Rauner checks the Xenophobe box on his governing report card

First newbie Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner checked the 'union busting box' on Day One of his rookie year as Illinois governor. Then he checked the 'end prevailing wage box', in his effort, failed so far, to diminish middle class wages in Illinois. Then he checked the 'no budget box' which allowed him to check the 'reduce help for the needy box'. Not satisfied with checking off every possible box of bad governance, Rauner is using the Paris tragedy to check the 'Xenophobe box', joining 24 other GOP and one Democratic governors in calling for a halt to the reasonable and verified acceptance of Syrian refugees into the US. This opportunity is one box even Rauner didn't foresee having the pleasure of checking off in his urge to cover all the boxes of bad gubernatorial governance.

By checking those boxes, Governor Rauner has boxed himself in to the untenable position of a Freshman Governor scoring a hundred percent in failing to do the right thing.

Governor Rauner reminds me of he fabulously wealthy but harmful character Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'. Paraphrasing Fitzgerald, "He was a careless person, Bruce Rauner -- he smashed up Illinois then retreated back into his money or that vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept him together, and let other people clean up the mess he had made"