It was both parties that failed the American people, but to focus purely on what a party did neglects the action which lead to failure. If we could temporarily forget about partisan politics and concentrate on policy issue, then we could actually have a debate. And the action which lead to disaster was federal support and intervention in the housing market, which encouraged certain companies to give bad loans with federal protection given in order to help poorer people who shouldn't have gotten loans. It isn't a certain party that got us into this crisis, it's a dangerous policy of government intervention and involvement. That's the real issue, not party politics.

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I find it extremely ironic that many of those who claimed that Bush was the worst president in history claim that Obama is possibly the greatest thing to ever happen. If it is policy you are concerned with, then Obama is simply more of the same. More spending, more deficit, more foreign involvement, more government intervention, and more government regulation. Only a true partisan would claim that Obama represented change as the only change is the party he's from.

Again you must not have an understanding of how our government works, when policies and laws are passed generally speaking they do not go into effect immediately. So with this general knowledge one could assume that it is entirely to early to see major changes that have been made in Congress.

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I couldnt agree with you more, however several members on this forum from both the right and the left, will continue to state that it was either sides fault. And this very thing is what is killing the American people. We need a solution to the crisis not more partisan bull(*)(*)(*)(*).

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So you are saying for two years the congress knew nothing about the economy? McCain told them in 2005 that something needed to be done about F&F did they do anything? Don't you think any government should act before the crisis.