Bush Nostalgia Time.!
Actually, I think Bush knew exactly what he was doing. Or at least, his advisers did. They knew the economy was going to take a dive of cosmic proportions, they just thought they could postpone it so the next Administration would have to deal with it. It must have been the same geniuses who came up with Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Well the next Administration certainly had to deal with it, but at least they won't have to take the blame for it--no matter how much history is rewritten.