Bush also inherited the banking/mortgage mess, due to the Democrats (Bill Clinton) and his affirmative action policy towards relaxing credit standards and handing out mortgages to anyone who could breathe, and had a 500 fico score. Bush tried on more than one occasion to curb the Clinton "Sub Prime" lending policy, but the idiot Democrats in congress wouldn't get on board. John McCain also introduced legislation to stop sub-prime lending, but once again, the democrats wouldn't get on board.
Clinton could have cared less about the decision to put our economy on this destructive path, nor did he care that the 9/11 hijackers were coming in and out of the country at their leisure, planning the final stages of the terror attacks on America, while on his watch. He was too busy fucking that true lipstick wearing pig named Lewinsky.
Nice to see he had his priorities straight.