That's a good link, and thank you for posting it.
"His role in determining monetary policy is limited to nominating the members of the Federal Reserve Board. His role in determining fiscal policy is limited to cheerleading budgets through Congress."
But Bush did nominate Bernanke, the current Fed Chairman. Each of his first five budgets was submitted to a Congress that his party controlled. And his adminstration has overseen both increases in both miltary spending and non-military discretionary spending, and cuts in revenue, which has produced huge budget deficits and accelerated the growth of the national debt. To the extent that he has influenced the economy (and again, I agree that the popular imagination generally overstates this), it has been in the wrong direction.
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