Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner charged Mitt Romney with making “misleading and ridiculous” campaign attacks, as he argued that Romney should not begin with President Obama’s inauguration when calculating the jobs lost by women under this president.
“This is misleading and ridiculous,” Geithner said on CBS. “It’s just a political moment . . . It’s not surprising given it’s a campaign. But, you know, we have to govern in facts.”
Geithner was responding to Romney’s latest attack on Obama. “The real war on women is being waged by the President’s failed economic policies,” Romney said last week. “92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women, 92.3 percent.”
The Treasury Secretary-turned-campaign surrogate described Obama’s inauguration as an “artificial” date from which to assess Obama’s performance. “It’s a meaningless way to look at the basic contours of the economy that period of time again because it starts artificially at a time when the President came into office and the crisis was still building momentum,” he said to Bob Scheiffer in an interview recorded Friday, explaining that the majority of job losses among men happened under President Bush.
