He taught America the gravy train is endless, that we can borrow forever.
He encouraged us to buy after 9/11, rather than allow the terrorists to defeat us. We overdid it.
With the bailouts and massive gov contracts he prepped american for Obama;s “they got theirs, now you will get yours”.
I agree with you about the bailouts, but they, and the economic problems they addressed, resulted from the housing mess that the Democrats helped create (OK, and the GOP failed to stop).
He didnt ring the fire-drill on the phony boom because he wanted credit. Democrats wanted affordable housing but they had nothing to lose.
I saw all those videos before the election. I said more than once, Barney Frank and democrats had nothing to lose everything to gain. And as Barney is able to say as he does now, Bush had his own congress in 2003.
In 2008 Bush got on TV and demanded 700B from congress. But it was too late. He did not demand more regulation in 2003. He had other priorities.
Democrats also have him on the deficit because him and Cheney pushed for massive spending. Sure democrats came along in 2006 and racked up more, on the GWB credit card. And the bailouts too. It worked so good Obama will try to blame 2009 spending on GWB too, to get us ready for big tax increases.