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Opening Arguments

My report to you

Somehow, I let this get by me last week. I very pleased with the progress of the Daniels administration, as graded by Gov. Daniels himself in the latest of his six-months report cards:

Roughly 64 percent of the measured categories were defined in the report as needing improvement or unsatisfactory during the first six months of this year, compared with 73 percent in the previous six months. The report covering Daniels' first six months in office in 2005 rated 87 percent in those areas.

87 percent to 73 percent to 64 percent -- now, that's steady progress; I feel free to predict only half the categories will need improvement in the next grading period. Pat Bauer is being his usual negative self when he complains that the governor's report card is "like making your own movie and then being your own critic."

In fact, I'm so impressed with the governor's idea that I've decided to issue a report card on the progress of this blog:

Topics selected to post on: Went from a B to a B+ in the grading period. Quality of the writing: From a B+ to an A-. Quality of the thinking behind the enterprise: Steady at an A. Quality of my enemies -- my most vocal critics out there in the blogosphere right now are two liberals, one conservative and a space alien, so, pretty steady there, too. The only area where there could be noticeable progress is in the number of commenters taking the time to note the wonderful job being done here. Perhaps this will encourage them, as I'm sure the governor's report card has increased the number of supporters for Indiana government.

Comments

Jeff Pruitt
Tue, 09/12/2006 - 3:14pm

I would grade your post a C. But that's up from your average of C-

Keep up the good work Leo...

Laura
Wed, 09/13/2006 - 4:29am

Overall I think Daniels is doing a good job. I didn't vote for him and I don't normally vote Republican however I do vote for whoever is best be that candidate Republican. One concern I have is all of the jobs that are coming to Indiana but not Fort Wayne. Yes, trickles of 100-150 jobs here and there. But nothing like the thousand for the Honda Plant, or hundreds for Biomet in Warsaw or the new Shoe Carnival warehouse in Anderson. Whenever I e-mail his office I get a response. When I raised concerns about the lack of jobs coming to Ft Wayne, I got a call from the Economic Development office. I was told they can do all they can to get jobs here but it ultimately is up to the employer to locate where they want. Daniels has balanced the budget and voters have to give him credit for that. They are trying to clean up the welfare rolls, cut property taxes and do alot of other good things.

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