Now There's a Recession!

During the financial crisis last week, Bush only came out of his bin Ladenesque cave (i.e., the White House) for two minutes  then 11 minutes to address the nation.  In the interim, he offered a plan that took up an entire 2 1/2 pages and asked for $700 billion.  Now, in a 14 minute speech, he says the entire economy could collapse and we could be in a deep recession.

Is this an attempt to save his economic legacy or feed his deregulation cronies with our money...or both???