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If the President is going to send his top three flacks to the Sunday shows to defend his $787 billion stimulus, one would think that they would all be on the same page on how many jobs they have claimed to “save or create.” But as Politico reported yesterday, “White House advisers … gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act”:

• On CNN’s “State Of The Union,” David Axelrod claimed it created or saved 2 million jobs.
• On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Valerie Jarrett claimed it “saved thousands and thousands of jobs.”
• On “Fox News Sunday,” Robert Gibbs claimed it created or saved 1.5 million jobs.

And if all of the evidence that has already been compiled against the Obama administration’s job count wasn’t convincing enough, you can add Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs to the list of stimulus critics, who said this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the Obama administration’s job counting scheme is “an unknowable concept” and always comes “up with a number … that isn’t very convincing”:

As hard as they might try, we don’t see how Obama will talk his way out of his debunked job counting science in his “Explanation To The Nation” this Wednesday.