Includes “… They know the budget isn’t balanced, that it’s not “something Illinois can be proud of,” or that “congratulations are appropriate” or that any of the other platitudes they filled the media with are true. … The boasting about bipartisanship carried a special irony. … Illinois has gone backward, reverting to the don’t-scare-the-children strategy that has prevailed for years, resulting in nothing but delay, denial, extending and pretending.”