The Trib And The Guv Too Hot Not To Cool Down

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• The Trib thinks Governor Rauner is so dreamy.

Do you remember your first serious crush? You couldn’t think straight, and your tongue got so thick you could hardly get a sentence out without coughing and clearing your throat. It’s sort of the way the Tribune has sounded since it swooned over Bruce Rauner.

“They get, ahem, 13 paid holidays a year.”

It was an editorial that might have ended, “Take me.”

I know, I know, the whole world knows—the editorial page is simply too smitten to hear. But you talk a little sense today and a little sense tomorrow and eventually something sinks in.