The Rat Media that said BOOSH SUCKS BOOSH IS HOLDING BACK THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT ETC.
President Bush DID get backlash over REFUSING to grant the bailouts. They didn’t come immediately. President Elect Pantywaist threw a famous temper tantrum and stormed out of one of the meetings.
The writing was on the wall. Want to go to Hell? Far be it from Bush to stand in the way and take flack for trying to prevent it another 2 weeks when he was already catching flack as it was.
No excuse for doing the wrong thing. (And giving Obama an opening for deceptive claims about his slow budget increases over the Bush baseline.)