[When] Romney himself was running a government, in his case the state of Massachusetts, he was even more defensive about his lack of control of the employment picture than Obama is today. A new video unearthed by the liberal research group American Bridge shows Romney at a press conference in June 2006 admonishing reporters on disappointing jobs data. “You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months,” he explains.
“And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month,” he added.
- Section: News & Comment
- Topics: Campaign 2012, job growth, Mitt Romney
PRICELESS!
But he seems to think Obama should have taken care of the problem on day one and fixed it! Moron!
You misread… Romney said “I came in and they kept falling for 11 months”. Obama has had 40 months to turn things around. You are comparing 11 months to 40 months! Wake up people! ~
If Romney were elected he would immediately play around with Obama’s jobs plan for infrastructure, call it his jobs plan, the repubs would vote for it, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs (the ones they are blocking now) then they would be on every TV channel crowing about republican ability to create jobs.
My thoughts exactly, j. And if Romney is not elected but the House and Senate go to the GOP, Republicans will spend the next three years doing everything in their power to impeach Obama for some trivial reason.