Far Right Wing Verbal Gymnastics: Stimulus Lost Jobs…from the higher estimates.

We catching on, aren't we?

Like Paul Ryan’s ginned up expectations that all of Obama’s predictions are to be factual and numerically perfect, Rick Santorum has decided that estimates made by the administration must be exact too.

In a moment of absolute stupidity, Santorum not only said the stimulus lost jobs in a ludicrous attempt at spin, but he got his numbers wrong, never thinking long enough to realize the impossibility of those numbers. In this clip from CNBC, Ali Velshi:

SANTORUM: [Obama] passed a huge stimulus package that now we know, over the past two quarters, has actually cost American jobs, and that’s from the report of his own administration. They claimed in December that, uh, by the end of last year that they created 280 million jobs, and now they’re saying that they created only 240 million jobs. So look, in this, you’re talking about huge increases in spending. In other words, there’s 30 million less jobs as a result of the stimulus package.

VELSHI: That’s not a loss of jobs, Senator, that’s a smaller aggregation of jobs. You can’t go on a campaign, a national campaign with this kind of math Senator. It’s just incorrect…I know you’ve got a lot of interviews to do. You might want to check that math.