How so? Simultaneously as the .com bubble finally burst, 9/11 and the biggest financial/corporate scam (enron) in the history of the United States, unemployment jumped. Bush had only passed one]/i] economic policy by 2003, which was a tax break, so what else are you attributing to the spike in unemployment? Clinton's success was almost singularly based upon .com bubble. Note I say almost. You could have put just about any president in office during that period and the unemployment rate would have dropped like a rock. Bush's unemployment rate did lower because of one reason: More people working minimum wage jobs. Good times.