Actually, Bush was attending to our national security...the main job of the CIC.
As for reforming housing...do you really think it could have been done with the Dems saying he was bigoted against minorities at every turn? You have to have members from the other party on board to make a radical change in the economy. Not to mention Nazi Pelosi taking over the purse strings in '06.
How was Bush attending to national security when he proposed that we spend 440 billion to help minorities buy homes?
Bush was good on security. But one of his first acts, IIRC, was to pledge something like ten or thirty billion in African related aid; then there was Medicare Part D, which didn’t help Medicare’s financial status. He didn’t use the veto pen at all until 2006!