George wrote:

Hint, Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act into law. That removed
the last regulations that were enacted after the great depression to
prevent another one (taking the cop off the beat) . In general both
the red and blue teams have worked really well on behalf of the few.

Oh I agree that when the Dems are in power they do their share of damage,
that includes Clinton signing bills he should have vetoed, but let's not
forget who controlled Congress when those bills were created. Bush
inherited many issues, but somehow he found a way to make the consequences
worse than they had to be. Above all he chose to launch an ill-advised and
needless war that has killed well over 4,000 American soldiers and is
costing the taxpayer three billion dollars a week. Last week Dick Cheney
admitted to Bob Schieffer that Saddam never had the WMDs we heard so much
about prior to the invasion, but legalized torture is still okay by him.
Obama has a tough field position to play from, still, if he just avoids
mistakes on the scale of invading Iraq he's going to look like a more
competent President than Bush.