In The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, published September 17, 2007, Greenspan rails against President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the Republican-controlled Congress for abandoning the Republican Party's principles on spending and deficits. Greenspan's criticisms of President Bush include his refusal to veto spending bills, sending the country into increasingly deep deficits, and for putting political imperatives ahead of sound economic policies. Greenspan writes, "They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose” the 2006 election