I've been Quinned and I've had enough.....

Have you had enough mister and misses citizen of Illinois? Have you had enough of Pat Quinn to properly legislate as Governor of a state that was once on solid ground financially under the blue flag of the GOP? A state, since it turned Democrat has been hemorrhaging red ink by the boat load. First it was Rob Blagojevich’s misguided initiatives and now its Pat Quinn’s Larry Fine like tenure and misguided moralism that have the state of Illinois running on fumes. I know, Mike Madigan has a hand in this too. I would agree. But if you flip that particular coin, all roads lead back to Pat Quinn as a politically weak leader who seems to have the innate to create chaos wherever he goes. And when he’s not creating chaos or helplessly trying to dig himself out of the hole he and the state are in ala Larry Fine in a Three Stooges short, he’s inflicting a mis guided sense of morality on a state that needs both strong leadership and or solutions in the worst way. In a time of financial crisis, Quinn refuses to give a potentially mutil billion dollar deal for a casino stall because, quote, “he’s afraid of the element it will attract.” Pat Quinn is the proud man, who, when offered a parachute, refuses to take it on principle. Except, the Casino deal wasn’t only a political parachute for Quinn himself. No, it was a parachute for the citizens of Illinois to finally see daylight in a tunnel full of flowing red ink. Funny thing, I always thought that governing was about making tough choices. According to Pat Quinn logic, your revenue streams, wherever they come from, won’t be feasible until they leave you with the ability to function with a clear conscience. It shouldn’t be the casino revenue that pokes at Quinn’s conscience. Rather it should be, the squandering of resources and the fact that he’d turn his back on the mentally ill than accept a revenue source, i.e. the Casino package, with unsavory layers. Mister Quinn, we don’t have time for morality. Your time is up. Your time was up when you proved that you were unable to unite your own party, fractured as it is, to simply do what it was supposed to do; legislate. Your political clock hit zero when you decided to give the citizens of Illinois the green light to arm themselves. This, in spite of the fact, that Quinn’s fellow Democrat, the current mayor of Chicago, refuses to restaff the Chicago Police force to an acceptable level. This is your time, Mister and Misses Illinois. Take back your state. Go to the ballot and start the dominos rolling by telling Governor Quinn that you’ve had enough. Or maybe it takes more day care centers for working families being slashed. Or maybe it takes more mental health services for the poor being jettisoned. Or maybe, mister and misses Illinois, it will take someone being gunned down in a bar or a restaurant to wake you from your slumber. As Sam Jackson said in “Pulp Fiction” “You want to play blind man, you go right ahead. My eyes are wide f****** open.”