Not gonna flame: it’s a recognition that while GWB did a whole lotta good things, he left us set up for Obama in so many ways.
Fair enough.
I've been thinking about that lately -- esp. the TARP thing. It is possible to my way of thinking, and recollecting the events which I followed closely from the financial services industry perspective, that he was discharging his duties as he saw them as president; that to hamstring the effort to shore up the system (whether one agrees with that effort or not) would have been a shameless dereliction of his duty. I'm sure he knew quite well who was coming into office but after all, that person had been duly elected and the American people were about to get what they wanted.
I mean to say that his oath of office and his ethic left him no choice.