Romney Video Attacks Obama on Stimulus and Economy

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, continues his assault on President Obama‘s economic record on Thursday by visiting a shuttered metalworks plant in Allentown, Pa.

The plant is unique because it’s one that Mr. Obama visited in 2009, holding it up as one of those struggling places that would get a boost from the $787 billion stimulus legislation that he pushed through Congress.

In fact, a year later, the plant closed, laying off the very workers Mr. Obama had addressed.

In a Web video released this morning, Mr. Romney seeks to draw attention to that irony. And later in the day, he plans to hold a news conference at the entrance to the closed plant.

The video shows Mr. Obama touting the metalworks and the stimulus, followed by a local TV anchor noting the closing of the plant. Words appear: “Over 100,000 Pennsylvania Jobs Lost Since President Obama Took Office.”

In a statement after Mr. Romney’s Web video was released, Brad Woodhouse, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, criticized Mr. Romney’s economic ideas.

“For someone who holds himself out to know a thing or two about the economy, Mitt Romney hasn’t learned anything since the financial collapse of 2008,” Mr. Woodhouse said. “He’d simply return to the same failed policies that nearly wrecked our economy and had our nation shedding nearly 800,000 jobs a month.”