The bad blood we've grown used to between Governor Granholm and Senate Republicans is for the moment, set aside.

"This allows me to go on the road and market Michigan," the governor smiles, as she talks about the legislature passing new Michigan Business Tax.

Her administration already has plans to use news of the MBT on another trip to recruit businesses out of state and overseas.

"We haven't announced where we're going but they'll be a trip, probably next month," Granholm says.

Epic-MRA's June poll says 66 percent of Michiganders rate the job the governor's doing as poor or fair. Granholm says those are people who want results--and she knows just one place to turn.

"All this depends on the legislature voting. They need to do their job," she says.

The business tax was one of four steps, she says, to fiscal health for the state. Cuts, new revenues, and reforms still need to be addressed.

She let legislators take this week as vacation without a fight, because they'll return next week to take on the other three.

"Every day we delay is a day we put economy recovery on hold," she says.

Also crucial to recovery, she says, upcoming negotiations between automakers and the UAW. She says both sides have to move.

The presidential election, one year after that, she hopes could be a foothole on the way up.

"Michigan needs a partner in the White House, not somebody whose gonna pull the rug out from underneath it," she says.