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!
Bush did not propose spending ten or thirty billion to help minorities buy homes, he proposed 440 billion!
With a Repub congress, Bush had the deficit down to 160B. It was after Pelosi got in we started to have major problems. Then in Fall of '08 when the markets realized that a socialist President was about to take power the whole thing folded.