Of course, the real story behind this story is actually "When isn't Romney lying?"

Employment Data Has Soft Patch & Media Yells 'Fire!'

And not just the usual suspects. Corporate media, right, left & center, just about all blew up last Friday's employment report, and blew it up way out of proportion. Even The Huffington Post managed to put the hype ( Read more... )

Calculated Risk Blog is left underwhelmed:

White House Debates Doing Little or Nothing

This is depressing ...from the NY Times: White House Debates Fight on Economy
Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe, and his chief of staff, William M. Daley, want him to maintain a pragmatic strategy of appealing to independent voters by advocating ideas ( Read more... )

Economist Jonah B. Gelbach writes Monday, August 1, 2011
Yuck.

That's what I have to say about President Obama's capitulation to the hostage-taking ways of congressional Republicans.

I suppose I might change my mind, but after watching the President give in to the Boehner-McConnell blackmail axis, I don't imagine I'll be ( Read more... )

Contrary to what the Party of No continues to be selling to the masses, the proof of the benefits of the economic stimulus programs put in place by President Obama (and even to an extent, W, from his last weeks in office) continue rolling in.

Case in point:

of news stories about markets voting in favor of the president"

Bloomberg:
Obama Defies Pessimists as Rising Economy Converges With Stocks March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The political consensus may be that President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy has been weak. The judgment of money in all its forms has been overwhelmingly positive, and that may ( Read more... )

Council of Economic Advisers:

JEC HEARING: THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

In a report issued on September 10, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) provided estimates of the impact of the ARRA on GDP and employment. ...

These estimates suggest that the ARRA added two to three percentage points to real GDP growth in the second quarter and three to four ( Read more... )