Mitt Romney has decided he’s comfortable claiming President Obama made the economy worse.

After making the claim during the June debate in New Hampshire, Romney appeared to backtrack last week in response to a question from a NBC News producer pointing out that economic indicators had improved after Obama had become president.

The DNC jumped on the matter, releasing a video last week and another one yesterday, accusing Romney of flip-flopping.

But Romney repeated the claim today, reports the Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson:

“The president came in and he didn’t cause the recession, as you know … but he didn’t make it better, he made things worse,” Romney said, speaking Tuesday at Bayside Grill & Tavern. “And he made things worse through a series of actions which hurt the economy at a time when it needed to be taking off. The recovery is extraordinarily anemic, again, because of things he did made that recovery worse.” …
Romney said that cap-and-trade legislation,which died in the Senate, the Obama’s 2010 health-care law and increased financial regulations have chilled economic growth as businesses sit on the sidelines.
“What [Obama] did caused them to pull back and so [the president] made the recession deeper and made it last longer,” he said. “He made things worse. And I’m absolutely convinced that we need to have someone to lead the country who understands what it takes to create jobs.”