Going on what you stated "Obama inherited an economy in recession, a recession that the Bush administration had been trying to slow down, once by sending Americans stimulus checks and a second time by bailing out Wall Street"

"Trying to slow down"...trying to slow down something that was started before him...ie...Clinton.

Clinton gave Bush a surplus not a deficit.
The stock market was at it highest.

Where are your facts that he gave this recession to Bush?

I wonder who the public will blame for the trillions of dollars on the spending spree the Democrats have been enjoying?

Spending designed to boost the economy. If it works they won't blame anybody for it. And that has the Republicans scared witless.

In theory "it takes money to make money".

In practice "it take specific spending".
When obama spends trillions of dollars on frivilous pet projects, and then claims that it is "for the economy"... that is a load of hores$%&*. Sorry for the language, but there is no other way to describe it.

Take Regan for example....
What happened when our country was in a recession...he cut spending and taxes and got us out.

He ended up raising taxes anyway. And this situation is far worse than a mere recession. Their should have been a mild recession in the early 2000s but masked by the housing bubble and 9/11 it got worse by applying Reaganomics plus massive waste and fraud in goverment, especially when it came to Iraq.

Also Reaganomics gave us the recession of 90-91, how quickly people forget about that one!