If the Post applied the same standard to the statements from Democrats as it does to Republicans, it would do a he said, she said, where it reported Democrats complaining that the invasion had not removed Saddam Hussein as president of Iraq, while the Republicans would be insisting that he had been removed, tried, and executed. That is the only thing that one can conclude after reading the Post report on the Labor Day statement of House Minority Leader John Boehner complain that the stimulus bill has not created any jobs. Estimates of job gains from economists range from 500,000 to 1,000,000. If Mr. Boehner is unaware of this fact, then this level of ignorance of a person in an important position would be an appropriate topic for a news story.
--Dean Baker
