This morning on Fox & Friends, during a discussion about how President Obama is (maybe!) a scary socialist, Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros enthusiastically agreed that George W. Bush set the country on the “slippery slope” to socialism.

Carlson declared that the “definition of socialism” is “advocating state ownership of industry” which is “kind of” what Obama did with the auto industry. Tantaros agreed, but said that “though it's not full-blown socialism, it's certainly a slippery slope that's on the road.”

But if we're to abide by this definition of “socialism,” then the person ultimately responsible for starting us down this “slippery slope” of the supposed “state ownership” of the auto industry is George W. Bush, and not Barack Obama.

President George W. Bush stepped in Friday to keep America's auto industry afloat, announcing a $17.4 billion bailout for GM and Chrysler, with the terms of the loans requiring that the firms radically restructure and show they can become profitable soon.

“If we were to allow the free market to take its course now, it would almost certainly lead to disorderly bankruptcy,” Bush said at the White House, in remarks carried live by the national broadcast networks. “In the midst of a financial crisis and a recession, allowing the U.S. auto industry to collapse is not a responsible course of action. The question is how we can best give it a chance to succeed.”

Whoops.