Snow in July

Wouldn't be any stranger than this:

Treasury Sec. Sees Recovery Coming Soon

U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow on Tuesday said he saw an economy on the brink of a much faster recovery.

"This economy is poised to take off. It's spring-loaded to go," Snow said during a CNBC interview on a bus tour of Wisconsin and Minnesota with Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.

The tour was to promote President Bush's economic agenda, including the latest $350 billion tax cut package, in the run-up to the 2004 election.

Rolling Thunder, it's not. And shouldn't these guys be back in Washington, trying to actually do something about the President's economic agenda, instead of taking the scenic route from Sheboygan to Duluth?
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Red Ink in States Beginning to Hurt Economic Recovery

Having already stripped the nation of a source of economic growth, the budget crises in California and in almost every other state are now beginning to drag down the national economy, prolonging the weak, jobless recovery, the latest budget numbers show.
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