Here’s the article that goes with the latest Dirk cartoon:

The recent news that Michigan’s economy is bringing in higher than expected tax revenues must strike Governor Snyder’s true believers as a little surprising. Ever since the last piece of confetti fell  at his inauguration, the governor has been hitting the state’s airwaves like some tweaked-out late night infomercial host, raging on about the perils of a cataclysmic budget crisis…

http://critical-moment.org/2011/07/05/austerity-pleasures-a-look-at-the-snyder-budget-crisis/