Newspaper are dying the slowest death in the history of history. They've been dying since the invention of radio. Newspapers were huge, the only source of current info. Then the radio, and they were dying; then the tv, and they were dying; now the internet, and they're mortally wounded for sure. It's change, bigtime, and what the final outcome will be is anyone's guess. But you can probably be confident that there will still be a place for journalists and editors, just where is hard to say. 

All I can say is that anything that puts the dipshit cartoonist Higgins out of work is fine with me.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/26/budget/index.html

The GOP didn't produce a budget! But here we see the plutocratic press ballyhooing the budget that isn't. 

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/house-gop-unveils-its-budget-shiny-packet-of-goals.php

The GOP unveils it's non-budget! Breath-taking. They must be thinking what I am: with the stock market ticking upward and houses starting to sell, a recovery seems to be underway. And the stimulus package proper really hasn't started to flow into the larger economy yet.

What with the disastrous electoral results of the last two electoral cycles, if Obama succeeds in turning this economy around in any kind of reasonable timeframe, the GOP is toast.

Will we see RICO prosecutions? When looking at the transgressions of these various moral midgets, is Eric Holder going to step up and take these vapid fools down?

Jon Stewart superman!

Job creation: GOP vs adults

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/23/153449/938/834/700890

Saint Ike was really pretty poor, wasn't he? I'd heard that things were shit during his time in office, and my god ain't it so. GOP just fucking stinks.

WRT the current economy, we do have one big break. The original crash of the great depression occurred in 1929, and Hoover was in charge until the bottom in 1933. So the economy dropped like a lead sinker for those four years. 

In this case, we have a good liberal on the job relatively early on, though it would have been better to have some adults in charge last year. So look for things to begin to display signs of life later in the year, and then probably sputter through most of next year as well. Hopefully the economy will be moving later in the year of 2010. 

Also we have to remember that in a sense the economy is already getting a certain degree of stimulus from the price of gas. It's almost like a self-regulating mechanism at this point with the world still depending on fossil fuels. As the economy surges, the price of energy surges with it and drags things down somewhat; when the economy lags, the price of energy declines and serves to bring things back.