And speaking of the good doctor (read: sociopathic convicted murderer), the Oakland Press asked for a bit of reader input on the whole Dr. Death for Congress story and, bad news Gary, some of your voters still really like him.

"I think that Dr. Kevorkian would be an ideal candidate in the congressional race," wrote Ashley L., of Clarkston. "His experiences thus far in his life, whether it being his education, his years of tireless service to the people of this state as a Doctor, or even him humanely helping to end the suffering of our nation's terminally ill, show that he is selfless, determined and will work for the people of this state to give us real change.

"I think his honesty and candor would be refreshing for Michigan. I have been a supporter of his for years, and I would definitely support his bid for congress!"

No way that can be good news for the former Lottery Commissioner.  Between the paroled serial killer stealing his votes and that pesky Dennis Lennox holding his feet to the fire up at CMU Peters may be wishing he'd never left that lotto office.

And one good turn deserves another.  While the Party gets good news in metro Detroit and the UP, the State gets good news from the Governor Granholm and her boy John Cherry.  They're going to announce today the "potential" creation of 3,000 jobs.   Maybe 3,000 jobs.  Who knows, really.  But they think they've created 3,000 jobs.  Now go ahead and guess how they did it.  I'll give  you three chances but you'll only need one...

That's right, TAX CUTS!  The Detroit Free Press reports that there are $47.7 million worth of them being used to "create" these fancy new jobs.

Now, on the one hand, it's great that the Granholm and Cherry have finally come around and understand that cutting taxes leads to higher employment (though that always calls into question their insistence last year on raising taxes by $2.5 BILLION while the State continues to struggle through a recession).  But there's this one pesky little portion of the announcement that could really drive a guy crazy:

Nearly half of the new jobs will come from the expansion of operations at North American Bancard Inc., a growing Troy-based provider of credit card processing services. It plans to move into a bigger office in Troy, adding 1,500 jobs to its current workforce of 214.

Michigan offered the company tax incentives worth $21.6 million over 12 years to stay in the state. It had considered a $6.5-million package from Florida.

Let's put that in plain English.  There's a Michigan company.  It wants to move.  It will incur millions of dollars in expenses if it does move.  It's willing to incur those expenses.  Florida offers a $6.5 million tax deal.  For Michigan to trump $6.5 million in tax breaks along with potentially seven figures worth of moving expenses we had to give them $21.6 million!  That's more than THREE TIMES the cash Florida offered.

And we're their home State!  Boys and girls, that sort of deal wouldn't look good if you were still wearing those green-beer-goggles from last night.  And I have the sense that some of you still may be.

So mad props to the Granholm / Cherry / Dillon / Schauer leadership team for so badly screwing up Michigan's economy that we have to more than triple other state's offers just to keep our own people from leaving.  Geez.  That seriously burns me up.  It's like we're the nerd at school who has to bribe people to show up to his birthday party and then gives away his presents to keep them from leaving to go kick the can down the street.  Or watch paint dry.  Or whatever else they wanted to do more than hang out with us.

Reminds me of that old unfunny playground joke... "you're so ugly your mama had to tie a steak around your neck to get the dog to play with you."

Pass the A-1.