As grim financial news mounts, President Obama keeps defending his handling of the economy. It's "very important for folks to remember how close we came to complete disaster," the president said Tuesday. Obama also blamed "policy decisions that had been made and challenges that had been unaddressed over the course of the previous decade." But Americans aren't buying it. A new Washington Post-ABC poll finds they increasingly fault Obama for the country's economic woes, with 59 percent saying he's doing a poor job on that front, up from 55 percent last month. Is it too late for Obama to pin the blame on George W. Bush?
This is Obama's economy: Whatever Obama says about Bush, says Victor Davis Hanson at National Review, it's his own economic miscues that have us mired in this mess. "The administration’s massive borrowing, new regulations, promised higher taxes, opposition to new oil leases and pipelines, takeovers (from GM and Chrysler to health care), and rhetorical assault on the successful in private enterprise have turned a bottoming-out recession into a near-permanent slump."
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