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Mitt Romney beclowns the Netroots on job growth.

Excuse me. You don't get to do that to our candidates. Only WE get to do that to our candidates.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 6th, 2011 at 07:30 PM  | 

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I don’t normally devote the front page of RedState to Twitter nonsense from the Online Left – aside from everything else, the netroots are horrifically bad at Twitter, which makes it not quite sporting – but I’ll make an exception in this case.

The short version: the campaign of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney put out a chart today as part of his jobs plan that happened to show historical data on our five most recent recessions. It was done up as a bar graph, with red and blue bars: the red bars showed jobs lost in the recession, while the blue bars showed the jobs added in the 24 months following. I’m quoting, by the way: the legend was clearly printed on the chart.   Here, look for yourself:

This is a problem for the netroots, seeing as the graph fairly clearly shows that for the first time in at least thirty years there has not been a net gain in jobs in the two year period since the end of a particular recession (translation: Obama’s job recovery is unique in its feckless uselessness).   Desperate to avoid admitting – even to themselves – that their man-god has so abjectly failed them, therefore, agents of Media Matters and Daily Kos have been trying to pretend that Romney was claiming that Obama was in office in 2007 (with a manic, if not hysteric, subtext of Look at the stupid Republican, please, god, LOOK AT THE STUPID REPUBLICAN WHY WON’T YOU LOOK AT THE STUPID REPUBLICAN OH god THIS ALWAYS WORKED BEFORE)… which was such a ridiculous argument that the noted Right Wing Death Beasts over at Talking Points Memo had to gently tell them that no, Romney was not saying that.  Not that this will be enough to get the netroots to pay attention to objective reality, bless their hearts… so our own Ben Howe has taken the trouble to make the situation clear to Oliver Willis, Markos Moulitsas, and everybody else on the Online Left with a room temperature IQ.

We at RedState hope that this helps.  Actually, no, that’s a lie.  We at RedState hope that this burns like acid.

Moe Lane

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  • bk

    Their version is that it shows Obama created or saved 8 million jobs.

  • jaykali

    This recession is a lot bigger than the others…altho I don’t believe a trillion dollars was spent for the other recessions.

    Maxine Waters wants another trillion, so do other Keynesians like Krugman. Demand side economics…not working so much. In part bc Democrats can’t help but use a big pile of money for giveaways to unions and other special interests.

    It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if they actually used the money on projects that could have conceivably been worthwhile like infrastructure. Probably would have only been stimulating in the short term, but I imagine we’d be in slightly better shape with a few more roads here or there.

  • jaykali

    I think they say it every so often, but it doesn’t seem to be emphasized much anymore sense it sounds really stupid in light of the 9% unemployment rate we’ve had for sometime.

    The saved metric is like the Keynesian multiplier for govt spending, when they can’t come up with REAL empirical data they make stuff up. But oh ya even though they manufacture economic data we need to believe them on global warming…

  • bk

    since half of those were in Texas and the lefties said those don’t really count as jobs created. Oops.

  • charlesmartel

    “It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if they actually used the money on projects that could have conceivably been worthwhile like infrastructure.”

    Slightly OT, but it almost makes me weep when I think about how unbelievably strong and healthy and just outright “good” our country could be if even a tenth of the money and resources and effort that have gone into these stupid, worthless leftist pipe dreams and corruption had instead been used for productive endeavors. We’d have f’ing colonized the moon by now or something. Leftists are so dense, we could probably have cheap clean energy and the resulting relative world peace they so badly want if they’d only get out of the way and let this country live up to its full, unfettered potential. Nice I’m pissed, and I was having such a nice evening.

  • trutexan

    Just so the administrations kinda match up. (IMHO).

  • minister_of_war

    Your post made me laugh so hard. Even though I saw the graphics, I still had to read what you wrote & I almost knew exactly what you would say. Perfect. Hilarious. The morons are the left are so freaking dumb, but I love that new graph by Ben Howe. Pure genius.

  • acat

    updated with administration names

    I found that the only recessions listed in the graph were under GOP administrations.

    Now, I’m not saying that whoever put this together did it wrong, but .. isn’t that odd? NO recessions under Carter or Clinton?

    Mew

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    It’d still have failed, and Obamacare still would have collapsed the job market.

  • onemovoter

    We’ve had quite a few Republican Presidents so it only goes to show that at some point a recession will hit during their time.

    However, Reagan had to deal with Carter’s crappy economy, then we doubled the time between recessions which used to be 4-5 years. Bush Sr. had a very small recession, left a recovering economy to Clinton. Clinton nearly flat lined it during his first 3 years. Once Republicans took control of congress, the economy boomed. Clinton handed off the tech bubble burst and 9/11 to GWB. GWB fixed that for awhile for 7 years, then the housing bust. FINALLY a Republican handed off a recession induced by democrat policies. Obama has completely screwed that up.

    So recap: Reagan fixed by cutting taxes. GWB fixed by cutting taxes. Obama screwed it up by raising taxes and regulations.

    ;) ~~

  • rightwingmom52

    . . .

  • minister_of_war

    … No offense to Erick, but I think that Moe’s the best that RedState’s got.

  • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Loren Heal

    this:
    @lheal Loren Heal
    In which @moelane gently nudges @owillis and #p2, redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/? cleaving flesh from bone and leaving a really nasty smell. #tcot

    I don’t usually post tweets here, considering it bad form, but that was sort of an homage to Moe.

  • The_Gadfly

    an official recession under Carter, but officially it ended in March of 75 and the next one only started after Reagan came into office. I new that while the rate of growth was decreasing under Clinton, it never quite stopped, so he didn’t have one. And if you only go back to 1970, Carter and Clinton are the only two Dems elected president.

  • The_Gadfly

    whether there was numbers fiddling to get an official ending to the recession in the false belief that by declaring the recession ended, job growth would begin.

    I do know the numbers weren’t tweaked, but only because too many outside observers depend on the numbers being correct for fiddling to be preserved.

  • mirac777

    The heathen Liberals posing as Democrats took over complete control of Congress, thus the slide into recession turned into an avalanche. The theft,graft and wealth redistribution thievery was partly planned to make GWB look like a big spender to open the door for the clueless community organizer in 2008. Remember Obama’s famous speech on July 3rd, 2008 saying GWB used the credit card from China to put massive debt on the backs of children and that is unpatriotic. Take a good look at 2000-2006, deficits were under $5oo B. Add to that the fact that the democratic congress of 4 straight years 2006-2010 basically refused to even create a budget which is required by law, in order to try to hide their spending, and they continue to do it today in the U. S. Senate. Democrats sealed Obama’s fate as a one-termer and are too stupid to know it today.

  • popster

    takes place it does show that gimme politics and nanny statism does not work.

  • ihateliberals

    they won’t be able to fix the economy like Reagan was able to. while Reagan was president there were still companies n the USA. Whenthey started hiring they hred American workers. Today a majority of the six figure jobs have been moved off-shore. just creating infrastructure jobs isn’t going to be enough especially since many of those jobs will og to illegals. Until we entice companies to move their jobs back to the USA and we fix the immigration problem the economy is pretty much at t stand still. Sweeping floors at McDoanld’s isn’t going to help people to buy houses which leads to the purchase of many other things and tose things put people to work.

    Liberals hate job growth because it takes people of the dependency roles of all the entitlement programs. When people are working they don’t need welfare, food stamps etc. the next few presidents have a challenging job ahead of them and if another Liberal is elected we may never recover. I mean even a RINO Republican because RINO ‘s are liberals. Right now we don’t have any conservatives that are in the running. Two of the most conservatives have been pretty much eliminated, Michelle Bachman and Time Pawlenty. Noth of the front runners are liberals and they will not be good for America anymore than Obama has been. The only difference between Obama and the Republican front runners is the Republicans like America.

  • bruceinva

    The measure of the recession is somewhat skewed in that the time period definition of recession may span more than one president. And the effects of the policies of a president may take some time to kick in. Historically, (IMHO)Nixon’s price controls caused the recession but Ford’s steady hand got us going. The full effects of Carter led to the start of the recession that was given to Reagan. Look at the strong Reagan recovery.

    Now look at the third one. See that tiny little blip of red jobs lost. Now remember this represents what Bill Clinton campaigned on calling it ?the worst economy since the Great Depression? and people believed that LIE. You can see for yourself that the jobs lost were greater in 1973 and 1981 recessions than in 1990-91 recession

    Note that most of those jobs created after the depth of the recession were created before Clinton took office. Oh, I know, you think I?m feeding you a partisan line of bull. Well, look it up. You get to the bottom of the recession and then the economy starts adding jobs and growth. Pretty soon the recession is over. And when did that recession end? Well, you can look it up but the economists stated that it ended in May 1992. Yes, that?s right. While Clinton was in full campaign mode about the worst economy since the Great Depression the economy was recovering and adding jobs.

    Unfortunately for Bush 41, they didn?t ANNOUNCE that the recession was over until late that fall, too late to counter months of Clinton?s lies about the economy.

    One final note. No recession under Clinton? He had Republicans controlling Congress to keep him from implementing policies that would send us into one.