Roll up your sleeves

Cook County Board vote today on overriding Stroger's veto of the sales tax rollback. Two Chicago Dem commissioners could torpedo the override by just not showing up. How typical. In Springfield, Gov. Mushy Quinn blusters without making substantive spending cuts or ensuring ethics reforms pass. Pass my budget OR ELSE. Sun Times. Tribune editorial:

Instead, many of the best and gutsiest budget proposals have come from The Civic Federation of Chicago, a group that doesn't even have a vote. Delve into its recent analysis and you'll find billions of dollars awaiting any politicians who worry less about their careers than about solving problems that were made in Springfield. Even as you and yours talk of raising taxes, why does no leader in the Statehouse explain why, for the last two decades, state government has been growing at twice the rate of inflation?

Governor, we see a state government that is a broken expression of the people's will. We see an unfixed legacy of scandal and corruption. We see legislative leaders telling us what reforms they want to adopt, rather than listening to what voters want.

Cut spending. No tax hikes. Stop the corruption.

Be responsible for once. That's what we have to do with our own budget. Everyone's tightening their belts. It's time for you "public servants" to do your part. Stop grandstanding and roll up your sleeves. We had enough of this stuff with Blago.

As for the Toddler, you're still toast no matter what. The only question is who you will take down with you. (Look out Dems--the Vallas poll.)