Tag: President Obama

No, wait, scratch that.  Too much access for the average Michigander. Change of plans from the White House.

Breaking!  Breaking!  President Obama is going to visit Macomb County today and will be holding an open forum where Michigan moms and dads, while not permitted to speak, will have a chance to attend and hear what the President has to say in person.

Nah.  White House thinks that, too, amounts to too much face time with normal folks.  Try this one...

Breaking!  Breaking!  President Obama is going to visit Macomb County today and will hold a glorified press conference in front of a sycophantic press corps and select invite-only Democratic Party big-wigs?

There's the ticket.  And the only ticket.  No duckets for Michigan's working or unemployed.  Which is a shame.  Even if he isn't inclined to speak to us "normal folks," there's a lot the average Michigander could and very likely would communicate to the man who has injected the federal deficit with anabolic steroids.

Read on...

Not that I should have reacted that way.  I've been saying for years that you could run Jennifer Granholm against the Pope in the Vatican and she'd come out on top.  This poll only seems to back up my belief that for some reason that defies my own understanding, with a certain portion of the population she can literally do no wrong.

Or then again, maybe I was wrong.  The poll of 600 registered voters (typically a more "liberal" sampling than "likely voters") want the Governor in DC, 51 to 44 but they also give her a negative job performance rating, and by more significant numbers, 61 to 38.

In other words, there's a good chunk of the surveyed public that's OK with moving Jennifer Granholm off to the Supreme Court because it would get her the heck out of Michigan.  Short sighted (we've got less than two years left with the woman... I wouldn't trade two years of moderate relief for forty of agony), but I get where they're coming from.

Things are only getting uglier under Jennifer Granholm's watch.  Soaring taxes, a great lake sized budget deficit and a nation's worst 12.9 percent unemployment rate have left a pretty bitter taste in the mouths of a lot of folks.  But stir those crises together in a pot, sprinkle in a dollop or fifty-six-thousand of judicial inexperience and a heaping helping of IRS problems in the form of multiple liens for failing to pay her payroll taxes and suddenly a Granholm SCOTUS nod makes even less sense.  

There's no telling, just yet, which, if any of those red flags ended her candidacy but a liberal source no less venerable than the New York Times reports now that the White House's flirtation with Governor Granholm IS over:

The president has narrowed his list to four, according to people close to the White House -- two federal appeals judges, Sonia Sotomayor of New York and Diane P. Wood of Chicago, and two members of his administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

And so just that suddenly 51 percent of Michiganders are left disappointed and heartbroken.  But look at it this way... our loss is the Supreme Court's gain.

No Illinois state agency can spend stimulus money without the state legislature's approval, the bill says, until a certain "Rod R. Blagojevich no longer holds the office of Governor of the State of Illinois."

At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.

"not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office"?  To whom are you referring, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, George W. Bush?  A truthful statement would have been that America has carried on in spite of  those in high office.  As far as I can tell there has only been one good president in the last 100+ years.

"We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents."