I wonder how many Congresspersons will be finalizing their fantasy football teams on their BlackBerries during Obama’s jobs speech. Whatever the President proposes is likely to be modest and likely to garner scant GOP support. Republicans might go along with an extension of the payroll tax cut just to deny Democrats a line of attack during the 2012 campaign, but tax cuts probably aren’t enough to revive the economy. Unfortunately for the millions of unemployed, Washington lacks the vision to do anything meaningful that might bring create jobs. The best we can probably hope for at this point is that the economy skirts recession and resumes its anemic recovery.
Writing about politics is not much fun right now. Perhaps I can at least look forward to a Packers win tonight.
