And some good news, for a change

This morning the lead stories on the major networks' morning shows were as follows: CBS' The Early Show has an exclusive interview with the frighteningly Botoxed Vicki Iseman, who mysteriously disappeared last year after the New York Times published a report indicating that her relationship with John McCain was at the very least "inappropriate." Considering that McCain lost and everyone's forgotten about her, her reappearance at this time is baffling. Meanwhile, Today is leading with the vitally important story about Caylee Anthony's mother, and Good Morning America leads with whether Rhianna and Chris Brown are still together.

And you wonder why Not-Joe Not-a-Plumber is a Republican hero?

Meanwhile, CNN still has Rush Limbaugh's unhinged rant from CPAC in heavy rotation, and Pat Buchanan's head is exploding over on Morning Schmeggegge about Barack Obama's declared war on conservatism.

But amidst all the lunacy is a tidbit of good news, brought to us via Blue Girl:

(Washington, DC) The Vice President today commended the new owners of Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago window manufacturing plant that was shuttered late last year, resulting in the lay-off of its 250 union workers. Republic was purchased in bankruptcy court last week by Serious Materials, a California-based company that makes energy efficient windows. Serious Materials has announced plans to reopen the Republic factory and to eventually rehire all 250 of its laid-off workers at their former pay levels. Serious Materials said it purchased Republic because the Recovery Act will increase demand for its products.

"The reopening of this factory and the rehiring of these workers provide an excellent example of how the money in the Recovery Act is targeted to spur job creation quickly," said Vice President Biden. "These workers will not only earn a paycheck again; they will go back to work creating products that will benefit America's long-term economic future."

At the request of President Obama, Vice President Biden is overseeing the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, working with federal, state and local officials to ensure that money moves quickly and is spent appropriately so that the President's goal of saving or creating 3.5 million jobs is achieved.

"When Republic shut its doors in December, the jobs Illinois lost were not only good paying jobs, they were good for the environment too," said Senator Durbin. "Those are the very jobs we need to preserve in order to put our economy back on track. The economic recovery package has recreated a market for energy efficient materials that virtually disappeared as our economic crisis deepened. With $16 billion available for weatherization programs, companies like Republic will be able to reopen their doors and put people back to work."

Last Friday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy announced an historic partnership to streamline and better coordinate federal weatherization efforts to make it much easier for families to weatherize their homes and spur a new home energy efficiency industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs.

HUD and DOE have created a high level interagency task force to coordinate home weatherization efforts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and to leverage those funds to build a home energy efficiency industry in the U.S. that will: create or retain tens of thousands of jobs, lower energy costs of vulnerable low-income households, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. HUD and DOE will allocate $16 billion in economic recovery funds to retrofit existing homes.

If this is what war against conservatism looks like, I say bring it.