Democrats are out the gate this morning hammering Mitt Romney for a report in Bloomberg News that he asked Rick Scott to tone down his rosy rhetoric about how great the recovery was going in Florida under his leadership.
“Republicans in Congress are trying to stall the economy and Mitt Romney is issuing gag orders against talking about the recovery,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse said in an e-mail to reporters. “‘Rooting for failure’ doesn’t even do all this justice.”