Springfield Alum · 1 year ago
    Fukudome
  • Daley · 1 year ago
    Machine.
  • IllinoisBelows · 1 year ago
    Expected....can we make Chicago it's own state??
  • 4% · 1 year ago
    fascinating
  • Ivory-billed Woodpecker · 1 year ago
    Stalemated.
  • iPhone · 1 year ago
    Elvis!
  • Carleenp · 1 year ago
    Frustrating.
  • Steve · 1 year ago
    Burke
  • cermak_rd · 1 year ago
    complicated
  • Lefty Lefty · 1 year ago
    Hellhole
  • Ken · 1 year ago
    ASININE
  • Retired IDOCC · 1 year ago
    Emilblagoized
  • Kevin Fanning · 1 year ago
    Vindictive
  • South Side Mike · 1 year ago
    Anencephalic

    (relates to the disease that causes babies to not develop major portions of the brain during a pregnancy)
  • anon · 1 year ago
    purchasable
  • Tom B. · 1 year ago
    Nuts
  • whisperquiet · 1 year ago
    Craptastic!!
  • former State employee · 1 year ago
    Sociopathic
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    GOLF

    (because all the other 4-letter words are already taken)

    or JANFU ("joint army-navy . . . ," as in everyone's involved)
  • Loyal Whig · 1 year ago
    Entertaining
  • schroedk · 1 year ago
    Derelict
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Olympic-worthy!
  • unclesam · 1 year ago
    "Aristocrats!"
  • Mr. Cub · 1 year ago
    SNAFU
  • If It Walks Like a Duck... · 1 year ago
    "Kakistrocracy"

    PS To unnclesam - Too funny
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Clan-tastic!
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Please note that's clan-tastic! with a 'c' not a 'k'.
  • Nate · 1 year ago
    broken
  • BannedForLife · 1 year ago
    nepotism
  • Blackjack · 1 year ago
    Swordfight
  • decaturvoter · 1 year ago
    Chicago
  • Ambush Bug · 1 year ago
    Unvictorious!
  • JonShibleyFan · 1 year ago
    Krausened.
  • SO ILL · 1 year ago
    Snark-tastical
  • phocion · 1 year ago
    Priapismatic
  • Freya · 1 year ago
    Oz
  • jerry 101 · 1 year ago
    bush-esque.
  • Gus Bode · 1 year ago
    ummmmmm
  • Joe D's Cousin Ralph · 1 year ago
    It depends on whether the person is prepared to hear the truth.
  • He Gone · 1 year ago
    Cracky
  • K to the 3 · 1 year ago
    raunchy
  • One of the 35 · 1 year ago
    Hedonism
  • Justice · 1 year ago
    Tenacious
  • Arthur Andersen · 1 year ago
    Felonious.
  • The Guild of Calamitous Intent · 1 year ago
    Cromulent
  • Bill S. Preston, Esq. · 1 year ago
    Cacophonic.

    For those of you who are less poetic and fans of crudeness (a la JJS): Craptacular.
  • Yellow Dog Democrat · 1 year ago
    Schadenfreude. Because as much as we complain, lets admit we all kind of enjoy watching the train wreck.
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    Bellicose
  • Belle · 1 year ago
    Dim-controlled
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    Yellowdog - I think you hit the proverbial nail on the head!
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    cookoosnest?(as in One Flew Over...)
  • Say WHAT? · 1 year ago
    Divisive
  • Lee · 1 year ago
    Snafu
  • Irish · 1 year ago
    Whosfacewouldyoumostliketoseeonamilkcarton
  • Futbol Guy · 1 year ago
    Narcissistic
  • Anon · 1 year ago
    UNsupercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
  • Bandoleer · 1 year ago
    Great Theatre ( I know. Two words. So sue me)
  • KGB · 1 year ago
    Stoopid
  • I want to sleep · 1 year ago
    Torporific.
  • Mr. Jones · 1 year ago
    Apathy!
  • Vote Quimby! · 1 year ago
    Pathetic.
  • A little bingo · 1 year ago
    Nihilistic
  • Please · 1 year ago
    Quimby, pathetic has been used. So has Chicago -- several times.

    How about:

    Just-shoot-me.

    or

    Liquor-is-quicker.
  • BLAGO BABE · 1 year ago
    Criminal
  • trafficmatt · 1 year ago
    Discombobulated
  • tunes · 1 year ago
    ignorant
  • anon · 1 year ago
    or maybe . . . E.D.
  • RightGirl · 1 year ago
    MajorityDem
  • Reality Check · 1 year ago
    Corruption
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    crackheaded
  • Ultra50k · 1 year ago
    Probably nothing...as their mouth would drop to the floor breaking their jaw.
  • downstate Dem · 1 year ago
    Dumbified
  • Boone Logan Square · 1 year ago
    Clout.
  • Marco · 1 year ago
    Dopey.
  • god love us all · 1 year ago
    Toss up between:

    Horse(bleep)

    Lovethoseidiotictaxpayers
  • anonymous · 1 year ago
    DEMOCRATS
  • Arthur Andersen · 1 year ago
    Demolicious.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    Intriguing.
  • emmejo · 1 year ago
    Payback. Is that one word??
  • David · 1 year ago
    Corruptacular
  • Jake from Elwood · 1 year ago
    gnarled
  • Ahem · 1 year ago
    Bedusked.
  • freelance editor · 1 year ago
    rauschless :(
  • Smitty Irving · 1 year ago
    Kafkaesque
  • jr · 1 year ago
    smokey
  • steve schnorf · 1 year ago
    I agree with "complex", but it has already been used, so "byzantine", as in its meaning of of "extremely complex"
  • steve schnorf · 1 year ago
    And "intense" or "hardball"
  • Silent Majority · 1 year ago
    Whereismine
  • Disgusted · 1 year ago
    Disgusting!!!
  • Jack · 1 year ago
    Socialist
  • Jack · 1 year ago
    Or to use Jesse Jackson's favorite word:

    Nuts
  • ELVIS FOR GOV · 1 year ago
    CAPONE
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    RICO
  • Arthur Andersen · 1 year ago
    Turdulent.
  • there he goes again · 1 year ago
    notpolicydriven
  • Heartless Libertarian · 1 year ago
    Hackneyed
  • Sweet Polly Purebred · 1 year ago
    Insane-to-the-membrane
  • Captain America · 1 year ago
    Illinois ia "not-a-'good-government'-State."

    This is what I tell newcomers when I register them to vote