A couple of sources indicate that Lansing's Channel 10 News will lead tonight's broadcast with the news that the United States Department of Treasury has slapped a $19,500 lien on the executive team's inaugural committee for failure to pay taxes.  That means that the same Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Michigan who last year told working moms and dads that they had to fork over an extra $1.5 billion currently refuse to pay nearly twenty-thousand dollars in federal taxes.  

A lien, boys and girls, is a big deal.  It means that the federal government can seize assets and come to collect the cash themselves, by force.  

No wonder Granholm and Cherry thought the government needed additional revenue.  They knew there was a gaping hole in the budget created by their own chronic and ongoing delinquency.  Though delinquency might be the wrong word.  That implies that they're going to eventually pay their back taxes.  The Granholm Cherry Inaugural Committee hasn't really had any parties to plan for the last few years.  If they couldn't be bothered to pay their taxes to this point why on earth would they start now?  (Though something tells me this story might provide just the kick in the pants the feds need to collect what the duo owes.)

This is the same Gov and LG who rammed a record shattering tax hike through the legislature last year, whose taxpayer funded budgets have increased by billions of dollars since 2002 and who are currently entrusted with the responsibility to budget and spend forty-three billion dollars this year alone.  Tax dollars.  Tax dollars normal folks paid to the government.  On time.  Apparently Granholm and Cherry have taken taxpayer funded paychecks so long they think that only the little people pay taxes.

Can't blame this one of John Engler, or the Chinese, or the Republicans, or President Bush, or NAFTA, CAFTA, the SHAFTA, the Cookie Monster, Big Foot... I'm sorry Madame Governor... Sasquatch...

But then again, this is the level of incompetence we've come to expect from the Granholm administration.  Well, ok, so maybe it's a few feet deeper into the incompetence pool than most of their typical mismanagement.

The biggest tax hikers in the history of the State... tax cheats.  Sorta sets a whole new standard for liberal hypocrisy doesn't it?