Bush has done so much damage to conservatism and free markets. It’s a shame really. What’s really frustrating is that people can’t see the similarities between what Obama is doing and what Bush did to the economy (Obama is worse, but that doesn’t mean Bush was practicing laissez faire capitalism).
You could name a lot of other Republicans as well. Any Republican that offers some BS bipartisan counter offer to this health care nonsense should be booted out of office. The federal government has no authority to stick it's nose into this matter.
Just look what GWB and republican congress did to take credit for a bi-partision energy bill with ethanol, then when gasoline prices went up (food prices too even when there were dips in oil prices) both republicans and capitalism got the blame. He gave democrats the talking points “We tried it your way. We tried drilling and free markets, now lets try taxes.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Energy_Act_of_2007