But Bush may pay for not having focused on the most stimulative tax cuts because people particulalry with Democratic urging will view the job losses as a Bush failure. While his cuts will not have caused the losses his tax cuts favoring the rich will have done very little to counter the losses because they were long term not short term stimulative. The only direct link is that Bush could have used the money he gave back to the wealthy for more direct stimulus. Since the cuts were imagined and promoted by Bush prior to the recession it appears he never did anything more than use the recession as an excuse to push them. Perhaps they should have spent a little time analyzing the best stimulous instead of just ramming through an ideology based cut.

Regards,
Mark