“Then Bush should have fought against the bailout instead of for it.”
To be fair, those are two different issues. One could argue, along with Ben “Helicopter” Bernanke that once the mistakes had been made, it was to dangerous to let the market correct itself. I don’t agree with that argument, but it isn’ty logically fallacious.
I heard somewhere that the great depression brought on a method to keep a run on the banks from causing a worse problem, and that method was to flood them with money.