Any government that's in power when the economy is bad gets blamed for it, and punished at the polls. You know why, Doug? People have a very short attention span. ;-) They mostly think like they drive...no farther than 10 or 15 feet past the end of their noses.

The Republicans got punished for the bad economy in 2008 and for 8 years of war and folly.

The Democrats are being punished for the bad economy right now and for continuing war and folly.

Little has really changed, in my opinion. The deck chairs got re-arranged, that's all, but it's still the Titanic.