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RE :”More recently we've witnessed the creation of new historical narrative about the financial crisis of 2008. The perceived history, eagerly peddled by liberals and Democrats, is that the crash of 2008 was the result of Wall Street greed. It was unregulated capitalism that brought us to the brink of financial meltdown, the Democrats insisted. And they codified their manufactured history in a law, the Dodd-Frank Act, that completely avoided the true problem..... “Reckless Endangerment” includes the Clinton administration's contribution to the home-ownership catastrophe. Clinton had claimed that dramatically increasing homeownership would boost the economy, instead “in just a few short years, all of the venerable rules governing the relationship between borrower and lender went out the window, starting with ... the requirement that a borrower put down a substantial amount of cash in a property, verify his income, and demonstrate an ability to service his debts.”

And Bush bragged about his home ownership programs for poor minorities with bad credit making it easier for the banks to make risky loans eventually leading to massive forclosures in poor hispanic areas Arizona and Nevada and Florida as well as flipping in those areas. Republicans hands are not clean in this either although neither party gets it right.

It was : Low interest rates by the Fed for an extended period, removal of the down payment requirement, change in capital gains taxes on homes law (encouraging flipping), home ownership promotion for the poor by BOTH(yes) parties, and yes a blind eye by everyone because everyone loves a housing prices bubble party, they just hate the resulting hangover, and then try to fix it with more drinking in the morning.

Republicans hands are not clean in this either although neither party gets it right.

As Mona said:

In "Reckless Endangerment," Morgenson and Rosner offer considerable censure for reckless bankers, lax rating agencies, captured regulators and unscrupulous businessmen. But the greatest responsibility for the collapse of the housing market and the near "Armageddon" of the American economy belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to the politicians who created and protected them. With a couple of prominent exceptions, the politicians were Democrats claiming to do good for the poor

Once the Democrats had the policies in place, do you think the GOP had anywhere near the power to reverse it?