As an ideologue, I see that you missed the point entirely. In addition to Bush's irresponsible spending coupled with inappropriate tax cuts, he allowed the financial system to leverage itself into the stratosphere. He should have listened to Buffett's warning of financial weapons of mass destruction (unregulated derivatives) and he should have listened to Clinton's outgoing administration's dire warning of an imminent attack by bin Laden, possibly using aircraft. Instead, the Bush administration remained inert and allowed one catastrophe after another, one physical the other financial, only waking up after the fact to speak into the bullhorn. And now you wish to pin the blame on the guy who's trying to clean up both messes? Do you really not understand the scope of the leverage and, therefore, damage caused by the unregulated derivatives to the overall financial system and, therefore, potentially to national security? The participation in unregulated credit default swaps that caused so many "sophisticated" institutional investors to buy securitized junk mortgage instruments, believing they were fully insured against losses, thereby loading up to the hilt? Are you really that fucking stupid?
