My how short some memories are. Just a short refresher. Bush proposed the bailout and he wanted the whole thing to do done in a three page bill with virtually no strings attached.

"Obama's predecessor created the $700 billion Wall Street bailout--to avert a total meltdown of the U.S. financial markets.



The 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) & Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was signed into law by former President George W. Bush on Oct. 3, 2008.



The $700 million Wall Street bail out was engineered by the Bush administration.

​It wasn't popular. But it worked.
"It was convenient for some people out there to make a case that [TARP] was not necessary," Bush told RealClearPolitics last November, "but they weren't charged with the responsibility of dealing with a depression."