Let's rewind your little history fabrication...shall we? Only this time let's look at what REALLY happened.
2008: With the economy in trouble, George W. Bush signs TARP into law to keep large financial institutions from collapsing.
2009: Barack Obama calls for an 800 billion dollar "Stimulus Plan". His Chief Economic Advisor, Christina Romer informs the country that without the plan they have proposed that the unemployment rate will go above 10% but if given the stimulus it will remain below 8%. With the country in a weakened economic condition and unemployment soaring to well over 10%, Barack Obama tells the Republican opposition that "elections have consequences...I won" and spends the rest of the year seeking passage of ObamaCare, Cap & Trade and Card Check. His stimulus plan gives 95% of Americans a small one time refund which allows Obama to claim he has kept his campaign promise to lower taxes for most Americans. The stimulus plan also keeps public sector workers from being laid off while millions in the private sector continue to lose jobs. Billions of dollars are spent on so called "green" jobs, including 535 million for Solyndra, whose largest private investors are large Obama fund raisers. Billions more are spent on "shovel ready" infrastructure jobs which the Administration says will put Americans back to work immediately.
2010: With the economy still showing weak growth and unemployment at above 9%, the Obama Administration gives the go ahead to the EPA to impose tough new greenhouse gas regulations, potentially adding billions in costs to American businesses. In April the Deepwater Horizon oil platform disaster occurs and the Obama Administration responds by imposing a moratorium on all new drilling permits, causing the loss of approximately 20,000 jobs in the Gulf Coast region. The NLRB sues Boeing over the building of a factory in South Carolina, backing unions based in Washington State and trying to prevent the brand new Boeing factory employing 1,000 workers from opening.
2011: With the deficit reaching 14 trillion dollars, credit rating agencies warn that deficit reductions of 4 trillion dollars are needed or they will be downgrading our credit rating. Taking a hard line against spending cuts, the Obama Administration brokers a compromise debt ceiling bill that imposes only 1.5 trillion in spending cuts to be determined at a later time. S&P responds by giving the US it's first credit downgrade in the history of the nation. At a Jobs Council meeting Barack Obama finally admits that "shovel ready jobs" weren't as shovel ready as he'd expected.
With falling poll numbers, Barack Obama promises a comprehensive jobs bill just as soon as he gets back from vacation. The "jobs bill" turns out to be a watered down version of the original stimulus bill, with more aid to public sector workers, infrastructure spending and unemployment benefit extensions all things the President knows Republican in the House will not vote for. This bill is seen as a political move more than an actual attempt at improving the unemployment situation, basically an attempt by Obama to paint the Republicans as obstructionists. In the meantime millions of Americans continue to be out of work. And in a perfect example of the "success" of his economic policies, the FBI raids Solyndra seeking financial records after the company declares bankruptcy and lays off it's workforce.
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