Information about President Obama’s forthcoming “jobs” plan is so disappointing that even Keith Olbermann is mocking him.


And the saddest part has to be more spending on school infrastructure. As I pointed out last week, per‐​student spending on facilities has increased 150 percent over the last two decades, even after adjusting for inflation. And Andrew Coulson explained how public schools can spend so much and still have infrastructure problems: waste and incompetence.


But the president’s school construction plans are such a spectacularly sorry response to our Great Recession, Little Depression, malaise, what‐​have‐​you, that it deserves to be revisited with a pitch‐​perfect intro by Mr. Olbermann: