Can you blame a guy for trying to look at the bright side...I mean what little there is. Bushco has seemed bent on getting us into an economic rut the size of the Grand Canyon and they have done this...no doubt about it. I agree, they saw the chance to put petal to metal and they took it and so from their view the Bush presidency has been a smashing success and has nearly crippled the next president. This next president will spend all his time reacting to each shockwave of the Bush Bomb and will never really find firm footing because of this I'm afraid. Of course it'll take more than a president to fix this, we will have to want to fix it as a nation. This means right & left mean less than just doing what's right. I think we have a lot of people that do not understand this.