But he's only about half right about the Democrats being to blame. Illinois has had Republican governors for 18 of the past 30 years — governors who've written budgets and owned veto pens. And although Democrats have held majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly for 20 of the past 30 years, members of both parties are clearly accountable for the cynically negligent stewardship that's forcing us to grope for polite synonyms for manure.