We Come Not To Praise Obama

...but to bury him.  Charlie Cook is already writing the Dems' political obituary ten months before the election.

Honorable and intelligent people can disagree over the substance and details of what President Obama and congressional Democrats are trying to do on health care reform and climate change. But nearly a year after Obama's inauguration, judging by where the Democrats stand today, it's clear that they have made a colossal miscalculation.

The latest unemployment and housing numbers underscore the folly of their decision to pay so much attention to health care and climate change instead of focusing on the economy "like a laser beam," as President Clinton pledged to do during his 1992 campaign. Although no one can fairly accuse Obama and his party's leaders of ignoring the economy, they certainly haven't focused on it like a laser beam.

OK.  That's a valid argument so far as the lack of economic focus.  but remember, it was the Republicans who demanded the stimulus package be scaled back. But here's where Cook goes wrong:

A number of economists expect that unemployment will get worse before it gets better. Even if that prediction is wrong, some analysts estimate that Labor's household employment survey would have to show a net increase of 150,000 jobs a month for 48 straight months for the unemployment rate to drop to just 9 percent.

So you're saying that Obama has failed after 12 months to fix something that will need 48 months to even start to fix.  And it's all the Democrats' fault for failing to fix the worst economy since the Depression in just 12 months...an economy the Dems inherited after a good 30 years of trickle-down, voodoo economics and two wars on top of a financial crisis that nearly destroyed the country.

Got it.  That's totally fair to the Dems.  Let's impeach the f'cker already and let the Republicans run the place some more.  They'll totally create 7 million jobs in 12 months.