[alstewartfan]

Well, Bush pushed through the repugnant TARP, claiming that he had to destroy capitalism to save it, or some such bilge. And GOP leaders voted with him.

[drypowder]

Bush took a page out of the Clinton play book with that statement. As Butch Reno stated; they had to destroy Mt. Carmel at Waco TX to save it, killing 86 people I the process including women and children. Bush's TARP Wall Street bank bailout didn't save anything. It made a few banksters much wealthier and kept a few from going to jail but the financial collapse still looms. TARP just postponed it until the US government gets better prepared to defend itself against the pissed off American people.