They still boast of their fiscal prudence as a contrast to Mr Bush's recklessness, but worry that fiscal discipline is a less effective rallying cry when, despite huge budget deficits, America's interest rates remain extraordinarily low.
Wilshere was known to cry with frustration if his team-mates were unable to match his standards but that became less of an issue once Arsenal came calling.
Recently, we have seen top officials from the Bank of the England and the FDIC cry for simpler models due to the complexity of the existing ones essentially they want a less mathematically complex model with simple rules.