Via Xenos and Steve Benen, let's take a trip down memory lane and recall Mitt Romney's big jobs promise during the 2012 campaign:
I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, or perhaps a little lower.
Well, Mitt, hate to break to you, but we're not even halfway through President Obama's second term and the unemployment rate is
already under six percent. And it's not just the unemployment rate, either. In September 2011, Romney
pledged to create 11 million jobs in his first term:
In a rare off-the-cuff speech – Romney boasted a notepad of notes and said in an apparent dig at President Obama that he was not using a teleprompter – he detailed a jobs plan which he says will lower the unemployment rate from the current 9.1 percent to 5.9 percent by the end of his first term as president and create more than 11 million new private sector jobs during the same time period.
Based on the last six months of
jobs data, we're on track to create ... drum roll, please ... more than 11 million jobs during President Obama's second term. And given that job growth has been accelerating, don't be surprised if we surpass those numbers.
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Of course, even though Obama beat Romney's unemployment promise by more than two years and is on track to beat or exceed his job creation pledge, Republicans aren't giving him any credit. House Speaker John Boehner
couldn't even bring himself to mention the jobs report in his statement that was supposedly on the report. And as for Mitt? Is he conceding that he didn't give the president enough credit in 2012? Nope. He's looking at running again in 2016. Can't wait to see what he promises then.