The financial calamity was born of machinations set forth by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 which forced banks to write high risk loans under threat of crippling penalties; these were loans that would not have otherwise been written if the free market were to freely operate without detrimental regs and forced mandates. Most of the loans were long established before GWB had been elected.
To blame the current Constitutional crisis on President George W. Bush and Rove is beyond preposterous.
I'm not going to blame Obamacare on Bush. That would be stupid. Obamacare is squarely the fault of Obama and any Democrats and RINOs foolish enough to jump on his bandwagon.
That said, the epic failure that was the Bush-Rove "compassionate conservatism" (aka Socialism cloaked in conservatism) certainly helped create the conditions under which Obama and the Democrats rose to power.
“To blame the current Constitutional crisis on President George W. Bush and Rove is beyond preposterous.”
Bush and Rove did many things that pissed off liberals, but they weren’t the ones that voted for him.
Bush and Rove destroyed the Republican brand by infuriating conservatives with the CFR, Medicare drugs, pushing for amnesty for illegals, TARP, and never defending himself against liberal criticism. That’s quite a few abuses to the ones that elected him, and made many angry with the GOP.
When more than half the country (liberals and conservatives) is angry with the GOP, that definitely hurts their chances at staying in power.