I wonder if the Governor knows he's having a tough time...

Rep. Lou Lang made a tirade against the governor as the General Assembly are in overtive session. Especially since over the weekend the governor called for a special session to settle the issue of pensions. However, it seems the governor can't play nice and is calling the one man who's standing in his way a "George Bush Republican". Mind you we're talking about all Democrats here, the man he called a GW Bush Republican is Democrat Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives Michael Madigan.

I wonder if the voters who voted for this governor anticipated this gridlock that we find the state in right now. Since he won't play nice and neither are the legislators in the General Assembly, there won't be much of a budget let alone a solution to the pensions.

Anyway let's allow Illinois Review to speak about Rep. Lang, and it makes the governor seem like a single-minded character...

A frustrated State Rep. Lou Lang, calling his fellow Chicago Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich "cowardly," reviewed with House members a conversation he had with Blagojevich at a recent Democratic House caucus.

"I'm not supposed to tell you this, but I asked the governor how we are supposed to negotiate a budget if he's taken everything off the table, and I got the same garbage," Lang said Saturday during an emotional House floor speech (as pictured here from State Journal-Register's latest photo gallery).

"He said to me, 'Rep. Lang, do you know that 1.4 million people in Illinois are without health care?"

"I said, I know, Governor, but how are you going to pay for it?" Lang said he asked.

"Representative, do you know there are 1.4 million people without health care in our state?" the governor replied again, Lang said.

After Lang asked once again how he was going to pay for it, the governor said "The GRT."

Lang said, "The GRT lost 107 to nothing, Governor!"

Again the Governor asked Lang if he knew that 1.4 million people in Illinois are without health care.

"I, for one, am fed up with it . . . I don't care what party he'is in!" Democrat Lang said. "The Governor should lead . . . or we should trample him and get the job done . . ."

If you're following this passionately can you not help but shake your head.