Indeed,<p>Despite all the ideological noise, one might actually find a tremendous amount of commonality in policy between the administrations.<p>It's worth noting also that a good portion of the Obama debit has involved <i>making good</i> the implicit guarantees which the Bush administration issued on Fannie etc debt.<p>I'm not in favor of this but it wasn't cooked up by the democrats out of whole cloth - it merely continued the direction things were already going in.