Data Says Obama is One of Worst Ever

Via RealClearPolitics comes this data on the performance of our Democratic President, Barack Obama:

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Going back to World War II, that is by far the worst record for any president in his first 17 months, outpacing the job destruction experienced in the early Bush years by more than 800,000 jobs.

Sure, you can blame the first few months of that period on lame-duck President Bush. But perhaps companies accelerated their shedding of jobs because they were bracing for higher tax rates, increased union power and costly environmental taxes under Obama.

Other measurements are only slightly kinder to Obama. The two-percentage-point increase in unemployment rate during his presidency, to 9.7 percent from 7.7 percent, is the third-worst since World War II. Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford saw bigger increases.

GDP growth under Obama, an abysmal 3 percentage points so far, is the fourth-worst in the postwar period. Eisenhower, Ford and Ronald Reagan all began their terms with worse GDP growth.

Obama and the Democrats continue to chant over and over that this economy is "Bush's economy"- and they are correct up to a point. Bush inherited a poor economy too, and turned it around through conservative policies like less regulation and tax cuts. But Obama took a poor economy that was faced with serious problems (mostly stemming from Democratic control of Congress starting in 2006) and made them worse with liberal policies. At some point, he has to take responsibility for this economy and turn it around. Here in Michigan, we've had a Democratic Governor (Jennifer Granholm) who has spent her entire 8 years as Governor blaming the poor economy on her Republican predecessor (John Engler), and if she were elected again, she'd spend the next 4 years doing it too.

Look, at some point the numbers don't lie- Obama is one of the worst President's in our nation's history, and I contend that by the end of his term of office he will continue to rank as one of the worst President's in our nation's history. He, and his party which supports his policies, deserve to be crushed in elections so that they learn their lesson and do not put in place policies in the future like they are enacting now.