And that was after both a mild late term Clinton recession on top of 9/11. I don't recall Bush complaining about Clinton nor moaning about how bad 9/11 was affecting his economic policies. What I remember was the lying, loud mouthed liberals complaining and talking up a recession in Bush years when mostly jobs were fairly plentiful and tax cuts DID help the economy!
President Bush was an honorable man. It would never occur to him to whine, lie, blame, or dishonor America.
“What I remember was the lying, loud mouthed liberals complaining and talking up a recession in Bush years..”
Yep. They gave him until around late February of 2001 to start pinning the recession he INHERITED on him. They gave him a month. One month! The word ‘inherited’ was completely removed from their vocabulary.
They did the same thing for Clinton. The man inherited a recovered economy and gave him credit for it as soon as he sat his fat ass down in 1993.
They still complain about Reagan’s two lean years and call it “Reaganomics”, but it turned around by 1983-84. However, they have no problem giving FDR 10+ years to get the economy to turn around (no thanks to FDR that it did turn around).