Employment Numbers Bite

May showed the least number of new jobs added in a long time, well below this administration's "easy to add at least a quarter million jobs" estimates.

Now, I noticed the media was always very fast to add that unemployment had slipped. However, the drop was minute and we've known for sometime that the Bushies pad these figures (something practiced by many administrations but never with the wild abandon of the Bush II crew) to eliminate anyone who's been on the unemployed list an embarrassing long period of time. Mind you, in the Bush years, many people who are unemployed - perhaps a good percentage of them - aren't counted at all because they are independent contractors, self-employed, etc. folks, including "can't get more than 10 hours at this Wal-Mart and 10 hours across town at Target" types who are deliberately not tracked.

If these numbers continue, Mr. Bush will be out to discuss another brave, new initiative: only allowing white Christian males to get jobs paying more than minimum wage.

Don't laugh. I'm serious. Think of how many times you were sure something couldn't be defiled by this crew only to have them exceed all possible worst case scenarios.