Stabs like this at the Bush administration make it hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously. To assert that the Bush administration is to blame for

Stabs like this at the Bush administration make it hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously. To assert that the Bush administration is to blame for the credit crisis is laughable, assuming that's what the author meant by the end of prosperity. It was decades of poor economic policy that reached a critical point. I don't particularly love Bush, but jokes about him are cliché