his campaign coffers, congress has left town. for a month. the halls of congress are empty. despite all the pledges that they too would immediately focus on the nation's 14 million unemployed. >> americans are talking about -- >> good-paying jobs right at home -- >> the biggest concern the american people have is -- >> jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. >> reporter: the president took his economic team out for burgers. but economists looking at the modest measures the president is pushing for job creation -- patent reform, trade deals, a payroll tax holiday -- might wonder, where's the beef? in many ways the president's options are limited. republicans in congress did not want to spend more money on the major job-creation programs he would otherwise propose. and even smaller steps, such as spending on frastructure, are mired in the partisan quicksand of this divided congress. still, the president says he's now focusing like a laser on job creation. by our count the seventh such