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| LANG: Harsh talk?!? |
What
if it comes true?
A
part of me wants to believe it’s political nonsense being spewed by a
Democratic partisan – which certainly is a role that Lou Lang plays within the
General Assembly.
HE
SAYS THE ‘over the top’ things too ridiculous for Illinois House Speaker
Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, to say.
But
we’re approaching the end of the fiscal year without a budget, which in and of
itself is a concept that once would have been unthinkable.
What
if we have a governor who buys into his political baloney of shaking up
government so much that he doesn’t care about the many services and functions
the state is supposed to perform, but isn’t right now because of the lack of a
specific spending plan dictating how state funds are to be spent?
To
me, it sounds downright irresponsible. Impeachable, almost. The kind of
negligence for which we ought to think of removing a person from office.
NOT
THAT I expect anyone to seriously lead an effort to impeach Bruce Rauner. In
the end, Rod Blagojevich got booted from office because he had an arrogant
attitude that caused the people who were supposed to be his political allies to
turn on him.
Whereas
while they might be somewhat embarrassed by their behavior, Republicans in the
General Assembly see Rauner’s actions as the only reason they have a voice in
these days of the veto-proof majorities that rule both the state Senate and
Illinois House of Representatives.
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| EDGAR: What would Jim have done? |
Nobody’s
going nowhere at least until the next statewide election cycle of 2018. Even
then, we might wind up with the same split. So I don’t see any change, and Lang’s
rant from an organized labor rally held in Springfield on Wednesday is
something that ought seriously be contemplated.
Still,
I am someone who came into following state legislative antics in the days of
Gov. Jim Edgar, who himself was the ultimate Springpatch-oriented geek. The
idea of not doing a budget is something he could have never envisioned – even though
his constant opposition to then-Mayor Richard M. Daley made him the original “Gov.
No.”
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