At least part of the answer to that is the dem Congress along with Franklin Raines and Barney Frank allowing the crazy lending practices which destroyed housing. Once the voters learn that GW had a dem congress his last few years and take into account the destruction of capitalism by raines and frank it all makes sense.
We just don't have anyone talking about it right now except here.Rush to the rescue!!!
And of course Clinton had a Republican Congress as the answer to his success.Remember Newt Gingrich?
A pubbie congress is never mentioned, even by the pubbies.
Housing?! They almost destroyed the global lending industry and world economy leading to our current economic depression.
In addition to Dodds, Frank, Raines, Gorelick, don't forget to throw Greenspan in there, he was head of the FED when they issued the order for banks to violate solid lending practices and start giving bogus loans to deadbeats.
Then there's Ben Bernanke and his current Einsteinian practice of quantitative easing, printing US Dollars at the speed of light, and then using it to buy our own debt instruments.
Talk about failed economic policies!
We here know the answers. The problem is getting spokes persons on our side to drive that home to the media/press and pin the tail on their donkey.