An official nominee for "Understatement of the Year" goes to the fish-wrap for their graph that reads, in part:

...The audit paints a disturbing picture of lax oversight that resulted in such absurdities as a killer receiving state approval for day care, and three inmates who were paid $3,730 for day care work while they were behind bars.

Apparently "Return to Oz" was a docu-drama and filmed here in Michigan.  (If you've seen it you know what I'm talking about.)

Then when you flip over to the Detroit News you learn that the Detroit Public Schools' $400 million-plus budget deficit might be growing because an entirely different audit says the adults screwed up a bunch of paperwork and the feds want their grants back.

The audit noted that Detroit Public Schools used Title I money for salaries, benefits and other personnel costs but did not adequately document those costs with time sheets showing the employees were working on activities that fall under the federal program.

In some cases, the district billed teachers' entire salaries to the federal program even though the teachers did not teach solely eligible children. In other cases, DPS provided examples of multiple employees' daily lesson plans or time logs but did not show how much time was spent on federally funded activities.

Auditors also criticized the Michigan Department of Education for poor oversight.

Audit after report after unemployment rate spike after sloppy coup attempts continue to batter Michigan Dems.  Better yet, voters appear to prefer solutions that stand in direct opposition to the quasi Democratic Party platform.  This state has defied national employment and job growth trends the last six years.  Could we defy national electoral trends this year?  Frankly it depends on whether or not conservatives take the rock and effectively pound it up the middle.  

Imagine the GOP is NFL running back Olandis Gary.  Gas prices and unending layoffs have created a crease and we just took the domestic drilling handoff.  Clean exchange.  So the question is, do we run the ball like Gary during his stint with the Detroit Lions, shucking and jiving and abandoning the daylight in front of us to look for something better on the outside (before almost certainly getting tackled for a loss) or do we run this thing like he did when he was in the Mile High City?  One cut and go, setting rushing records the entire way.

Look at the career stats, boys and girls.  You pound the rock.