[brytlea]

Congress’s ploy to deflect the blame from themselves does seem to be working.

[Dead Corpse]

Only to the uneducated. Those paying attention remember Bush and the GOP Congress' attempt to swim against the Democrat tide on reigning in the housing nonsense.

Some of this crap has it's dirty little roots all the way back to the New Deal. It's a minor miracle that we haven't had more trouble than we are currently experiencing before this.

Going forward, it's looking like we'll follow the former Soviet Unions course. Our crash will be an order of magnitude worse than theirs simply because we had more GDP to begin with.