Quinn is an idiot. His presence in Illinois and the decisions he has made up to this point, will be the biggest help to Scott Walker win his recall election next month in Wisconsin.

The unions and the DNC can spend all the money they want up there, but Wisconsin people are mostly pragmatic (except for those in Madison) and only need to look to their neighbor to the south to see how different things could be. And not for the better.

Agree
IL land of run away govt costs and mismanaged pensions

The chickens have finally come home to roost for fically irresponsible Democrats!

While I think Quinn has done nothing positive to get IL finances in order... It will take both rep's and dem's working together to solve his mess and there isn't much time.

Illinois is the "Greece" of the US...

Tell me how you work together with a guy who owes his election to the public unions who funded his campaign? Do you really think his efforts are sincere?

dan, Don, Joe, Mike and McCloudsmom could not have said it better! Ditto...ditto..ditto!

those on the left side of the aisle talk about 'austerity' as though it is a dirty word... pundits like Paul Krugman of the NYT say "we need to spend more money! look at Europe and see how austerity measures are failing!"

Krugman is the dumbest smart guy around. Did anyone say that cutting spending and cutting programs was going to be fun? No. this is going to be painful.. it's going to make life uncomfortable for all of us. But this is what adults do. They make the tough decisions and suck it up...for the betterment of our grandchildren and hopefully their grandchildren.

Guys like Krugman want things to be comfortable NOW. Sorry, but that train has left the station..the entitlement programs, the fat public employee penisons.. allowing millions and millions of illegals to leech off the gov't. It's all gotta stop.

one more thing. i don't know if the cartoonist reads the comments, but Blago has brown hair. if you are going to draw him as he is in jail, draw him bent over and with his natural color hair. some people thought it was gonna be grey, but his lawyer visited him and said it's all brown.

You are all republicons right? anyone with even slight illinois history knows the political parties both Dem and Rep have a share in corruption practices and represented officeholders in jail or who have been in jail! So why? The reason is that the 'people' allow it through their systemic support and acquiesance and holding on to ridiculous beliefs that a particular party is to blame! It is not the party people! It is the refusal of the 'people' to make demands of the public officials other than fixing their tickets, providing scholarships for well connected parties and other perks, paving the way for their self interests whether they are housing or shopping center projects or highways. Governor Quinn is not made of the same cloth as the Blagos or Ryans of our state. He is a better man. That is why he won't do well here.

Corruption aside, those in charge of the purse here in Illinois for the past, at least 15 years, are over spending - over taxing Democrats. The better man, in your opinion, has offered nada when it comes to addressing the ever increasing deficit, or increasing our business enviornment in IL. Or are you one of those who think that corporations are evil and need to be closed down with regulations and taxes. Your rhetoric shows lack of substance by initiating a slur, then reeling it in with nonsense, and ending with an empty statement about Quinn being a "better" man. Comparisons with felons would make almost anyone appear to be a better man.

Quinn is a f'ing moron. Lower income residents get what they deserve having voted in this joker. Residents in the upper income levels just adjust to a bit more coming out of their take home pay. Lower income residents struggle to pay utility bills and put fuel in their cars. When I do talk politics to people in the 40 to 70 k household income range and I can find out they voted for Quinn, it puts a smile on my face.

When are people going to realize, partician politics ONLY benefit the PARTY and the few people closely connected to it.....the rest of us be damned!!

Yes the cartoonist reads the comments and I appreciate all of yours. I cut Quinn some slack because for years he was a prominent advocate for consumes rights before finally scoring an elected position. As for the Blago hair, I took a bit of artistic license there keeping him in Elvis-Black. I also saw the news story about his brown-hair prison look. I depicted him in his most recognizable shade purposely to solidify the caricature... I rarely am happy with my caricatures so I use every arrow in the cartooning quiver. Thanks again, all of you, for taking time to write. (I agree most with Carol, by the way.)