Because Obama and his spokespersons had said repeatedly over this past year that they had a handle on these problems. They were wrong.

This chart was put out by the Obama Administration during the debate over the stimulus package. It claimed that with the stimulus package, unemployment would peak in September and start going down from there:

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As you know, the unemployment rate has continued to rise, now hitting 10.2%. Some analysts believe it could go as high as 11% in 2010.

In March, Obama gave a major policy speech in which he laid out what he called his comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan. Now, he’s scuttling away from it after he learned what it would cost in blood and treasure.

We did not elect Obama to whine about how hard the job is, or what a mess his predecessor left him. If he felt that Bush had messed things up so badly that he couldn’t deal with it, then he shouldn’t have run for President.

The Republicans have absolutely nothing to do with it.

The Dems have a commanding majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. If they were unified, they could steamroll anything they wanted past the GOP, and the GOP couldn’t do anything to stop it.

The lack of progress is due to the trap the Dems put themselves in. To win those majorities, they had to run moderate or even center-right Dem candidates in center-right districts and states. They won. But now those moderates and center-rightists are fighting with Pelosi’s liberals. They know they can’t win re-election if they morph into liberals, so many of them are sticking with the stances they took originally.

I’m missing the days when Democrats like Al Gore would run around saying crisis=opportunity. Now it’s more like crisis=that guy (Bush, Deeds, Boehner, Snowe, Lieberman…)

What’s it take to choke out all of the growth in your garden? Just one Bush.

Nope, couldn’t be.