“President Barack Obama, the joke’s on you,” reported the Associated Press Monday. While the president had a “chuckle” last week about jobs hanging in the balance, increasingly, it’s he and his failed economic agenda that have attracted ridicule – and late night laughs. We’re all for jokes, but with a “new normal” of stagnant wages, rising costs, and persistently high joblessness, there’s little funny about the president’s handling of the economy. Still, that doesn’t seem to be a concern for the president, as he has adopted an if-you-can’t-beat-em-join-em approach and will travel to Los Angeles Tuesday to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Yes, as part of his latest pivot to the economy, the president believes Leno is the perfect setting to discuss his ideas for jobs. It makes sense, really. When it comes to the president’s performance on the economy, Mr. Leno will surely find no shortage of material, but if he’s looking for ideas worthy of mockery, here are just a few suggestions: The notion that the president is willing to force a shutdown of the government if spending cuts he proposed and signed into law are not replaced with higher taxes. It just sounds like [...]
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