Maybe you've forgotten a few things along the way? It's easy for that to happen when a succeeding administration makes efforts (and sometimes succeeds) in trying to undo the work of a former president from the other party.
Be that as it may, there are things that the Obama administration (and sometimes in concert with efforts by the outgoing Bush '43) did in aid of recovery from the global financial crash that were an expenditure of not only Treasury funds but political capital. The latter can take way more courage than the former sometimes, and the Dems are ofen enough way better at it on behalf of ordinary Americans than are the Rs with their godblasted trickle-down theories on how to, uh... hang onto what they have?
Financial recovery and reform: not all of the Dodd-Frank stipulations have been removed or weakened, despite the Rs' efforts to do so. And the passing of the $790B recovery act in 2009 was a heavy lift that paid off big time in added jobs and rapid recovery from the flatlined global economy of 2008. It included the beginnings of what is now a burgeoning effort to focus energy-related sectors of the economy more on renewables and tech to move and store those new forms.
Affordable Care Act. OK it has warts galore. But Americans want it fixed, not repealed and made that clear to Congress despite the Rs trying to repeal it about 80 times. This was and is a huge deal. A foot in the damn door, FINALLY. If there is someplace where Dem saints and sinners have a rogues' gallery in heaven, the portraits of Reid and Pelosi will be there.They made as many enemies as collected friends en route to getting that bill passed. But they forged ahead anyway.
Consumer-friendly banking regulations regarding credit cards: remember the days when a bank could just jack up the rate and you found that out when opening your next statement and maybe some little slip of paper fell out with a notice drawing your attention to it? Gone along various w/ exorbitant fees as of 2009, with the Credit Card Reform and Disclosure act.
Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011. More domestic inspections, direct recalls, inspection of imported foreign foods.
Broadband - initialized new push for expansion into low-income rural areas by moving $8 billion out of landline subsidies to the carriers, recognizing advent of more prevalent cellphone usage.
Claims Resolution Act, 2009 - over $5 billion for settlements to native American and Black farmers cheated by government handling of loans and outright exploitation of natural resource royalties.
I could go on but anyone can look it up. It pays to do that now and then, when becoming despondent over the fact that the Republican Party isn't even "the party of NO" any more, rather figures it's time to cheat their way back into power and become the one-party front for some strongman yet to emerge from the debacle that is the cult of Donald Trump.
What a hill for a once principled party to die on, eh? Unfortunately they're trying to take the whole country down with them... but the Dems should not buy into the idea that there are no actual differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to policies and attempts to implement them.
It's true that governance tends to run to "business as usual" no matter whins elections, but that's only true with big ticket legislative efforts, where industry lobbies sink hundreds of millions of dollars into resisting anything that cuts into profit margins. Nonetheless, every single day there are improvements being angled for and put into practice by Democrats AND by Republicans who still understand that there's more community than disunity out there among plain Americans. In a community of real people (distinct from the bubbles of DC politics and social media), a policy of obstruction is not a vote getter. People want stuff done. It's why the infrastructure bill passed, whittled down though it was.
So... there's only so far that the Republicans can go with their "party of NO" routine, and they know it: it's the one thing that has stayed their hand somewhat during their voter-suppressive legislation efforts and gerrymandering use of map-redraws. They understand that the worst thing they can do is stand out so starkly as obstructive against a Democratic adminstration that they cause a massive turnout of Dems in the midterms... since the Rs are unsure how their voter suppression may affect their own piece of the electorate.
The really quiet part out loud is nobody really knows what traditional conservatives will do in the upcoming elections.