'Pin the tail on the economy'

WITH THE DEBT DISTRACTION OVER... President Obama turns attention to jobs.

PIN THE TAIL ON THE ECONOMY: The Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway writes: "It's increasingly clear that the Obama administration devoted all of its energy upfront to passing the stimulus package and Obamacare and then expected the economy and entitlements to sort themselves out while they coasted until the next camapign. At a certain point, you pivot so many times you're just going in circles, like someone put a blindfold on Obama and told him we're playing Pin the Tail on the Economy."..."Funnily enough, unemployment is still ridiculously high and GDP growth is grinding to a halt. Yet, if you listened to the president today, he insists the soft economy is because of "economic headwinds" from Europe, the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake. Oh, and congress' inability to get a debt deal done has hurt things as well. (Don't bother asking about any role the president and his policies might have had in hurting the economy.) Suffice to say, the the President expects congress to get its act together and bring some bills for him to sign immediately."