"It was the capital strike wot dunnit"

The President and his party's policies such as stimulus for blue state profligacy, rapidly increasing costs for now mandatory health insurance, huge increases in environmental, financial and  energy regulatory burdens, wild talk about 'getting ' the rich and a deliberate Senate do nothing strategy to block alternatives all depressed business confidence leading to the worst investment and job creation climate since the Great Depression.

Which isn't surprising because BHO followed FDR's play book without the native optimism or the big ass war. It's as if he didn't know history. Or rather the only history he knew was left wing. And the Dems have paid a brutal and richly deserved price for putting forward a shallow, inexperienced, temperamentally unsuited hard core leftist candidate just because his race would guarantee a victory.