Faun
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That's insane thinking. The problem didn't begin in 2007 when Democrats took over. By then, it was too late. The housing bubble began its descent in 2006. Oversight was needed years earlier. Republicans were in charge. Republicans get the blame.With all due respect, you're fucking nuts. YOU post a video of Barney Frank from 2003, and when I point out that he was but one member of the minority party (which he was in 2003), you shift to 2007 -- when as a member of the majority party, Barney Frank got a bill passed in the House to add some of the oversight we needed Republicans to pass years earlier. By 2007, it was too late, the housing market had already begun its descent that would lead to its ultimate demise.
With all due respect, Faun...George W. Bush was cautioning that the way we were running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac we were setting ourselves up for a major disaster and it was Barney Frank who pooh poohed that idea, repeatedly accusing Bush of exaggerating the potential problem. Bush sought tighter regulations and both Democrats AND Republicans resisted because giving people liar loans backed up by Federal loan guarantees was so politically popular.
Now here's my question for you.
Do you think Barack Obama would have had the courage to seek those politically unpopular but obviously needed reforms to Fannie and Freddie? Quite frankly he's never demonstrated that to me. I think he would have let the "game" that they were playing at Fannie and Freddie to continue along like usual.
This is the problem with "faun's" thinking. Bush repeatedly WARNED the democrats that trouble was looming. The Democrats IGNORED the warning. Alan Greenspan WARNED of impending disaster. The Democrats IGNORED the warning. Every time the republicans attempted to tighten regulations that would slow Barney Frank down, they were shot down at every turn. EVERY TIME. From 2002 through 2008.
There was no political will from EITHER side, to reign in FANNIE and FREDDIE. The republicans never had the votes to do a damn thing to stop the impending doom. It was just a matter of time until the whole thing came crashing down - which it did.
Bush takes the "lion's share" of the responsibility for not doing more. The democrats (who again, were in control of BOTH Houses) share the rest. Funny, however, that they have never accepted ANY of the blame for putting this country in it's current condition. NONE of the blame and, the mainstream media has conveniently "forgotten" about that fool Barney Frank.
Senator Barry Obama was seldom ever seen or heard from in those days. He was busy planning his "fundamental transformation" of the United States.