Reality check

Jennifer Rubin pithily sums up the insanity of the government’s cheerful report on increasingly higher unemployment numbers:

So to be clear: we’re headed for double digit unemployment, the very thing the stimulus bill was supposed to stave off. We didn’t keep unemployment anywhere near 8% as the administration predicted — but we did rack up a whole lot of debt. The administration tells us this is all a ray of sunshine. And they said George Bush was cut off from reality.

I’m getting the sense that, with numbers like this, even the fiercest Obama partisans who resolutely cheer on the man and try to insulate him from criticism are getting the feeling that all is not right in Denmark.