Bad play; Quinnbowski exits stage left; Raunerfeller enters extreme stage right

It's only been 18 days but I sorely miss The Mighty Quinn. Since the Koch Brothers' dream candidate, Bruce Rauner, took the oath of office as Illinois' 42nd governor, we've experienced his 36% increase in administrative staff salaries, a new six figure administrator to keep wife Diana happy, hiring a Chief Financial Officer notorious for cutting Red State budgets hurting the needy, and telling fut...ure 1% er's at the University of Chicago Business School that Illinois' financial woes are all due to labor unions, state employees and Medicaid recipients. Rauner revels in the drastic flat tax cut that will mainly make his rich backers richer, promotes a sales tax increase that hurts the poor, and disdains a progressive income tax that could really alleviate Illinois' financial mess. Most disgusting of all is the $20 million slush fund he scarfed up since his election to bypass the media and legislature to promote his discredited austerity policies on the same gullible Illinoisans who elected him. Another Illinoisan, Abe Lincoln, said "You can't fool all of the people all of the time." The Rauner corollary is "With enough billionaire wealth, you can fool enough of the people enough of time." If Rauner's fraudulent play on Illinois citizens was on Broadway, it would already have closed. Hold onto your loved ones, folks. We've still got 1,442 days to go.