With McWar and Hunting Barbie at the helm the US ship of state would have had such an economic disaster that the US would be a failed state like Somalia, the sequel to the "Grapes of Wrath" would be being written, and the economies of the rest of the Western world would have gone after.

Do Americans (well, maybe not all of them, maybe only the Murkans) actually want to re-live the Mad Max films?

If not, thank your deity of preference that the Obama-Brown axis saved you.