The Big 0

As in "number of jobs generated in August":

No new net jobs were created in August according to Labor Department figures and the jobless rate remained the same at 9.1%.

At the same time a new Fox News polls showed three out of every five voters say they are disappointed with Obama's handling of the jobs issue.

Republicans immediately jumped on the August figures, the first time since the end of World War II that no new jobs were created in a month. The president, though, made no comment as he helicoptered out of Washington for a Labor Day weekend at Camp David.

"Today's disappointing unemployment report is further proof that President Obama has failed," presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a statement released just minutes after the figures were released.

And there you have the Obamidency in a nutshell: Policies that destroy jobs, lay waste to liberty and prosperity, and their architect, after a long, grueling vacation at Martha's Vineyard and a hard work week of childish partisan jackassery, knocks off early for a long holiday weekend to savor a "wrenchingly transformative" job of destructive sabotage well done.

Kinda raises the bar for his promised economic Red Sea-parting even higher than he has already, huh?  Pity for him that he utterly lacks the humility and strength of character and willingness to, yes, put country above party and ideology to offer this speech.  That could address the nation's Obamanomic crisis and the only crisis he gives a rat's ass about - his vanishing chances for a second term - at the same time.

Instead, we'll get more of the same crapola:

At a Thursday press briefing, made before the figures were released, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama's speech comes at a "an important moment for the American people who are demanding that Washington put an end to the gridlock and bickering that has paralyzed the process here and take action to help the economy, to create jobs, to help them."

"Gridlock" and "bickering" being defined as "refusal to bow down and worship me and obey my every divine commandment."  Seems to me it was the American people who elected a Republican House specifically to "paralyze" The One's relentless march of the nation towards bankruptcy and economic ruin.  Now we get to watch him whine about it before a joint session of Congress.

Unless you're ready for some football.  Or Man vs. Food reruns.  Or reorganizing your toenail clippings collection.  It's amazing how many leisure options are available when you don't have a job sucking up all your spare time.