In times like these, there have always been times like these.

Victor Davis Hanson on the obvious fact that it's never been easy to govern America, although you certainly can make it much harder if you screw with everything at once.  Money graf:

A recession and 9/11 were not easy in 2001. And 18% interest, 18% inflation, 7% unemployment, and gas lines by 1981 greeted Reagan. Truman took over with a war … a wrecked Asia and Europe, a groundswell of communism, a climate of panic at home, and a soon to be nuclear Soviet Union … capped off soon by a war in Korea.

BHO:  quit yer whinin' and try governing from the center for a change.