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DomKen nice try but the point of my posting who's been in charge was to give some perspective, people were cioting 10 years of control by Republicans like it was a century or something and as if the Democrats had been so put out and so uninvolved in creating the conditions that lead to today.

not only the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problems but also deficit spending, and other government effects on the economy.

As I said Reid was either an active part of why things got bad or he was asleep at the wheel.
He can't hide behind the It wasn't me idea when he has been Majority Leader for that many years. He wasn't just along for the ride, he was a LEADER. and the attempts to cast himself as a victim of circumstance just makes me laugh. Almost as hard as I laugh at you trying to defend him.

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I guess he was an absentee SML for the last two years of the Bush administration.

So it was Bush`s fault ?  Or does GW get a pass and the Senate carry the can ?

Nobody gets a complete pass, but the Democrat controlled Congress and committees control the agenda, not the POTUS.

The housing bubble peaked in 2005. Before the 2006 election and therefore before the Democrats controlled either house. Please stop trying to make up your own facts.

Nice try, but wrong yet again. The decline in prices started in 2006, and didnt really take off until 2007. More importantly most of the bad paper was issued in 2006 and 2007, when the Dems blocked Bush's efforts to rein in Fannie/Freddie and the banks.