The news from and around the National Governors Association is like a 1960's Batman comic.

A big "Biff!" on the lack of focus on the economy:

"Universally the governors are saying, ‘We’ve got to talk about jobs,’" Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, a Democrat, said in an interview. "And all of a sudden we have immigration going on."

and a long term "Bam!"

The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from within" unless checked by tough action in Washington...[White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton Erskine] Bowles said that unlike the current economic crisis, which was largely unforeseen before it hit in fall 2008, the coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This one is as clear as a bell," he said. "This debt is like a cancer."

and policy time bombs set to go "Boom!"

"...buried deep within some of the Democrats’ most significant reform bills are dozens of policy time bombs set to blow at more politically convenient times. The Democratic reform triumvirate — health care, Wall Street and energy — is filled with provisions designed to front-load policy benefits and delay political pain..."

But about those immediate benefits "Pow!" 

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, explaining why voters in his state are dissatisfied with the massive spending bill. "Are we just protecting government, or are we really stimulating the economy?..."

It is time to focus on Free Enterprise and the policies needed to get Americans back to work. Join Commissioners Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Senator Judd Gregg and Mary Landrieu, Congressman Paul Ryan, and Congresswoman Melissa Bean as we do just that this Wednesday at the "Jobs for America: Summit 2010" here in D.C.-- learn more.