[Clock King]

Clinton had a Republican Congress, so they share the blame as well, for letting Clinton smooth talk them into it. Gasparino specifically cites the controversial Community Reinvestment Act, a popular conservative bogeyman

Twern't no boogeyman. They gave money away to people who couldn't pay it back. If the issue was red-lining and racial discrimination, then that is the issue that should have been addressed. But liberals (both on the Left and the Right) attack the symptoms, not the root problems, and always end up making the problem worse

[DJ MacWoW]

Clinton had a Republican Congress, so they share the blame as well,

Several years ago I looked this up and the expanded CRA took effect in Jan 1995. It was expanded and took effect just before/as the Republicans were seated in the House. They never voted on the expansion.

[knarf]

And IIRC, it was jimeh cahtah that initiated the CRA in the first place.

My personal thought, with nothing to prove I'm right is ... he was setting himself up for ex-president, and that habitat for humanity scam.