GigX,
in theory, and from what beck says, you are 100% correct.
However, it's been 10 months since stim passed, and the bad numbers seem to have bottomed out in terms of UE. If this happens, and people start getting confidence (then jobs) back, what we experienced in 2009 could be the worst of it. And in 2012, Obama can frame that as "the shit salad Bush left behind" and a more successful 2011/2012 as "HIS accomplishment".
It could work, politically. Of course he's full of shit, just as Bush and Clinton were. But politically it could work.