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WASHINGTON — Republicans took the offensive Tuesday and cast President Barack Obama as the culprit for the economy’s persistent frailty, hoping to shift the focus away from his State of the Union address’ theme of economic fairness.

As they awaited the president’s election season speech to the nation Tuesday night, Republicans in the Capitol and on the campaign trail accused Obama of three years of higher spending, bigger government and tax increases that have left the economy stuck in a ditch.

“If the president wants someone to blame for this economy, he should start with himself,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

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After Mitt Romney denied to a journalist Thursday that he had described the economy under President Obama as “worse” than before his term, other members of the media were quick to point out that he had said exactly that on at least three occasions in recent weeks.

The dust-up began when an NBC producer asked Romney to defend his contention the economy has worsened. “You continue to say the economy was worse,” the producer said. “But unemployment is lower than it was in 2009. The stock market was tumbling, and is now above 2,000 and it is growing slowly…How can you continue to say that things are worse?”

Romney’s response: “I didn’t say that things are worse. What I’ve said is t

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