From today's White House Press Briefing comes the latest credibility gap. McClellan is on his heels because the press corps is beating him over the head with the economic numbers. And McClellan just said "The President isn't interested in crunching numbers..." and "we can debate the numbers all we want to" as if Bush was responsible for the raw data and as if this was some debate between two economists. It's not. Most economists agree that the economy isn't creating enough new jobs to sustain the current employment rate. We'd need to create at least 200,000 jobs each month to stay even. We're not even close.

The administration projected at least 300K new jobs a month. No one is even in that ballpark.

Now Scott's resorting to the "I already addressed this question" subterfuge. And he refuses to say the President stands by the CEA job projections, which are bogus, as everyone knows. All he has left is his wacky "let's extend the tax cuts" argument, which every reporter points out is what they said the last two times, with no major subsequent job growth.