The Republicans? Well history will not be as hard on them as their contemporaries. Given the political realities ( A President and majority Senate absolutely determined to raise taxes and make no spending cuts), they actually did not do that badly. Obama? Events have a way of overtaking glitz, pomposity and poor policy. There is no real economic recovery and America is facing a real economic decline due to his deficit spending, high taxes and virulently anti capitalist EPA and other administrative agencies. He can howl at Bush and blame Republicans all he wants but now owns both the economic and foreign policy debacles
I don't think so. He is the "magic ne***". He doesn't get blamed for anything and never will. Someone else is always the bogey man and 50%+ of the voters and presstitutes swallow all his crap as quickly as he can dish it out.
Do you know the word democrats invoke after a failed tax increase? The word is BIPARTISAN, works like a charm every time and magically transfers the blame entirely to the republicans.