Feigning Interest In The Impossible?

Felix Salmon thinks the White House knows that little can be done to bring down unemployment:

On the call, [White House economic advisor Jason:] Furman valiantly tried to paint policies likecash-for-clunkers and the extension of unemployment insurance as beingall about creating jobs, but the fact is that it's hard for anygovernment to create jobs, beyond simply hiring more people, and theeffect of those policies on the unemployment rate was surely minimal atbest. ... [W:]hile keeping the...