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Mitt Romney On New Jobless Numbers: Obama ‘Will Have A Hard Time Putting Perfume On This Pig’

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News of a rather stunning and significant drop of the jobless figures released today, appeared to not only catch the world of opinion journalists flat-footed today, but professional politicians as well. GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney appeared this morning on Fox and Friends just as the news of the 8.6% unemployment rate broke (down .4% from last month’s 9%), and host Gretchen Carlson immediately asked the former Massachusetts Governor if he thought this was a “big boost for Obama.” Romney’s reply seemed to reveal that he put politics over the nation’s improved fortune, as he diminished the news as a “silver lining.”

The fact that more Americans are back at work, particularly during what can best be called a stagnant economy, is the sort of news that should first be celebrated by any political aspirant before leveling heated political rhetoric. So Romney’s gut-level reaction to the news seems tone deaf at best, politically incompetent at worst.

Romney said “This is the slowest recovery we’ve seen since Hoover,” adding “[Obama]‘s going to try and put a silver lining in a very dark cloud, but the truth is that his economic policies have made us more and more like Europe, [with] high unemployment and low income growth. Median income in America dropped by 10%. He’ll have a hard time putting perfume on this pig.”

Host Brian Kilmeade seemed taken aback by Romney’s harsh reaction, and seemed to plead for the GOP presidential contender to reconsider his rhetoric, asking, “8.6, but below 9%, which is at least going in the right direction for the country.” At this point, Romney appeared to catch himself and pivoted his reply in a more positive light, saying “it’s very good news, obviously, going into the holiday season, people are shopping again, very good news that the unemployment rate is down.” For good measure, however, he got one last dig in, saying “but look overall at the president’s record on the economy, it’s been miserable.”

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  • Anonymous

    There will be no point up to the next presidential election when any of the republicans say a kind word about Obama, for sure. They have put all their pigs in one basket, sink the US economy and try to blame Obama for it.

  • expatpatriot

    First he was for increasing employment — before he was against it.

    And this is supposed to be the only adult the Republicans are running?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    The same could be said of his interview with Fox News. 

  • Anonymous

    John Boehner right after the mid term elections in 2010. “We’re going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs.”

    The first things the House Republicans did was vote to restrict  abortions and women’s rights, defund NPR and Planned Parenthood, and defund the  early hurricane warning program. Since they took control of the House they have voted 169 times to weaken environmental laws, and that was only up until Oct 14th of this year.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opinion/the-republicans-vs-the-environment.html

    This is a diary of the House Republicans votes since they took control of the  House:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/opinion/the-republicans-vs-the-environment.html

    It’s pretty hard to put lipstick on this pig  of a record, Mitt.

  • Henry Wood

    Good news for the country is TERRIBLE NEWS for conservatives.

    It’s hard to put perfume on all of these right wing pigs.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “This is the slowest recovery we’ve seen since Hoover,”- Mitt

    The 2001 recession saw a similar trend of slow return to peak (jobs).  The drop was far less severe.
    http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/12/november-employment-report-120000-jobs.html

  • Anonymous

    You need to change your lipstick.

  • Anonymous

    The Repub House has passed 20 job related  bills

    http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/

    Unfortunately, most have been blocked by the Dem Senate.

  • Anonymous

    No- this is bad news for OWsers- they might have to work!

  • Anonymous

    I’m glad you watch so much Fox News.

    You’re easily amused by non-News.

  • Anonymous

    You might as well post a link to the Heritage Foundation. What did the jobs bills consist of and what amendments were attached to them that the Democrats didn’t like? If you research things you might find out they were most likely bills were designed to kill social safety net  programs more than creating jobs. Give me the details on all the bills and the amendments. One of the Republican bills proposed eliminating the US Postal service and all the postal jobs and having private companies take over. Great huh? I mean the cost of mailing a letter would be left up to the likes of Lloyd Bankfein, Soon, 1.45 postage would be required to pad their wage and bonus packages.

  • Pablo

    31 jobs bills have passed the House. 23 of them are stalled in the Senate.

    http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/

  • Henry Wood

    “Job related” bills, none of which would have created a single job, and many of which would have eliminated thousands of them.

    I guess bills that eliminate jobs are “job related” bills.

  • Anonymous

    LOL, did you even look at the bills? Only one has jobs listed in the title, and it’s a tax giveaway bill to employers.All the other bills have to do with destroying regulations and  environmental laws. Did you even look look at the bills? Good God all mighty, you just  proved what a joke the GOP is with that link. Thank You!

  • Pablo

    Oh, so a bill only affects employment is it has “Jobs” in the title!

    Idiot.

    Tell me, moron, how is this bill a tax giveaway?

    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2587

    Boeing’s new SC plant would be up and running and 9000 people would be working there if this were law. That’s just one situation that would benefit.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Yes, of course – but at the same time, no one can possibly dispute how darned cute and irresistibly loveable is Mittens, with his little naive efforts at relating to the commoners, and his tries to bring in little homilies like “lipstick on a pig” but getting it sooo wrong. He just gives you starbursts and weak-knees and it’s just amazing why we don’t just cancel this silly little election thing & make him in charge for like evuh.

    Oh Mittens … *sigh*, and *swoon*

  • Anonymous

    Pablo just demolished you with less words. Boom!

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Ha! The House Rrrs rename a public toilet or a post office box after a some minor pol in a southern county & then call THAT a “jobs bill”. They’ve been calling their laundry tickets “jobs bills”. They get speeding tickets, those are “jobs bills”. Monthy cable bill, now “jobs bills”. Such b.s., and a in Boehner shit.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Hey, Pablum, you could call the front of your freakin’ HAT a “jobs bill” if you want.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s be honest for a moment, shall we?  Republicans hate the United States with every fiber of their being.

     They ALL supported the country that attacked us on 9/11.  They ALL supported the wars that drained our economy and murdered tens of thousands of human beings, including thousands of U.S. troops.  They ALL supported the ridiculous tax cuts that added massively to our debt.  They ALL attacked our civil rights and liberties, going as far as to suspend habeas corpus and allow the government to spy on the people.  They ALL chose torture and other war crimes over the Constitution and the rule of law.  They ALL support the banksters over the people.

    You don’t have to like Obama or Democrats, but it’s absolutely ABSURD to suggest that a Republican — a proven enemy of our country — be considered for president of the United States.  Be realistic.

  • Anonymous

    This has much more to do with the fact that people have abandoned looking for work and have been dropped from unemployment benefits.

    But I understand the lame stream medias attempt to spin anything to help this incompetent idiot in the WH and the under-informed on the left will buy into this hook line and sinker!!
    What a joke!!

  • Anonymous

    About half of them are deregulation bills. How did all that deregulation in the banking industry turn out?

  • Anonymous

    For a person that has Herman Cain as  his avatar who wasn’t even  aware China had nukes since the 60′s when Herman said: “So yes they’re a military threat. They’ve indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop
    more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.” 

    And, every time he says something ignorant, he later says ” I was just joking.” I won’t  return the name calling, you do enough damage to yourself. Seriously, look at all the bills and tell me which one is going to create jobs in America and how.

  • Henry Wood
  • Anonymous

    Well, the banks have paid back all of the money that they borrowed. Where’s GM’s loan monies?

    Also, I love how you conflate an issue. Massively funny.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Amato/692316541 Mike Amato

    I love the solemn mood at Fox & Friends!

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain and Obama have one thing in common = they both make crappy Presidents.

    Glad we can agree.

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising the lame stream media will use temporary holiday jobs as a means to boost the incompetent one!!

  • Anonymous

    Funny how the lead story is how wonderful Obama is and the story below is how inept he is (at least in terms of the subject of the article)

  • Anonymous

    You mean the money we lent them after they nuked our economy leading us to argue about unemployment numbers in the first place. I dont see how you think deregulation in different industries is unrelated to the past failings of massive deregulation in banking.

  • Pablo

    I see you’re not going to answer my question, which means you’ve come to the failure of your argument.  Welcome, Mr. Guy Who Has A Convicted Felon For An Avatar!!!!!

  • Henry Wood

    That bill should have been called “Giving Boeing lobbyists a blowjob act of 2011″

  • Pablo

    Really? Then why did Harry Reid pass and Obama sign 8 of them?

  • Pablo

    Pumping cash into unions: Jobs Bill! Let’s call a Joint Session!

  • Pablo

    Wow, what a cogent, intelligent, instructive point!

  • Pablo

    Deregulation wasn’t the problem. Lax, inefficient, ineffective regulation was a problem. How is Dodd-Frank working out, particularly for Jon Corzine’s MF Global victims?

  • Pablo

    You mean the money we forced them to take and didn’t want them to repay?

  • Henry Wood

    “I love how you conflate an issue.”

    This is comedy gold, considering that you just conflated bank deregulation with the TARP bailout.

    Answer the question.  How did bank deregulation turn out for us?

  • Anonymous

    Uh-Oh, he said “dark cloud”! Racist!

  • Henry Wood

    Pablo, you mean the 7.7 trillion in secret loans (including $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008 alone!) that we forced the banks to accept at %0.01 interest from the federal reserve?

  • Henry Wood

    Deregulation wasn’t the problem, lax regulation was?  Do you hear how utterly moronic you sound?

  • Henry Wood

    Obama is always bending over backwards to compromise with republiklans.  Not sure why he does that.

  • Anonymous

    Whether it is through the next election or into his second term, Republicans will  blame Obama on the economy along with every other ill known to man. Everyone knows who tanked the economy – 8 years of GWB. But the great new way to play politics is to take your screw up and blame others for it. Teatards and Republicans have taken finger pointing to new heights.

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising how the brainless conservatards will conveniently forget that three years ago we were losing over 500,000 jobs a month, even with holiday jobs, as a means of justifying their pathological hatred of the competent one!!

  • Anonymous

    The lax, inefficient regulation was just another front in the deregulation war. They obviously couldn’t just get rid of something like the SEC so they put people who were either incompetent or corrupt in the head positions. Don’t get me wrong, I think the entire government regulation system needs to be fixed on almost every front, but you can’t just throw them out completely, with the current state of things once there gone there is almost zero chance of a better system making its way through this government.
    As for your other reply to me below, only a handful of banks were forced to take money, and it was Paulson under Bush who forced them to do it. Not a very effective argument. I’m not sure where you got the “didn’t want them to pay it back” from so I have nothing on that.

  • Anonymous

    Is he living in another world?

  • Anonymous

    In other words, you can’t refute that they passed bills. BTW, why don’t ya read the bills- you can’t read?

    I didn’t thin so, charlie.

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising the Obots have forgiven and forgotten the incompetent ones promise that unemployment will not exceed 8% if his porkulus money laundering scheme to the Democratic party was passed…..well it was passed and now they are celebrating a fabricated number of 8.6%!!

    Hard to believe so many people are so gullible!!

  • Anonymous

    this is funny coming from the guy who has been the proverbial LIPSTICKED  PIG of the GOP…
    irony is best served warm—with bacon~

  • Anonymous

    looks like you had german shepard for breakfast this morning…

  • Anonymous

    is that all you have?

    we were getting there until we got THE WORST CONGRESS IN HISTORY to stop our momentum..

    but even with the GOP monkeys on our back…WE STILL PUSH FORWARD TO CREATE MORE JOBS EVERY MONTH THAN GW DID IN 8 YEARS..
    mmmmmm tastes good~

  • Anonymous

    ya and all of those damn stores FULL OF PEOPLE BUYING THINGS….
    man i bet you people just hate this…

    USA USA USA

  • Anonymous

    THEY HAVE NOTHING–NOOOOO-THING….

    they are just crabbing at straws now..
    these are the people who actually complained about killing Bin Laden…i mean really..
    what do you expect?

  • Anonymous

    worst congress in history..
    under dems the first 2 years over 200 bills passed and we were on a fast track to recovery..

    the worst congress in history gets elected…everything breaks down..
    FACTS IS FACTS IS FACTS..

  • Anonymous

    you an put yours on my ass..pucker up..

    cry me a river…
    USA USA USA..
    OBAMA 2012 AND BEYOND~

  • Anonymous

    “Lamestream media”. Is CC really Sarah Palin? God, I hope not. We don’t need THAT kind of stupid on this website. Although, she’s giving it one hell of a ride. And so is Sarah Palin!

  • Anonymous

    Well according to the serial divorcer, Moot RichGrinch he’s going to be the nominee and that’s all she wrote. Good luck with that, Teabaggers!

  • Anonymous

    The prime factor here is not new jobs but the amount of people leaving the workforce because they are giving up. Of course the libtards paint this as evidence of how great a job Obama is doing. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget that they still like to blame Slick Willie Clinton for a lot of stuff, too. That’s why they’re all about “taking their country back”. Yeah, back to 1860.

  • Anonymous

    didn’t he get that line from Sarah Palin, probably had it stored up in his little robot brain and finally got to use it and immediately screwed it up, that’s so funny saying “perfume” instead of “lipstick”.   None of the republicans care about the country right now, unless they can get in and change it to their idea of how it should be.  Then we are doomed.

  • Anonymous

    no, Mitt thinks Obama will be using perfume!!  He can’t even keep that straight, the man is socially empty.

  • Anonymous

    You Lie!!

  • Anonymous

    So now you have a problem with Obama bailing out the banks? Too funny.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Isn’t it far far easier to get perfume onto a pig than lipstick onto a pig? 

    It’s not just the lack of lips, those pigs are slippery devils; but even Officer John Pike could casually spray a whole line of pigs and probably not miss perfuming even one.

    Mittens sure has shitty metaphors and similes. Maybe that’s what happens with too many Family Nights and Wholesome Board Game Nights and magic undies: you lose all sense of the poetic in life.

    Plus, the more Americans spend about, oh, 5 minutes tops in thinking what it would be like to have Romney as president, the more they hate the whole idea.

  • Henry Wood

    Hey cool more right wing racism on display!

  • Pablo

    Because it’s a good thing when the government tells a private company where they can build their plants based on whether or not unions like it!

    Actually, they should have called it the “Getting Trumka’s Dick Out of America’s Ass Act of 2011″.

  • Pablo

    No, Henry, I mean TARP. Try to keep up. If you want to tell me that we don’t need the Federal Reserve doing what it does, I agree and blame Woodrow Wilson. Stupid Progressives.

  • Anonymous

    As expected, the lamestream socialist fake-news media is having an OBOZO-gasm over that 8.6% number even though it was primarily caused by the fact that 315,000 additional people stopped looking for non-existent jobs and the total number of unemployed and underemployed people in the US INCREASED.  It’s called the OBOZO depression for many, many good reasons.

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    Using Obama’s statistical trickery in measuring the unemployment rate if every unemployed person were to stop looking for work the rate would come down to ZERO. But using honest metrics when you include the unemployed who have stopped looking for work the rate is in the depression range of 13%.

  • Anonymous

    sheesh, reading you Obama bashers about the Joblessness, all I have to wonder is—-WHERE the H*ll were you little guys when Bush, for 8 years, created the least amount of jobs of any President.    When more jobs got shipped overseas under Bush, than any President in history.      That LOST more jobs per month than any President in history.

    What short memories sheep have !

  • Anonymous

    have him cook you up some chihuahua, you’ll love it…

    although it might make you a cannibal.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P6EXDWBOY7JQYX46KM52I3ABZU P00KIE

    Poor Romney, still telling his lies.

    This is a big gain for our President Obama whether your party of “do nothings’ like it or not. 

  • Pablo

    Yes, you’re correct about Paulson, but not so much that it was just a handful of banks. Great big banks were forced to take billions and they’re now demonized for doing what they were forced to do. As for the payback problems, see here for a taste:

    http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/21/news/economy/paying_back_tarp.breakingviews/index.htm

  • Anonymous

    He didn’t create. He lost Jobs

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are the pigs that the GOP will have to put the perfume on.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Teapublicons have this problem: No matter how good the news is, they cannot approve of it. The latest jobs news is not great, but it is good. That just does not fit in the Teapublican picture because they need a continuing economic disaster to keep people from questioning the “wisdom” of Tea Mania. 

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the worst congress in history began in 2007 with Pelosi at the helm.  Remember her mantra while running in ’06?  It was Six for ’06 one item on the list was to drain the swamp, one item was to fix the economy,  she sure did that.  Then in ’08 it was jobs and now after Harry Reid stalled the House jobs bills she bitches about jobs. 

    As far as creating more job than Bush.  Try creating some real jobs this time, not that saved or created fabrication that’s been going on since the stimulus passed and failed.

  • Anonymous

    There he goes again! Romney making like he can’t believe president Obama has done so well after all the roadblock placed in front of him. The 2010 elections gave the TEA-GOP-Republicans the go-ahead to generate jobs for America. They Lied! The leadership incompetence and ineptitude grossly captured Boehner’s crippling tears. There were numerous mini-wars that should never have happened. Housing will not recover until the Congress addresses’ the “Housing Bubble Debacle” and the Banking industries “Derivative Schemes” that created and perpetrated the crash of ’08 and ’09! Home prices have tumbled, bankruptcies continue and banks will use their insurance on properties to keep their assets guaranteed at the expense of American taxpayers even after we bailed them out! The continued greed, reckless-ne­ss and illegal behavior on Wall Street, along with the current Congress’ in-activit­y in generating jobs as they promised in 2010 will only exacerbate the inevitable! Career politician’s out to save their jobs is more important than their constituents. The elitist TEA-GOP-Republican membership honor their pledges to people like Grover Norquist, Bob Vander Plaats, Edward H Crane and David Keene, and other puppeteers, rather than honor their commitment to the constituents. Yet the president prevails. Responsible representation requires reputable persons who have not violated decency or ethics while not giving in to pledges to puppeteers or other controls. One who will stand up strong to any and all who would corrupt American standards. There should be no patronage to any one sect or person in elections. Thoses who place themselves as leaders of specific groups or false leaders should be called out as special interest people who do not deserve recognition as churches in America.

  • Anonymous

    Yep, from the bureau of labor and stats…….

    In November, 2.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force,about the same as a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Theseindividuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, andhad looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted asunemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding thesurvey. (See table A-16.)

    Now, what did they say the current rate is?

  • Anonymous

    They always prove my points for me.  They’re too stupid to do anything else.

  • Darr247

    Not to mention nobody really wants to see President Obama put perfume on Mitt, anyway.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Romney was for putting perfume on pigs…before he was against it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    not surprising that conservatives forget the jobs disappeared under their idol, George W. Boosh.

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