WH Jabs Wall Street Journal Over Recovery Numbers

The White House blog took a shot at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page today.

The White House post cites a new Congressional Budget Office report that suggests the White House's stimulus initiatives have saved or created up to 1.6 million jobs. The Journal's reporting has supported that assessment, but not the paper's editorial page, which has consistently slammed the stimulus, calling it a "bust" and the recovery's "largest obstacle."

"We're not asking for a free ride," the post concludes.

We have and will continue to take great pains to provide information about the impact of the Recovery Act with more transparency than has ever been associated with a project of this magnitude. Editorialists have every right to use that information to evaluate the impact of the act and to suggest ways that its performance could be improved upon.

But I doubt you'll see that from the WSJ. Unless, that is, they start reading their own reporting.