And that the latest foreclosure numbers are out and they don't look pretty for Michigan (what else is new).  The Detroit News is reporting that Michigan is 3rd nationally in foreclosure rate and as much as I'd like to call that progress (it's nice not to be ranked 1st all the time) the actual numbers are far too ugly for even a moral victory:

Throughout last year, 136,205 foreclosure notices were filed in the state, according to the report from RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based company that tracks such statistics. Those filings affected 87,210 homes, or 1.95 percent of all households.

The number of Michigan filings was 68.3 percent more than in 2006, and a whopping 282.2 percent higher than 2005. Nationally, foreclosures in 2007 were up 75 percent over 2006.

For all of 2007, Michigan ranked among the top states for the number of foreclosures. That reflected Michigan's one-state recession, marked by massive manufacturing job losses and the nation's highest unemployment rate, as well as a sharp rise in the number of subprime mortgages that went into default.

Two-hundred-eighty-two-plus percent more foreclosures than in 2005.  Now that's a job worthy of a Democrat cabinet position!  I read numbers like that and I'm tempted to take an entirely different approach to this Hillary / Jennifer BFF nonsense.  Take her.  Please.  Rescue us!  A Clinton White House might be the only hope before the rest of the State is razed to the ground.  Heaven knows the Democrats aren't doing anything to make a positive difference.  

But that's not to say they aren't working.  While Leon Drolet and the Michigan Taxpayers Association is helping coordinate citizen recall efforts of tax-hikers across the State the Michigan Democrat Party is getting into the recall game personally.  

They're spending donor cash to target House Minority Leader Craig DeRoche.  According to the Associated Press:

The stated reason on the DeRoche recall petition is that he voted against bills that would make it easier to sue drug companies in Michigan. Dozens of lawmakers voted against those bills.

A DeRoche spokeswoman says it's the latest effort by Democrats to distract attention from tax increases made at a time families and businesses can least afford them.

If I were DeRoche I'd RUN on those claims if he ever seeks another go-round in Lansing.  He voted against bills that made it easier for ambulance chasing dial-a-lawyers to bankrupt Michigan's growing life science industry?  God bless him!  And thank you!

We're talking about protecting tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in the local economy.  The jobs of tomorrow or the blood-sucking lawyers?  Who do you think the voters are going to side with.

But DeRoche's spokeswoman is right.  This isn't a serious effort based on principal.  It's a serious effort based on political gamesmanship and an attempt to get even.  Mark Brewer breeds them vindictive over at MDP.  If my caucus had just foisted a $2.4 billion tax hike on struggling moms and dads across the State I'd try to change the subject too.