This is so telling; Bush sat down with Charlie Gibson for his final interview as president and said three very important statements:
About the economic slowdown-
“I’m sorry it’s happening, of course,” Bush said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC’s “World News,” which was airing Monday. “Obviously I don’t like the idea of people losing jobs, or being worried about their 401(k)s. On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we’re in. And if we need to be in more, we will.”
And the war in Iraq
“I think I was unprepared for war,”
And his economic legacy:
“I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so,”
So here comes the new GOP/Bushie talking point: That the crash happened because of the relaxation of regulation oversight during the Clintons. Those are the culprits! Blame them! While Bush was busy reinterpreting every bill he signed toward his looney view of life with his signing statements, it never occurred to the Bushies to reinterpret any Clinton financial bill for the last eight years. Bush hopes that history will see it his way. The reality is as we raffle thru the Bush files we will find that his well coordinated economic policy is actually the same used by the Vandals when sacking Rome: Rape, Pillage, and Plunder.
