Obama’s looking better and better - as long as he’s restrained by GOP majorities in both houses. If Romney becomes prez, he’ll use Democratic minorities and GOP centrists to get his liberal legislation passed. Whereas Obama provides no political cover for GOP turncoats in Congress.
Six years of bush and GOP Congress got us huge deficits and disastrous housing bubble. (Yes I know the Dems under Clinton started the bubble, but Bush and GOP kept it going by encouraging easy lending for people who couldn’t afford houses).
In contrast, when Clinton was president with a GOP Congress, we actually had some restraint in spending. The Republicans were incentivized to challenge the executive instead of to go along.
OTOH, a reelected Obama will give us terrible judges.
Lies. It was the last segment of Bush's tenure that saw the deficit growing so large and that was after Pelosi became speaker.
And if you think the GOP could have passed effective housing reform without Democratic cooperation you're extremely politically naive. That would have been seen as Obamacare is now...rammed through without a single Dem vote and almost every "fascist GOP" would have been voted out toute suite. Then we really would have had a depression.