Bush had bigger problems on his plate than people who need to buy cell phones instead of pay for their insurance, he had a war to fight with people killing our civilians. Bush's fault was not that he fought the war, but how he managed it. Or, more specifically, how he managed the people managing it. He did a horrible job there.
The Dems and Obama have, and ultimately had, no such problems. Nearly all the hard decisions, progress/failure, capabilities, and cost had been done by Bush. What the Dems, after 2 years controlling Congress before Obama even was elected, and thus fully prepared for the incoming Messiah in terms of agenda, needed to do was pass UHC - nuke style. If that meant they had to go nuclear against some unwilling Dems that were more moderate, then really, so be it. They failed. They spectacularly failed. Their failure will (and really, already has) cost more lives than Iraq+Afghanistan ever cost us. It will dwarf that, by orders of magnitudes.
Comparing these two failures isn't even close: While Bush managed poorly and cost us a small few thousand military lives, plus $1-$3T depending how you look at it, the Dems and Bummer by their weakness and 'OMG lets pass something so Bummer will have an accomplishment and We'll look good too!' strategery have F'd our entire civilian population long term. Que the irony of the Thanks Obama! memes being applied here...
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