Yeah, right he could have changed the world -- thrown all the scumbags out of DC -- gotten rid of all the lifetime bureaucrats that are protected by civil service/unions -- he had the backing of the Congress, right? You know the guys who were feeding at the trough and didn't want anything to change? Yeah, they all supported him. Clinton fired virtually every US Attorney and no one batted an eyelash. Bush fired a few and it was a national media scandal rising to the level of impeachment.
And by the way, he was two years ahead of McCain in trying to clean up Fannie/Freddie -- where was McCain then? Bush tried to eliminate the presidential appointees on the board -- the ones who walked away with millions after creative accounting episodes -- but no love there, no action, no political will.
You can hang a lot of things on Bush -- Fannie/Freddie isn't one of them.
I didn’t try to hang Fannie and Freddie on Bush. But the Democrats are going to try to. And it looks like McCain’s current strategy is to help them.
It’s the wrong strategy for McCain, because that is playing defense, its not moving forward. He needs to instead go on offense against 0bama, the people 0bama surrounds himself with, the Clinton administration, and the do-nothing Congress of the past 2 years.