• 29 Oct 2009 at 5:30 PM

White House Will Not Be Told By The AP How Many Jobs The Stimulus Has Created

By Greg Michaels

White House.jpgGiven the promises made on the campaign trail, there are few issues the administration is more on the line for than jobs. So when the Associated Press claims the administration is, in some cases, vastly overestimating the number of jobs created (or saved) by the stimulus, the White House takes notice. They have contingency plans for minor crises like this one in which it clearly states for a given problem, X, the corrective action is Y. Ed DeSeve, a senior adviser to the president for Recovery Act implementation, probably knows this drill pretty well and shed some light on the situation by defining what the administration sees as X.

“This story draws misleading conclusions from a handful of examples. It looks at only a small portion of the data – an initial upload of data representing just two percent of Recovery Act spending – that was made publicly available before a full review of its accuracy could be done.”

Or was that Y?
White House slams AP story [Politico]

Comments (14)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    This post would be better if you photoshopped a for sale sign in front of the White House. Oh, and if someone else wrote it.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    GR8 PICTUER GRGG!

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    First sentence. Stopped reading right there.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM

    The flag is flying at half mast for this post.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM

    Greg -
    When you were little, I used a heated coat hanger to tattoo “douche” across your forehead. Keep this up and I will fire up that hanger again.
    You douche.
    Love,
    Mom

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    Greg, please feel free to use this douchy clipart going forward (royalty free):
    http://tinyurl.com/yf546zj

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:04 PM

    @6 Perfect! Thank you.
    Can you get rid of Greg now?
    –1

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    Greg -
    Ed DeSeve? Senior Presidential Advisor? Like Deceive? You are making this shit up. And you write like crap.
    Clifford Irving

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:29 PM

    Live in DC, unsure which organization sucks the bigger wet one, the White House or the Redskins. Actually, the Mayor is pretty bad, too. But at least he’s a local yokel. Good post!

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:49 PM

    Only I should be able to sell the White House.
    - Alicia Wetmore

  11. 11
    Posted by Joe Mac | October 29, 2009 at 6:51 PM

    @10 Amen.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | October 29, 2009 at 6:56 PM

    11,
    Crafty.

  13. 13
    Posted by merkin capital partners | October 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM

    People are going to start disappearing in the night. Barry is attacking edmunds dot fucking com this morning. What’s next? Consumer Reports?

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | October 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM

    @14
    We can only pray that Tyler Durden is among those who dissapears.

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