When Incoherence Strikes
Three senior administration munchkins, three wildly different estimates of jobs invented or imagined by the economic “stimulus” plan:
White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act.
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.”
Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”
Apparently, none of those three jobs required any math skills. Whatsoever.
It’s hard to hire good spin doctors these days.It’s even harder to believe anything coming out of the Emerald House these days. They can’t keep their lies straight anymore.
By leilani, January 24, 2010 @ 5:39 pm
Yeah, 787+ billion dollars in stimulus funds to “create jobs” and this President couldn’t manage to find a single qualified accountant anywhere to hire in his own White House?
In defense of Ms. Jarrett, her tally may have been off because she neglected to add in those millions of jobs added in the phantom Congressional Districts & imaginary zip codes recently created by the White House. I’d imagine it’s hard to keep proper books for that kind of stuff. Which column do you enter invisible numbers for expenditures that don’t exist?
No wonder they can’t keep their stories straight.
By martian, January 25, 2010 @ 2:08 pm
They can’t keep their lies straight anymore because there are just so darn many of them! And it gets worse because they tell them so much they actually start to believe them themselves. But they can’t let it go there either. Have you noticed they have a tendency to embellish their own lies?