2 YEARS AND 22 MILLION TO GO

Over at Altercation, the rarely-annoying, almost-always right Nation man and author reminds us of some comments made recently by bestselling author and blockbuster movie star Al Franken:

Al Franken reminds us somewhere, I forget where, that the net job creation of BOTH Bush administrations is a grand total of ZERO. Six years, ZERO jobs. I suppose it’s all a coincidence. ZERO, by the way, is approximately TWENTY-TWO million fewer than the Clinton Administration created. Bush II has two years to catch up. Somehow I don’t think this rich person’s tax cut coupled with an unnecessary and unprovoked war is going to do the trick. (i think it was on Donahue -ed yeah, that's it!)

So let's see, 22 million jobs over 8 years, compared with 0 jobs over 6. According to the TFM Jobulator 3000, in order to catch up the Bush Administration needs to accelerate their rate of job creation to . . . well, shit, 11 million times infinity.

Well, uh, don't worry Dubya, at least you have that Laffer curve going for ya, right?

Good luck, it sure worked well the first time around. When the guy who invented supply-siding says it's a hoax, then you're probably up one-term creek.