Actually shorting anything from the clinton/rubin fueled dot bomb period would have made anybody a lot of money.
But you already knew that and deecided to blame Bush.
Some of those "dot bombs" are leading the current recovery. GWB was handed a slight economic problem. He turned it into a huge one. Thankfully, we are heading in the right direction after GWB saw that his economic plans could cost him reelection. He started giving fewer economic speeches and let others form most of the second tax cut.