And once again, The Note is wrong.

This morning's bad-news-for-Obama spin [emphasis added]:

The Obama White House is facing another one of those days -- a jittery stock market, an uncertain Congress, and jobs numbers set to land on Washington with a wallop that might match the snow.

Fact:

The Early Word: Unemployment Rate Dips to 9.7%

Flashback to last Dec. 4, and The Note's bad-news-for-Obama spin:

The new unemployment figures out Friday may cause some quiet celebration among economists. Early estimates suggest November figures will show between 100,000 and 130,000 fewer jobs in November, significantly better than October's 190,000.

But at some point it's got to go from not getting worse as quickly as it's been getting, to actually getting better.

Until that point, this will be a presidency, if not an economy, on the brink -- and the White House knows it.

Fact:

Actual number of jobs lost last month? Just 11,000.