The Dems have controlled Congress since 2007.
The House anyway, the Senate was pretty well split with 51D-49R (I think) requiring 60 to pass anything.
And Dems did a great job working with the President and RINOs to pass the first stimulus package 300B, bailouts and TARP 1. They tried to pass amnesty but that one died fortunately. Unfortunately the President calling for much of the spending in the bills he signed was Republican.
Democrats will be using that fact again in 2012 when Obama shows his debt commission report that claims he inherited all his problems. This is why we need new conservative republicans elected and a new party leadership that voted against TARP to confront him, since he (Obama) voted for TARP himself.