The painfully faltering U.S. economy hasn’t come close to producing the new jobs President Obama promised, which explains why GOP Congressional leader John Boehner gained traction with demands that the administration sack its top economic officials.

Vice President Biden responded by saying the nation should go forward, not backwards, but when two-thirds of us think America’s on the wrong track, why we should we continue in that direction?

The choice isn’t between Obama-nomics and Bush-anomics—we need more fiscal accountability than either of the last two presidents provided. Americans want new directions, like the tough-austerity measures that worked well in Germany and are beginning to work in Britain. Democrats express admiration for European nations, but when it comes to wasteful stimulus spending and gushers of red ink the US could learn from most of our trans-Atlantic allies.