The governor of Illinois, a.k.a. Big Government Rauner, decided to throw a childish tantrum and let the state start a new fiscal year on July 1 without any budget at all.
If anybody deserves to get flak for his incapacity for bipartisan cooperation it’s Rauner. He just won’t negotiate with the state’s House of Representatives at all. Rauner is acting in an extremely tyrannical way, he is disregarding the democratic process, and is refusing to take any action at all to resolve the issue.
The state’s Supreme Court rejected Rauner’s pension reform. The House demonstrated why his budget is untenable and impractical. So Rauner got all pouty and decided to throw a tantrum and just not disburse any money to any state institutions in Illinois.
I swear, I’m yet to see a lazier, more disorganized, more overemotional politician with a shorter attention span. Rauner seems to have thought that a state could be run like a business: you give and order and everybody jumps to attention. But that’s simply not how democracy works. There are elected representatives, the courts, the voters, and you can’t just lord it over everybody all the time. Just a few months after getting elected, Rauner has run the state into a ditch and is doing nothing but throwing fits over the whole sorry mess.
If there are people around here who voted for Rauner (which I don’t believe because they’d have to be functionally illiterate), can you tell me what you were thinking when you saddled us with this corrupt, unstable freak?
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Other than on this blog, where else is he known as “Big Government Rauner”?
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Do you watch Shark Tank? There is this character called Kevin on the show. When he first referred to himself as “Mr Wonderful”, everybody laughed because he’s a total jerk. But he kept doing it, and now everybody calls him Mr Wonderful completely seriously.
So to answer your question, Rauner isn’t commonly known as Big Government Rauner just yet. But when enough people pick it up, he will. So the next time you mention him, make sure you refer to him as “Big Government Rauner.” We need to make sure he doesn’t get reelected.
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That’s very manipulative.
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Welcome to the political process.
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Rauner, Walker, Brownback, LePage…
Why have so many people been so enthusiastic about voting for governors who deliberately sabotage their state. And it’s not as though it’s been a one time fluke. These folks have been elected 2 or, in Walker’s case, even 3 times.
I’m tempted to go with the “everything in US politics boils down to racism” explanation. White voters have decided that if they have to share any of the upsides of a functioning society with people with darker skin than theirs then they’d rather just tear it all down.
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I’ve been asking people why they voted for Rauner. The responses are invariably:
He is against “big government” [ because he says he is. No actual proof is being sought after.]
He ran a successful business, so it must follow that he will run the state successfully [ no recognition that the state is supposed to be run democratically while a business isn’t.]
Democrats are corrupt [ it’s like saying “dogs have tails, so cats cannot possibly have tails. They are all corrupt. But nobody like Rauner who is simply shameless.]
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We used to have this problem with Republican governors in California and the /3rds vote requirement for budget passage in our Constitution on an almost yearly basis. Thankfully, Prop 187 and Ahnuld the Governator made Republicans irrelevant in recent times, why we’ve even raised taxes and watched our economy grow in recent years. If we can just get through the Drought now………
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