The hits keep on coming.

Relentlessly...day after day, month after month, and now year after year we get pounded by horrific economic and geopolitical news.

If its not ever-increasing debt and deficits, it's spiraling home values...or an unprecedentedly bleak job market...or skyrocketing gas prices...or outrageous commodity cost spikes portending massive inflation...or mounting consumer pessimism...or a collapsing dollar...or major instability across the globe.

Forget about a light at the end; we can't even find the damn tunnel.

Interestingly, the guy who had all the answers during the 2008 campaign—at least the ones the media and his fawning acolytes wanted to hear—now wouldn't be competitive on Battle of the Jaywalk All Stars.

Somebody hasn't been in it this deep since Jacqueline Bisset jumped overboard in a white t-shirt back in 1977.  Hell, it's so bad that Barry is making Janet Napolitano look semi-competent.  Well, not really.

What's most amazing about the whole sorry and unnecessary mess is that there is absolutely no outcry from the mainstream media.  None.  Nada.

Imagine the list of policy disasters outlined above and a media that is anything less than apoplectic.  A near criminal abdication of responsibility, right?

Not surprisingly, I have a proposal.  It's called Biosphere 2012.  As a check on the mainstream media, a year prior to the election we place a dozen or so journalists in an artificial, closed environment with no independent access to the outside world or knowledge of who was elected.  Their only link will be the economic and geopolitical outcome data that represents the appropriately party-blinded policy prescriptions of the President and his administration.  The journalists will remain in the Biosphere for the balance of the campaign plus the length of the President's term in office.  They will write their stories based only upon the facts made available to them.

Crazy, huh?  Not any more so than a media complicit in attempting to cover up the biggest failure since Franz Berliner drove a huge gas-filled balloon into a large needle.

Oh the humanity!

Crap, I was just informed that there already is a large group of "journalists" cloistered in an artificial, closed environment...and they've been there for quite some time.  Apparently, it's called the New York Times.

Hmmm, maybe we can bring back the Pepsi Challenge, politics edition?

No blindfolds necessary.  The mainstream media hasn't been able to see for quite some time.