A graph Scott Johnson has posted on the Powerline blog certainly suggests that the answer to that question is yes. Read Johnson’s commentary here.
If you’re simply looking at the graph, what’s important to note is that each line starts at the beginning of a post-World War II recession. You’ll see that in most cases, job recovery has started within 12 months. No other post-War recession has seen the same job loss — by percentage — as we’ve seen under current circumstances.
And despite the cries from Obama partisans that the president has simply inherited a tanking economy, the graph also shows that job losses reached greater depths and extended longer in time after our 44th president had a chance to work his economic magic.
