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Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Yesterday I suggested that if it wasn't love there was certainly something in the air.  After following everything that happened in the news yesterday I'm more convinced there was something going around in the atmosphere.  Maybe the water.  Or it could have been that "First Quarter" moon.  Because folks were acting a little bit off.

Nowhere were actions stranger than in Washington, D.C. where Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak made a statement and a demand that no Democrat in Lansing has found the nerve to make in years.  The Associated Press reports that the Congressman has his sites set on a federal department head because a specific failure on his watch led to several deaths.  Several deaths nationwide.  That means across the whole country.

A key House Democrat said Thursday that the head of the Food and Drug Administration should resign in the wake of a probe over an antibiotic and news of a blood thinner linked to allergic reactions and four deaths.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who heads an investigative panel that conducts oversight of the agency, said in an interview with The Associated Press that FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach should step down because "it's just a total lack of leadership."

Now contrast that with the behavior of Michigan Democrats, including Stupak, towards the former head of the Michigan Department of Human Services and the current crop of bureaucrats overseeing the department.  In this one state alone we've had more children killed under the watch of DHS than the United States of America saw fatalities from this one drug.

And there's nothing but silence from the Democrats in Lansing.  And worse, the lefty echo chamber has risen to the defense of the leaders who've failed these kids, they've blame shifted and they've passed the buck.  Worse, many of them have used fatal departmental failures to angle for tax hikes.

Stupak demands a resignation because "it's just a total lack of leadership."  Yet we have a larger problem in a smaller area right here in our own backyard and the Dem mantra remains "just give us more money!"  How about demanding results and maintaining accountability?  Novel idea.  I know.  Don't worry, I don't actually expect anyone on that side of the aisle to sprout a conscience overnight.

Just look out, Congressman.  If they hold to form Tom Casperson won't be the only person looking to move you on out of office.  You criticized the bureaucracy and the left just plain won't tolerate that.  You were supposed to call a press conference and to ask for an increase in spending for the FDA, not use that "L" word.  (No.  Not that one.  Leadership.)

And, Right Michigan reader, if you think that that's crazy... well, you don't know anything about crazy.  Not until you've visited the alien planet Congressman John Conyer's wife Monica lives on these days.  It's a magical realm where you can show up late to meetings, start wasting a groups time by talking about issues they'd discussed when you were off doing whatever else you were off doing and then if someone tells you to shut it you can just publicly threaten his life while attempting to physically assault him.

Oh, and the best part?  You can make these threats and then ask for protection from the U.S. Marshals because you didn't like being called a name.  The Detroit News reports:

According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers "threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun" and made "several aggressive movements" toward Milton "in a threatening manner."

Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would "have my brothers (mess) you up."

David Clark, chair of Detroit's General Retirement System, backed up Milton's account.

"She ran at him," Clark told The Detroit News. "She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whoop his a-- if she asked them..."

(Chief of Staff Sam) Riddle said he is recommending that Conyers, as the wife of a congressman, seek protection from the U.S. Marshals Service.

"We don't know who we can trust in the city of Detroit," Riddle said.

I had a bunch of friends in college who loved to watch sessions of the British Parliament.  Politics are a little bit different across the pond and things could get pretty heated.  Even by American standards.  But those Brits don't have a thing on the Detroit City Council.

Won't be long before we see a copy of this confrontation on "America's Wildest Videos."  Super slo-mo close-ups of Conyers charging Milton, heart racing music ramping up the intensity.  Gotta love Detroit City Government.  Sadly this sort of shoots my "something in the water" theory good and dead.  This is pretty much the norm for Monica Conyers.

But just when I thought I might have to reevaluate I remembered... the House and Senate actually got together yesterday and FINALLY got something done to enable legal immigrants to obtain drivers licenses here in Michigan.  You'll remember that recent efforts had seen Democrat road blocks tossed in the way as they attempted to derail the legislation.  

Intransigence on the part of Lansing's ruling Party led to a lawsuit by the ACLU, exasperation from local residents unable to drive and the clamoring of social service organizations.  The Lansing State Journal reports:

The Michigan Catholic Conference called Thursday's vote the approval of "common sense legislation." The agency had been concerned about the effects of the policy on foreign born priests that have come to Michigan and for refugees who have legally entered the U.S.

Illegal immigrants still would be unable to get licenses under terms of Michigan's revamped policy.

So technically it is possible to get Democrats to come around on an issue and to vote with Republicans on legitimately important "bipartisan" legislation.  All of a sudden.  See?  Something in the water.