Drolet expects to launch two to five legislative recalls soon but hasn't decided which lawmakers to target. The decision could rest on where in Michigan people are most willing to gather signatures, he said.

Activists also are considering a ballot drive to repeal the tax increases, possibly through either an initiative that would put the repeals before lawmakers to vote on, or through a ballot drive letting voters decide whether to reverse the changes by amending the state constitution. Either would need hundreds of thousands of valid signatures to get on the ballot.

Those other unnamed "activists?"  That's the business community, ladies and gentlemen.  It isn't just anonymous working moms and dads who're madder than hops that the Dems had the gall to swipe over a billion dollars out of the economy during a single-state depression.  Organizations like the Small Business Association of Michigan and the National Federation of Independent Businesses in Michigan have members coming out of the woodwork on this one and calling for a return to sanity.

No small task, after five years with Jennifer Granholm in the Governor's Mansion.

The big question everyone's asking in Lansing right now is "who's first?"  And then, of course, "who's next?"

Suppose we'll have to wait for Leon to answer that question.  

Meanwhile, the Detroit News answers a question none of us even dare ask at this point... not who's next, but what's next for Michigan's economy?

Hot on the heels of the Democrats tax hike, a set of measures that'll cost Michigan's auto industry $350 million, and a two-day UAW strike at General Motors, the union and Democrat task master is gearing up now for talks with Ford and Chrysler and as hard as it might be to believe, things are expected to potentially go LESS smoothly than they did with GM.

GM is shifting $50 billion in retiree health care costs to the union through a company-financed trust that would be controlled by the UAW. At Ford, negotiators are expected to push for a larger discount on its $21 billion obligation to retirees than the 70 percent level that GM agreed to put into a voluntary employees' beneficiary association, or VEBA, people close to the company said.

Ford also wants more restrictions placed on its jobs bank program, which continues to pay idled workers.

Ah, the jobs bank.  Lifeblood of big labor and bane of rational thought.

Let's pay people to sit in a room and watch daytime TV!  Alright!  I guess we shouldn't worry about them being bored, though.  When Leon's recalls start launching the Governor will make a couple phone calls and the union will sic it's thugs on the streets to work against Michigan families.  Not like they had anything else to do.