1. A new president has limited tools he can use to spur the economy. Reagan took office and the republicans complained about the "Carter Economy" that he had inherited. The unemployment rate was 7%. Reagan said he needed massive tax cuts to turn things around. He got them and they went into effect in 1982. By November of 1982 the unemployment rate had climbed to 10.8%. You guys were still saying that it was Carter's fault. The unemployment rate did not return to 7% until 1986 and the bad was Carter's fault and the good was Reagan's tax cuts. Few republicans pointed to the increase in the deficit spending that tripled the national debt....
2. I can list the Bush policies that pushed the economy over the edge. Bush's administration saw the loss of 750,000 jobs in just the last 30 days and turned over an 8.2% unemployment rate to Obama. Those are the facts. Bush had 8 years to enact those policies that suddenly showed up in December of 2007 as having created a disaster. It wasn't legislation or executive action that killed the economy in one year. It took a number of things over 6 or 7 years that made it as bad as it was.
3. The trend from 2006 thru 2009 was extremely negative. What did Bush do that suddenly kicked in this year to turn thigns around? Obama's stimulus and tax cuts served to soften the damage done to the economy.
You seem to think that the day a president takes office all things that happen belong to him, for good or bad. That works for you guys because Clinton turned over a 4.5% unemployment rate and a budget surplus....so Bush gets credit for something he didn't do....If you guys do acknowledge an economic problem in 2001 you blame Clinton or 911...but the fact is that the unemployment rate was still pretty mild in 2002.