What are two in the Bush worth?

The countdown to President Bush's departure from the White House is at 18 or so and those "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers are starting to look a bit passe. As the president and Mrs. Bush pack up their personal items and prepare to move back to the Western White House (which won't be called that in another 18 days) national media is starting to reflect on the Bush administration. Only now that Bush is effectively done influencing policy are we starting to get a better look at what it's been like behind the twice-deadbolted doors of the Bush White House. Tell all books are surely to come, but for now, I suggest you settle for this piece from the Washington Post in which two senior Bush aides, Stephen Hadley and Joshua Bolten, reflect on their boss's two terms.

The most interesting -- and for my money the most telling -- part:

For his part, Bolten defended the administration's handling of the economy, save for what he describes as its ineffectiveness in obtaining early legislation reining in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "We pressed hard. I wished we had been more effective in that. We got resistance from the Congress," Bolten says. "That's not a partisan comment, because we got bipartisan resistance in Congress on the reform of Fannie and Freddie before it was too late.