Amid all the grim talk during Thursday’s unveiling of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s budget proposal, a few rays of levity broke through.
Speaking before a joint session of the House and Senate appropriations committees, Emerson remarked that he sometimes had trouble reading from teleprompters and said he had scribbled down a few notes to help him through the inevitable questions from committee members.
On one hand, he joked, he had scribbled a talking point. On the other hand, he said, was scribbled “Are you serious?”
That evoked quite a bit of laughter – some hearty laughs from Democrats, some uneasy laughs from Republicans. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin drew much attention this week when she lambasted President Barack Obama during a Tea Party convention for reading from a teleprompter, even as she was reading crib notes scribbled on her hand.
That’s one way to lift Michigan spirits.
