Leave him alone. He has an Ivy League degree.
Repeat after me: "There was no such thing as a surplus."
For whatever reason, people like to pretend that George W. Bush is solely responsible for the current mess. The facts don't add up. No matter who was elected President, the recession was going to happen. That doesn't absolve Bush, a fiscal liberal, of his responsibility in furthering the mess.
But there was no surplus. Even freakin' SNL understood that.