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Buck Turgidson — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:54:29 -0000

Aaah, Broken Heart.

T'was nothing. But I humbly accept your compliments. ;-)

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Squideshi — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:39:53 -0000

Lee News Service is reporting that leaders of the Illinois Green Party think that this bickering will only improve the party's position in the 2008.

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Gregor — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:01:16 -0000

John R., not as funny as the overrides afterwards. You can smell the desperation from the Blago camp as the month runs out. When it does, the great and most public bulk of the blame and infamy will fall on this governor. He will be humiliated on a national level. He's spending more time right now trying to position his PR machine to counter THAT, than on actual budget negotiations. You have only to listen to and read his PR flak's output to confirm it.

The meetings so far with his flacks have been all sales pitch and no facts. Heck, with all the powerpoint slides and multiple speakers he's lobbed at the leaders in those meetings, I'd not be surprised to find out they'd accidentally signed up for a time-share condo. A lot of high pressure salesmanship. But no FACTS, no sound plan to get us not only past the immediate crisis, but looking forward past that to the next several years.

I understand what the governor is doing; it is much more fun to camp out at the campaign headquarters than the governor's office. At campaign HQ, everybody blows complementary smoke up your skirt, you have hot and cold running yes men, the visitors bring you presents of cash. Everything you say is brilliant, your hair is perfect, you have six-pack abs and they all love you.

At the actual working office, everything you say is interpreted as idiotic, and is being taken down as possible evidence in your upcoming trial. Your hair is mocked, and you have six packs of subpoenas. So yeah, you can see why his attendance is spotty.

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Tom — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:53:36 -0000

JohnR, the scariest thing is that Blago is somehow still relevant.

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JohnR — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:05:01 -0000

For all those people who think a Governor is irrelevant -

I can't wait to see all of you up in arms when he takes out that "real big pen" and vetoes every last one of your bosses' bills.

That would be the real hoot.

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Cat — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:47:08 -0000

State agency honchos are putting out the word, FURLOUGHS, to get state employees riled....

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Tom — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:34:44 -0000

"Seth, do you really think your blog entry is a good idea?"

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word for today — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:13:03 -0000

Rebarbative.

Def: the style of the governor's press staff.

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A Citizen — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:09:49 -0000

Feasance, misfeasance, mal feasance, nonfeasance - Yep that's it!!

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Levois — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:03:42 -0000

Seth edited his story. I wonder what happened.

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Crush of reporters over nothin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:56 -0000

Maybe if the next time the fake governor came out to simply recite a prepared statement and walk off, all the media just turned on their heels en masse and went to wait in the Blue Room for a REAL press briefing instead, the situation would improve. It would at least be more comfortable waiting. But those media folks would never be able to cooperate together that well. Blago's people count on that. They want to control every aspect of the message and deny as much as possible any non-supportive coverage or unscripted queries. It's right out of the Karl Rove playbook.

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Father of mine (you gave me yo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:50:51 -0000

Just listened to Nix's sound bites, attacking Watson for saying it would be impractical to expect all the members to show up in Springfield on a Sunday that's also Father's Day. Especially when they don't yet have any other budget but Madigan's to vote on or discuss.

Why does Sheila Nix, and by extension, the actual governor she speaks for, hate fathers??? Are fathers unimportant to the Blagojevich administration? Isn't that a Neaderthal attitude for her to to have in this modern age?

You know, we got this hippie blogger's testimony posted here that the Governor was seen, not working, but playing at being a simple, caring Dad with HIS kids, (while his staff was apparently lying about his whereabouts and task at hand) while the rest of us ARE working, and his mouthpiece has the nerve to suggest the rest of us should all work this Sunday, when I bet SHE will not be sitting at her desk on the second floor or whatever on that day. That kinda sticks in my craw. Where do these people get off? I have never seen the like.

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Tom — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:47:07 -0000

Cermak Rd sez: "Blagojevich didnâ€™t choose to set up residence in Springfield."

He chose to be governor. Springfield is where state legislative business is conducted, and where the governor's mansion is. It's also the place where we have no budget, and a real leader should step in. If he wants to be the gov, then he must live in Springfield. He shouldn't make a plane fly two round trips a day to cater to His Royal Highness.

Ironically it was the Downstate Dems who elected Blago over Vallas in the '02 Primary. Think they regret their decision?

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A Citizen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:40:01 -0000

Does anyone want to venture a guess as to what he meant by "What's the rush" ?

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'Lainer — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:19 -0000

You mean the kind of bugs that are attracted by sloppy bookkeeping, oops, I mean housekeeping...

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Blue Dog — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:16:00 -0000

Just have a video conference.

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The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers P — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:11:05 -0000

Buck said...> Folks, Seth didnâ€™t just â€œseeâ€ Rod. He TOTALLY saw him. Like, gag me with a spoon.

Okay, that does it, Buck wins the best comment of the day award.

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A Citizen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:10:46 -0000

Lead (Madagin), Follow (Emil), or get the Heck out of the way (?) !

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Pancake Breakfast Shakedown — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:58:47 -0000

Anyone think that Walker's Pancake place was bugged?

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Loop Lady — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:58:25 -0000

Madigan is holding legislative school again...the Reps would love it if the Dems were so boneheaded as to sell the Lottery...this session is a seminar on how not to craft a budget...I guess it's not so great to have one party rule after all...Wake me up when it's over...ZZZZZZZ

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A Citizen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:51:53 -0000

Madigan has effectively and totally marginalized the Executive Branch - and the "president" is treading on very thin ice. The ONLY budget bill passed is the House's. Mr. Speaker reigns, the others are at this point simply footnotes.

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Leigh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:33:24 -0000

Maybe he is not worried about it being haunted so much as he may be worried about "bugs".

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'Lainer — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:30:24 -0000

De Vreise's point is well taken. I don't think downstaters object so much to Blago's keeping his family home in Chicago (Thompson did that too, if I recall) but to the ridiculous lengths to which he goes to avoid staying even a single night in the publicly-funded residence he's been provided. He acts as if it's haunted or something....

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Me — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:24:14 -0000

anon 7:54 pm: Yes, I find it shameful, but like the late Boss Tweed said, "What are ya gonna do about it?"

Sadly, most of the media's coverage is anemic at best. Where are the diggers, the truth-hunters?

That we take what we're being fed by this administration is pathetic. I say we stop eating the political spin-Spam.

Food fight, anyone?

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anon — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:54:43 -0000

I said this last week, the press needs to stop letting the Gov off the hook by interviewing Nix after the meetings. Doesn't anyone else find it shameful that the Gov can't even do his own Q&A's?