Obama's "Engine, Engine? Number, Nine" Problem

Hey President Obama?  America wants jobs, please.  Obama wants an economic engine but all he's got is that 9% plus unemployment number.

A majority of Americans believes President Barack Obama has neglected job creation and economic fears are weighing heavily on Democrats ahead of November 2 elections, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.

Sixty-seven percent of voters said Obama has not focused enough on creating jobs, with the economy seen as the country's main problem.

Almost half those polled said they were unhappy with Obama's handling of the economy as unemployment is stuck at 9.5 percent. Satisfaction with Obama's performance on the economy dropped steadily from earlier Ipsos polls.

Forty-six percent of registered voters said they would vote Republican at the November congressional elections, as opposed to 44 percent who said they would back Democrats.

Count me along with that 67%.  With the White House predicting 9%+ unemployment into 2012, there's a hell of a lot Obama could be doing right now with the power of the Executive and the Labor Department right now, but he's not.  Moreover, the White House seems resigned to that 9%+ number for another two years easy.

Even worse, he's listening to the anti-stimulus people that the best way out of this mess is to basically have ten million more unemployed than jobs available for another 24 months because...it'll be good for us or something.  After all there are ten million invisible jobs out there, but people are too lazy to get them.  Yeah, that's it.

And yet, the White House is wondering why the President and the Democrats are getting pummeled in the polls.