Connie Mack Bashes Obama on Economy and Debt

This week, supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have been bashing President Barack Obama for broken promises. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, went to bat for Romney on Tuesday, hammering Obama on the economy and the national debt.

America might be in deeper trouble than we thought: a new report says our nations average weekly wages dropped in 2011 for only the fifth time in 33 years, Mack said in a statement. Unfortunately, this does not come as much of a surprise, seeing as how the average duration of unemployment has doubled since President Obama took office. Its now a staggering 39.7 weeks.

Instead of making strides to repair our broken economy, however, we have a president who believes the private sector is doing fine. At times, the president seems as if he is in denial," continued Mack.

Mack pointed to a quote from Obama in which the president said, What we have been able to do over the last three and a halfyears, after a decade in which we had been moving in the wrong direction, is to begin to point toward a trajectory where here in this country, everybody is getting a fair shot."

The congressman called out the president for those remarks.

Since when have lower wages constituted a fair shot'? Since when is this a viable trajectory for our economy? Mack demanded. Since when can President Obama even begin to claim a successful record on the economy? After all, this is the same president who has rung up more debt than all previous presidents combined. Indeed, it remains an open question how burying our children in an additional $4 trillion of debt can be considered a trajectory at all, unless that trajectory is a nose dive.

Mack has been a prominent Romney supporter, helping the former Massachusetts governor during the Republican primary back in January. Look for the two campaigns to continue to support each other through November as the Republicans look to take back Florida from Obama and knock off Nelson.