Odd that the collapse started almost the exact day Nancy picked up the gavel when Dubya had stolen the Presidency from Al Gaia Gore 6 years previously.
The disastrous policy was letting Barney Frank get his way on protecting FNMA and Freddie when Bush tried to reform them.
Funny that Barney had so much power when Republicans held both houses and the presidency.
Even funnier, some Republicans are so stupid, they still don't know that the economic meltdown happened when Wall Street was deregulated and the mortgage market moved from Freddie/Fannie to Wall Street where they gave away mortgages, bundled them, sold them overseas as securities, insured them, then collected the insurance money when they failed. This is why no economist is talking about Freddie/Fannie, but rather Wall Street. But once a Republican gets something planted in that tiny mind, it's there forever.
The same people believe that Saddam was connected to 9/11 and Iraq is now a "democracy".
Must be difficult having your delusions destroyed one by one.