Where We Are Today

(Click for exciting Full-Size!) Original graphic from Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic. (story at NYT; Actual original source linked by Sullivan's Blog) I have taken the liberty of adding another pertinant data point. By my reading of this, job losses took a steep turn for the worse in August '08, then still worse in September. I seem to remember all the concern that Bush and the wingnuts were expressing for the trickle, then torrent, of folks who were SOL... no, wait a minute... It was the banks! That's it! OMG! Banks are failing! Here's a trillion bucks; we trust you to do the right thing. Wut's that? Extend employment benefits? No can do, buddy, that'd be just like socialism.

Anyway, as you can see clearly with the added data, this whole thing is Obama's fault. He's had nearly half as long to deal with it as Bush did. If we'd just given the shrub that third term we all know he was hankering for, that line would be right off the chart now. (/snark)