Economy

The Insane Notion of Steady Good News

Posted by JumpyPants

A lot of people ignore the news because they just hate being bummed out. But since President Obama's election (I urge you to say or write "President Obama" at least 10 times a day. It's medically proven to make you younger.), we have been getting an awful lot of good news along with the usual requisite Super Size of bad.

Here's the latest:

President Barack Obama's first public act in office Wednesday was to institute new limits on lobbyists in his White House and to freeze the salaries of high-paid aides, in a nod to the country's economic turmoil.

Question that must be asked to anyone considering voting GOP, despite the obviousness of the answer: why didn't a pay freeze and lobbyist limit happen a year ago, when the economic turds were being flung at the fan of our daily lives?