If you must publish a vanity blaming the current financial meltdown on the Democrats, then at least read a little about Iceland and understand that the Democrats did not force Iceland into leveraged buyouts of Europe. They didn't force European banks to buy MBS at 48bp above treasuries because someone rated them AAA. They didn't force Greenspan to lower rates, and they didn't force Japan to keep theirs at 0.5% (carry trade unwinding rapidly now). All those factors above created the environment to make bad economic decisions, first mortgage rates that were too low to reflect borrower risks, but then...