I haven’t read the article you suggest, but I seriously doubt President Bush ever ignored Cheney, he may not have made decisions that Cheney advocated at times. I missed President Bush moving left, when did that happen...or rather, what occurred that made you or others think he turned left? To save time...the bailout was not a left right thing, it was a reasonable (and correct) economic strategy. What Obama and the left did with it after the election was not Bush, it was Obama and the democrats.
“I haven’t read the article you suggest, but I seriously doubt President Bush ever ignored Cheney,...” Cheney was quoted as saying so.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on the bailout.
Good luck on your hunt.
“To save time...the bailout was not a left right thing, it was a reasonable (and correct) economic strategy.”
It was bad policy.
When companies make bad choices, they should be forced to face the consequences, just like a mom and pop grocery store.
FURTHER, the precedent was used by his successor for even more egregious violations of the free enterprise system.
A short spell of temporary pain is preferable to decades of misery.