Yeah he bailed on that later.
My issue with that reversal on TARP is that he didn’t say it was a terrible idea. He said, “they did it wrong.” He’s okay with government doing something unconstitutional—as long as it does it well. It’s sort of the Nixon principle that the Great Society is fine as long as we do it as efficiently and cheaply as possible. That’s not conservatism. It’s good/big government RINOism.