"Why do an exercise in fertility?" (Cook County Board Commissioner Todd Stroger)

[dem629]

Thrown to the political wolves by the all-powerful Daley family, embattled County Board President Todd Stroger said Wednesday he may not veto a surprise sales tax repeal after all.

During a live interview with Don Wade and Roma on WLS-AM Radio, Stroger made it clear he was rethinking his emphatic veto threat.

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"Why do an exercise in fertility? If they don’t really care about what happens — if they don’t think they need the money, then say nothing and we’ll just let it happen," Stroger said.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1560810,stroger-cook-county-sales-tax-repeal-050609.article

:rofl:

I love it when people are trying to use a certain phrase or word and have no idea what they're saying. This is what happens when you try to sound smarter than you are.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. For all intensive purposes, I agree with you.

[dem629]

2. I will not take your reply for granite!

[Ilsa]

7. I believe it's spelled "porpoises". nt

[DJ13]

3. Does he look like this?

[lapfog_1]

4. Well, it IS May and there are some leftover easter eggs

and bunny rabbits and this Maypole thing that all the virgin girls dance around.

So let's not misunderestimate the need for fertility symbols.

[Occam Bandage]

5. That's a mute point, unless you expect everyone to just tow the line

that English teachers set. Irregardless of what you mean to infer to others when you write in a fit of peak, you know the English Nazi's are always pouring over whatever you write, just waiting with baited breath to literally come down on you in one foul swoop, reek havoc on your sentences, and try to reign in your sense of self of steam.

[dem629]

10. LOL

[appal_jack]

12. awesome, occam

But you messed up: it's "rain in your sense of self of steam," ya see, 'cuz the rain cools the steam off, and then you're just all wet.

:P

-app

[aquart]

6. Ever get the feeling the brain has things alphabetized?

And sometimes it doesn't scroll far enough down the list?

Myself, I can NEVER think of "cilantro" unless I go all the way down to "citronella" and come back up.

[Robbien]

8. Stroger was going against the Chicago Chamber of Commerce

who are Daley's best buds.

Daley walks out of a meeting with the CoC and makes it pretty clear that the tax should be repealed. It is a wonder Stroger was able to get any words out at all. He's on his own now and in this city that is not a good place to be.

[sam sarrha]

9. hmmmm .. i might be into an exercise in fertility, ..

[dugaresa]

11. An Archie Bunkerism if there ever was.

[Raskolnik]

13. Todd Stroger is one of the most venal, incompetent, and just plain stupid people

I have ever encountered.

He is a bad joke on Chicago.