Well, actually I don't have to defend anyone./QUOTE]
Right...so why have integrity when you can be lazy, since no one will hold you to account for anything?
The collapse came about two years after American staffed Congress with a democratic majority.
So then what legislation passed by that Democratic majority that Bush
signed into law caused the collapse? It's not like the Democrats removed leveraging restrictions for Wall Street banks. It's not like Democrats forced GSE's to purchase risky subprime loans (Clinton's HUD actually banned them from doing so in 2000, Bush and the Conservatives reversed that in 2004). It's not like Democrats invoked an OCC rule to wipe out state protections against predatory lending. It's not like Democrats touted tax cuts as being responsible for the growth of the housing market in 2004. It's not like Democrats instructed Bush's regulators to cease enforcing lending standards. And it's not like Democrats were pretending there was no bubble when there was. That was alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Conservatives.