Yup, if ever there was a political party that had it's cake and ate it too, it was the Dimocrats. The sad state of this economy lies at their feet. It sure hasn't been the Republicans that have spent the last sixty years making us dependant on foreign oil blocking nuclear power and pushing the sub prime loans.
No, but the GOP doesn't exactly get a gold star either, considering that it was largely content with the status quo when it dominated both houses of Congress and the Presidency. I don't even remember the GOP making a good faith effort at serious economic reform when it was in charge. The closest it got was in 2004 when the President sent up a social security privatization trial balloon that his own party quickly shot down.