It obviously was not our Republican national leaders from 2001. Obama is far less dangerous than those folks who betrayed us. Remake the party, then take the government back from the dems.
The dems always looked at the national debt growth as a measure of success/failure of GOP admins, yet when Obama spends the US into bankruptcy it gets ignored. Similarly, the dems other economy-killing policies, "energy prices necessarily need to skyrocket" for one, is taking the US economy into the toilet. We need cheap energy to compete globally. Then add in UHC and C+T and some of their other schemes, and we have a "jobless recovery", which translates to a global depression.
Obama simply doesn't know what to do to fix the economy. He's trying to do too many things and he's messing everything up.
IMHO Romney has the skill sets to put the US on the "right track".