A couple weeks back it was announced by the National Bureau of Economic Research that the recession was not only over but that it had been over since June 2009. Was this “Bush’s recession”? No question, at least in the sense that it was inaugurated during the Bush administration, and I would argue, by the policies of Bush’s appointee to the head the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. But the problem for President Obama is that it’s his recovery. Sixteen months after the end of the recession and 21 months into his misnamed stimulus package the economy is suffering under a 9.6 percent unemployment rate. Obama’s recovery has worse unemployment than Bush’s recession at it’s peak. Now that’s what I call dumbing down success.