Yahoo! News - W.House Declines to Endorse Jobs Forecast
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday backed away from its own buoyant employment forecast that had predicted 2.6 million new jobs this year, marking the second time in as many weeks the Bush administration has reversed course on the key election-year issue of job creation.

In a position that quickly triggered a chorus of criticism from Democrats, President Bush and his top economic aides repeatedly sidestepped opportunities to embrace the optimistic job-projection figure published just a week ago in the Economic Report of the President.

Who can believe anything that is said by this administration anymore? Do they ever mean what they say?