The Bush Era Was That Bad and Romney Lies to Cover It Up

Mitt Romney, again, goes for the total rewrite of history:

“I think that young people will understand that ours is the party of opportunity and jobs,” the former Massachusetts governor continued. “If they want to have a president that can create good jobs and can allow them to find them a bright and prosperous future for themselves and for their families then I hope their going to vote for me.”

The party of jobs?  He can't be serious.  The GOP has the worst track record on job creation since Herbert Hoover.  More importantly, the GOP has the worst economic record of any time period since the Great Depression.

Here are the FACTS:

During the Bush years, the U.S. economy experienced the worst economic expansion of the post-war era.  Growth in investment, GDP, and employment all posted their worst performance of any post-war expansion.  In other words, the worst ever!  The Bush tax cuts were supposed to encourage business investment, but nonresidential fixed investment increased a meager 2.1% annually-- a third of the average increase and less than half that of the next poorest post-war increase in business investment on record.  Additionally, job creation during 8 years of Republican economic policy resulted in the worst job creation in the modern post-war era.

How in the world can that equal the "party of opportunity and jobs?"  It doesn't.  Only in the Republican Fantasy World can a track record so abysmal, so terrible equal "opportunity and jobs."  What's more is that Mittens is serious about this.  He really believes the Bush Economy was great.  The only thing Romney is honest about is that he wants to take Bush policies and update them for the next four years.

The cloak Romney wants to be able to pull this year is nothing short of psychotic.  He wants Americans to believe that George Bush was great, that his policies created an awesome economy, that any ripple created during the Bush years could have easily been fixed by now and the only reason the economy is in slow motion is because of the current president, which he claims gets no credit for anything.  That's what Republicans believe.  That's the lie they want Americans to buy into.  Fortunately for this nation, the facts prove the economy under George Bush and the GOP was the worst in modern history.  Any suggestion otherwise is a complete lie.  And any suggestion we should return to them is deranged.