Jennifer Granholm

According to an article in the Detroit Free Press Jennifer Granholm wants to stay in Michigan and will not pursue a position in the Obama Administration. This is yet another good sign for Obama and the US.
The fact that she was in the running was quite disconcerting, and still is, because she obviously has a voice within the Obama Administration. However, if she stays in Michigan, maybe she won't be able to inflict the same damage on the entire US as easily as she did on her state.
Gov. Granholm's state has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country and the fifth-highest taxes, and she somehow thinks that if they raise the taxes, more jobs will be created. Michigan has the fifth-highest rate of foreclosure starts and the lowest rate of attracting new residents. Over the past decade, while the rest of the US economy was growing, Michigan's was declining with high rates of layoffs and taxes, and the state economy has lost about 300,000 jobs on Granholm's watch.
During a recent debate with Mit Romney on Meet the Press, Granholm tried to make the point that the reason the Big 3 can't compete is because foreign countries pay for healthcare and the US puts that on business. An interesting point, but moot being that the Big 3 can't compete with the cars being made by foreign companies inside the United States. I may not know everything about how the car industry works, but I'm pretty sure that Japan isn't subsidizing healthcare for workers in the United States, even if they do work for a Japanese company.
Then, on the radio this week, I heard her saying that she doesn't understand why the banks got a huge bailout with no strings and the car makers "have to come on bended knee." Again, Granholm proved that she just doesn't get it. How can she not look and see what happened with the banking bailout? She didn't see that the money was not used as intended? Did she not see the AIG execs taking spa weekends, etc.? How is it that she can't learn the what the rest of us did from the first round of bailouts? We don't want to give out another pile of money without a good plan in place.
No, Granholm staying in Michigan (or better yet, going back to Canada) is what's best for the country -- unless Obama is going to appoint a Secretary of What Not to Do.