Dance party on the Illinois House floor! Here we have what appears to be state Rep. Mike Bost busting a hot move while his anxious-looking colleague in the white shirt …claps along to keep time? What fun! Someone sure is having a tough time waiting for summer vacation to start! Oh, just kidding. Politics is never fun. Rep. Bost is in the middle of an apoplectic temper tantrum over… pension reform, according to the news reports. Video after the jump!
Bost, a Republican, lost it after a lengthy bill proposing to shift the burden of teacher pension costs away from the state and onto local school districts was brought up for discussion by Democrat speaker of the House Michael Madigan only a few hours after it passed out of committee and before Mike Bost had time to read the bill. This seems like a fair complaint! This is also, shrieketh Mike Bost, procedural tyranny on an order not seen since the Egyptians rejected Moses’ petition for the freedom of the Israelites on the basis of some typos:
This guy is one match short of setting his own hair on fire. We take back what we said before. Politics is always fun. [CBS Chicago]
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Politics is always fun — except when you fear for your life due to a fellow legislator's freakout. There is a wide range of emotion on display in that photo, but none of it is fun-having.
I dunno, the half-chick in the blue at the top looks like she's playing Words With Friends…
I think that's "Swords With Friends," no?
I hope he doesn't have a concealed carry permit.
Well, the woman in the maroon shirt looks like she is just DYING to LHFAO…
It's only a matter of time before the morons escalate from bitchfits and fistfights to stone cold prison shankings.
There's something poetic about the juxtaposition of ol' Flaily McFlailArms against the backdrop of people not giving a fuck about any of it.
He tossed a sheaf of papers up and missed hitting them. Boy wouldn't survive a T-ball league…
Q – What's the difference between a Republican legislator freaking out in session and a four-year old freaking out at the grocery store?
A – People expect the kid's parents to do something about it.
Sadly, Screamy McFlaily is probably 100% right on the process issue, but, uh…
There's ways to convince people you're right, and there's ways to embarrass them for opposing you when they know you're right, and then there's impersonating Ted Nugent's nerd twin on a three-day crack/PCP bender.
I don't believe the folks around Rep. Emilio Lizardo don't give a fuck; when someone gets a case of the mental breakdowns and starts raging against the machine (or the internal voices), it's usually sound self-defense to just sit still, not speak or move, and hope he doesn't take extreme offense to your tie pattern or deodorant.
'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!'
Glad someone in that room does.
Not after birth it doesn't!
"be a human doing"
-Brad Goodman
"I'm a human going"
-El Barto
No wonder Obama had such a meteoric rise – he wanted to get the fuck out of that chamber.
Safe to say he's Bosted.
**takes off sunglasses in David Caruso fashion**
And people say passion is dead in politics.
Just ask Breitbart.
"Let my people go!"
Shhh, he's talking about the many voices in his head and not his constituents.
Needs moar crazy. Because yawn. And Illinois. Tantrum boy iz luvved up by the ladies for the men things he throws like papers and shiz. Look at 'em back there. They want his fruit loop. They does they do.
No, honey, they want him TO BE DECLARED a fruit loop. There's a difference.
*watching*
Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Madonna, Madonna, Madonna, Tharp!
…but all on the inside.
Well, see, now there's his problem!
Oh no. The last minute or so is definitely Duncan, Kitt, Kitt, Graham, Graham, Duncan, and then Tharp.
You sure? I see some D'Amboise in there. Especially in the head toss
He wouldn't know from Pearl Primus or Katherine Dunham, unless he's from over there by East St. Louis.
Say, you know who else made wild gesticulating arm and hand movements when speaking into a microphone?
Robin Williams?
WIN
Dick Vitale?
Benito Mussolini's boy friend?
Helen Keller?
That kid on Idol with Tourettes?
Michael J. Fox?
Flavor Flav?
PeeWee Herman? Oh, that wasn't a microphone.
Trace Beaulieu of Mystery Science Theater 3000?
Not David Bowie.
Nikita Khrushchev?
David Yow?
Jerry Lewis? Maybe that's why the French surrendered to him.
Nancy Reagan? (Oh. Was 'microphone' not a euphemism for penis in this case?)
Howard Cosell?
Joe Cocker?
Lewis Black?
Let my people blow. Tampa 2012
He's thinking hard about his Macarena right now.. Hammering shame into justifications, I bet…
I like the evident discomfort and/or amusement of those seated near to him.
It was Bost who went freakazoid and ate that guys face.
Hardworking dude, headed straight back to the office.
No doubt. Just getting a little face time with one of his constituents.
You did NOT. You did NOT just say that.
OMG.
Your linkies' got a great beat, KBJ, but I can't dance to them (they're borked).
I WANT SOMETHING DONE NOW!!1!
*stomps on floor, shake-it-like-a-salt-shaker, commences holy rolling as imagining Rep. Bost to do*
OK Google made it all better, fixt now.
SYSTEM MELTDOWN. (I think it is better now? Maybe. Or not. The Brave New Site Design is giving me sass.)
You *are* (Winning) the missing link, I perceive, now I can click it!
But MY provided link's (above) newspage Comment-subscribers were, um, more special-er:
uhhh…
…
YEAH!!!1!
Anyone else getting mildly irked by the broken linkies… the article headlines linking to the homepage, the pictures linking to below the fold not the top of the page (or to just the picture, in this case)… and here, the link through to CBS not working on account of it missing the leading "http://"?
Maybe the Editrix needs to put her subs in linky training for a while.
I recommend spankings.
Pics or GTFO.
JUST SO LONG AS THEY KEEP THE ALL CAPS HEADLINES THEY MAKE ME FEEL SO VERY RELAXED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD ASGRYGRHWUG@!!!
And as if by magic, my first and biggest gripe just vanished, along with the appearance of a sexy new masthead. Yay!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrawr!
Is that in any way like Doug's shout of "Legendary!" in Weeds?
More like….
I tink I just taw a puddy cat
I did! I did taw a puddy cat!
Legislator reminds me of God Warrior.
NSF… oh, fuck it. Just watch.
That woman is nuckin' futz.
Is it wrong of me to admit that I enjoy watching her go ballistic?
As an empathic former charismatic, I realize that her demons depend on a jesus to bail her fat ass our of her personal fuckups. That is, to answer your question honestly, man… I don't know which way to go on that one, dude (or dude-ette).
Dude. And I think it's wrong, but I LMFAO everytime she starts screaming "Dark-sided!" because it sounds like "Dork-sided" to me. Except I really don't like how scared and upset the little girl looks in that video clip. Just for that, I'd like to slap FatCrazyLady's fat crazy face a couple times.
I knew it was time for a Hammertime resurgence.
That's just the way I behave when I get to the liquor store five minutes after it's closed.
At least you have a good reason
He needs to be checked for rabies.
Are you going to wait for the labs?! CRAZY TALK
Just chain him to a tree, first.
Have you legislators spayed and neutered.
Please update us when he goes all Falling Down and lays his hands on a rocket launcher.
He seems like he might be one of those Internet Bullies that keep going after Meghan.
Back in the day, we called that "losing your shit."
This is begging for a "Double Rainbow II".
Now I'm wondering what kind of Bat Signal-esque light we shine to summon the Gregory Brothers.
YOU LIE!
The guy with the Blagovich hairdo does not seem amused.
OT & Breaking: Dan Rather reports that Hugo Chavez has entered the final stages of his cancer.
Since he's a hero to we libs….*rolling eyes*….thought you'd like to know.
Who's a hero? Hugo or Dan?
Time to remove the Red Bull from the vending machine.
And the methamphetamine, while we're at it.
He's got the moves like Jagger.
Which is a ridiculous song, since old Mick was never known for being a good dancer.
♫♫ He's got the moves like Hastert ♫♫
You mean the pouty-faced chicken strut isn't the best dance move, evah.
More like Joe Cocker.
CHICAGO-STYLE POLITICS, BABY!
OOOOOOOOH, I LOVES THE NEW MASTHEAD!!! EMINENTLY FAPPABLE.
Meeoooooow!
I've always wondered what it felt like to be pussywhipped. Yay!
Eartha Kitt or Julie Newmar, or, OMG, both! Gotta go!
Well, at least he's not bashing in someone's head with a cane. That hasn't happened in NC's legislature in at least two or three weeks.
HOLY REDESIGN BATMAN WHA HOPPENED TO THE WONKETT LOGO
I don't know whether I'm supposed to be turned on or freaked the eff out.
Not mutually exclusive.
What? It's still a picture of AMC right?
The guy who picks up and reads the papers Rep. McCrazy throws is American's Greatest Hero.
The guy is having an epic meltdown while everyone around him is falling asleep. Pretty sad when folks can't even be bothered to summon up a giggle.
Dunno, that gal in red behind him looks pretty amused.
Less "falling asleep," more "trying not to make eye contact."
Needz moar 'ludes. Lots more would seem, lots.
"Let my people go"
that phrase just never works, Moses, the Hooters, this guy …
fail
Meh. Should have laid a deuce on the podium.
That's a kickass new masthead. Nicely done.
Mike, I'm going to tell you the same thing I tell my 7 year old in the K-mart toy section: Look at your self, you're embarrassing your self. This tantrum makes you look stupid in front of all these people. You should feel the shame.
OMG!! THE NEW WONKETTE LOGO BANNER!!!
I find the new banner easy to masterbate to.
I want to fist that new logo until I lose a hand!
Rep. Bost's campaign song just happens to be the Ween classic "I'm Waving My Dick in the Wind"
Calm blue ocean… calm blue ocean…
I think I am at the wrong blog–you guys are funny and smart–I was looking for pleathered-feline-crimefighters.com
Well, big boy, tip us enough and….
Hey, you are in the right place. We are all just incognito. Oh, wait, did that give us away?
Who's "Cognito"?
Her pic's in the masthead.
I'm in! I'm allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll in…
I summer in Incognito…for the anonymity.
Incognito ergo summer.
I see a red font and I want to paint it black.
That. Is. Profound.
Spaztacular!
What the hell happened??! I go away for an hour or so, and everything changes!
Holy fetish, Batman!
Wow. The new Wonkette logo may raise a few eyebrows when the IT folks here go through the proxy server logs.
"proxy server logs" sounds erotic.
More scatological….
That'll make the coprophiles around here happy.
And yet, Bobby Rush wearing a hoodie in Congress while talking about Trayvon Martin is a breech of decorum.
My dad used to pull this kind of shit, when I wouldn't eat my peas or if I didn't put his tools away after using them.
If we watched too much TV (ignoring chores) mine would cut the power cord of the ole Zenith.
Having interned in the Illinois General Assembly, I'm going to take Bost's side. That is exactly the sort of thing Madigan has always done, enabled by state constitutional reforms of the 1970s that backfired.
yes.
Very NICE, Editrix! Hot-cha-cha!
I mean the site redesign, of course. On a purely professional level.
BRB.
Were those snits flying through the air?
Kitten with a whip!
That's not good for your blood pressure, you know.
Likely could be cited for littering too.
And who's gonna pay for a new microphone?
"I gotta figure out how to vote for my people!"
Yeah, right, like you don't do what your campaign contributors tell you to do…
You call this fun? Hell. What about the good old days when our guys in Washington would take out a cane and beat the living shit out of the guy sitting next to him?
Now that shit was fun?
He's just mad because he preferred the days that Lee Daniels and George Ryan told everyone how to vote in the Illinois House.
Editrix, can we post about fapping to the new logo?
When do we not post about fapping?
Can we please, please have new wonkette t shirts with that logo on them?
And low cut tank tops for the "Tits or GTFO" crowd…
was brought up for discussion by Democrat speaker of the House Michael Madigan
Please, Kirsten, this is important. Unless you're obviously speaking ironically, it is "Democratic speaker of the house". The use of "Democrat" as an adjective is a schoolyard-caliber insult that the Republicans seem committed to normalizing through repetition. We don't have to help them.
He was interviewed on WBEZ this afternoon. Totally frustrated with Mike Madigan (Blago'sfather in law) after they worked to a bi-partisan solution, Madigan tossed it and put his own plan out.
You can accuse Madigan of many things but being Blago's father-in-law is not one of them. That honor is reserved for Dick Mell a retired Chicago alderman. Mike is IL AG Lisa Madigan's father.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Some one needs a nap! I think Tory MP Claire Perry put it much better when she said, "Who do I have to blow to get recognized around here?"
God Damn fucking jackasses in the General Assembly. I swear, these assholes can't behave themselves for five fucking minutes. You'd think once they got a statewide reputation for regularly fistfighting like a bunch of degenerate junior high kids the'd grow up and act like adults.
I like how all the other pols look like they're waiting for the next bus to Shelbyville.
meh. that's pretty much exactly how michael madigan makes me feel.
here in IL – as you all know – our labels are broken. there is no 'democrat' or 'republican'. there is simply madigans, daleys and occasionally strogers.
they all make me stabby.
I always knew that St. Vitas Dance was ready to make a comeback.
You want to see a finely-crafted outburst of righteous indignation on The Youtube? Type in "Gretchen Whitmer." By comparison, this looks like some hairless ape flinging his poo. Ameteur.
He thinks that this is how you go about requesting a redress of a grievance? Dude needs to take Politics 101, again.
BTW, welcome to the world of Democrats, Bost. This is standard practice in Republican legislators. You just happen to be stuck in a state with a pretty unique machine. You want to get really mad? Come up here to Michigan where the legislative Republicans don't even bother with the rules, anymore. I'm not talking about clever technicalities, I'm talking totally not following their very own rules.
This dude needs a visit from Wonkette cat woman. And not in a good way.
Someone needs more FIBER in his diet!
Actually, pretty cool moves if you put music to it; say, Aretha's "Respect".
Aww, teh snorgfest of kawaii!
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