I always laugh when I hear such selective accounting take place for FY2009.  

As if the president is a king anyway.  You need to look at the party in majority power (i.e. which party controlled at least 2 of the 3 house making policy: WH+Senate+House).  And Dems had already held that majority for 2 years by then.  The whole "which POTUS owns what part of FY2009" is silly, because it was all a Dem majority anyway.