CNN's Banfield: Traffic Jams Mean the Economy's Recovering

Last week, the media told us an increase in the unemployment rate and crash in GDP were both good news.

This week, with a record increase in gas prices strangling the poor and middle class, CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield just told America that traffic jams mean the economy is doing better.

In other CNN news: Every time someone struggles to get ketchup out of a bottle, a job is magically created. Whenever you can’t un-mate two shopping carts, one less person needs food stamps.

What is it about Barack Obama that makes grown men and women in media behave like 14 year-old girls at Backstreet Boys concert?