The GOP and Bush administration certainly deserve a significant share of the blame for some of our current woes, but don't leave out the Democrat-controlled Congress that was in place the latter part of the Bush years. They played a significant role in the financial mess in which we find ourselves right now. I would also disagree somewhat about Bush's similarities with Obama. He was in no way the radical liberal that Obama is. He was however, a mushy moderate that refused to use the veto pen in many cases that needed it. That said, I believe we're far enough into the Obama presidency that blaming Bush for all our ill fortune simply isn't valid. Remember when anything bad happened when Bush was president, we heard that it "happened on his watch" and the implication was that it was his fault. Funny how we don't hear that phrase from the media any more - and when something bad does happen on Obama's watch, it's still Bush's fault.