After a Weak Jobs Report, Romney Goes on the Attack On a subject that is intended to be the center of his campaign, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama on Friday for what he called the "weak and very troubling jobs report." "This is a weak and very troubling jobs report that shows the employment market remains stagnant," Mr. Romney said in an e-mail statement released by his campaign. Millions of Americans are paying a high price for President Obama's economic policies, and more and more people are growing so discouraged that they are dropping out of the labor force altogether. Mr. Romney, the former chief executive of Bain Capital, has repeatedly argued that he is best equipped to fix the nation's struggling economy, an argument that has been undercut recently by three months of solid employment growth. Many economists had expected March to be the fourth consecutive month of strong growth. When each new positive jobs report came out, Mr. Romney had been forced to offer a more nuanced position than he might have liked - that the economy seemed to be improving, but that under Mr. Obama, it was improving slower than it should. On Thursday in Tunkhannock, Pa., Mr. Romney offered a version of the same argument. "The reason I'm so animated about defeating Barack Obama is because he's failed the American people," Mr. Romney said, speaking outside at an energy company. He came into the office, and the economy was in trouble, people were losing jobs, homes were losing their value, energy prices were beginning go up, and we would have expected him to focus his energy on getting this economy going. Mr. Romney continued: "Instead, he delegated the economy to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And they put together a grab bag of some of their favorite projects in Washington and called it a stimulus. It was a stimulus that protected government but didn't put people back to work. His e-mail statement concluded: "It is increasingly clear the Obama economy is not working and that after three years in office the president's excuses have run out."