I've got no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is the false assertion that Democrats & Liberals NEVER supported Bush. It is simply not backed up by the evidence. FFS the Iraq war was passed with 50% Democrat support in Congress and so was the Patriot Act. It's VERY dishonest to claim that Democrats and Liberals 'never' supported Bush like the so many right wingers claim.
And I don't disagree with that.
But I believe, on average, barring the immediete months surrounding 9/11 it was typical American politics where most people on one side don't support the other sides guy. This is usually for a variety of reasons, some policy, some petty.
You can't tell me that, despite perhaps disagreements with the Iraq War, Democrats never throughout the next 7 years harped on petty, pointless, non-policy worthless things. From faking information about Bush's IQ that was so prevelant I had to print a factcheck thing out to disprove three random co-workers one day who swore to me Bush had a slow persons IQ, to the non-stop jokes all over the internet regarding "Bush-isms" and his speech, to the whole scathing debate about him reading to the kids that started cropping up after 9/11, to George Bush doesn't care about black people, and on and on and on.
Yes, for a short time during the one of the most prolific moments in American History Democrats and Republicans were united. For about 7 years and give or take some months however it was primarily politics as usual for BOTH sides.
There's nothing wrong with that, but you propping up this chart all the time as if the Republicans are insane for even giving any indication that for the most part Democrats were against Bush the amjority of his presidency is as annoying as those that say the Democrats NEVER supported Bush. You also have a tendancy to throw it out when people say that the Democrats weren't supporting Bush right out of the gate, which they WEREN'T.
That being the case, whether they did or not at one point due to a massive thing in our countries history is secondary to the OP's main point, which was that the Democrats someone gave Bush a "pass" at the start of his Presidency which just isn't the case.
While I'm sure there is a debate to be had on this, for me personally, I think the vast majority of Republicans would rally behind Obama immedietely if such a horrendous attack happened again barring it somehow being directly tied to something Obama did (for example, if say a Gitmo releasee ended up being in on it). I think there'd be some extreme ones that would be against him at first, and some other more extreme ones that would slowly in the weeks/months later start changing their tune...but that's about in line with Bush at 9/11.
However, no matter how many times I've heard people talk about this economic crisis as a "Disaster" and akin to 9/11 in the need to pass things...frankly, a long term economic crisis is never going to have the same affect on the psyche and attitudes of Americans like a massive terrorist attack.