Some mumbo-jumbo just turns out to be ... well, too mumbo. This from CNN ...

The White House backed away Wednesday from its own prediction that the economy will add 2.6 million new jobs before the end of this year, saying the forecast was the work of number-crunchers and that President Bush was not a statistician.

I think we'd all agree to that last point. But can he hire one?

Embarrassing. The bloom is really coming off this rose.

The credibility account is close to overdrawn.

Drip, drip, drip.