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NBC's Chris Jansing demonstrated the need for federal grants among state governments. "An unprecedented 46 states now have budget deficits," she reckoned, as revenue from sales taxes and income taxes go down and demand for services increases: 34 states have announced layoffs; 28 are cutting education aid; 21 are reducing programs for the elderly and the disabled. CBS and ABC also assigned correspondents to cover state government stories--but they focused on personalities not budgets. ABC's John Berman saw the end of the Empire State "soap opera" as former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy was not named by Gov David Paterson to the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berman called it a "twisted he-said-she-said about why Kennedy bowed out of contention." Meet the new junior senator from New York: Kirsten Gillibrand. CBS' Dean Reynolds brought us Rod Blagojevich, the Governor of the Land of Lincoln, who has decided to boycott his own impeachment trial. He warned that only he stands between the people of Illinois and a "whopping huge tax increase" should he be removed from office. This is how he characterized the mood of frontier justice in the state's Senate: "Before we hang him let us give him a fair trial. Then we shall hang him."
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