Ah: I see that there was a Twitter exchange among Brad DeLong, James Pethokoukis, and others over why Republicans dont acknowledge that Ben Bernanke helped the economy, and claim credit. Pethokoukis who presumably gets to talk to quite a few Republicans from his perch at AEI offers a fairly amazing explanation: B/c many view BB as enabling Obamas spending and artificially propping up debt-heavy economy in need of Mellon-esque liquidation Yep: that dastardly Bernanke was preventing us from having a financial crisis, curse him.