Oh My! Who Are You Going To Blame NOW, Obama??!!

I really feel like I may be throwing myself in amongst the wolves here, but I do have a question or two. Bush submitted this plan in 2003, if memory serves me correctly wasn't Congress still Republican controlled in 2003? Every bill that was proposed in regards to this, by both Democrats and Republicans that year never made it past committee. I fail to see how Chris Ddd could've blocked anything that McCain proposed in 2005, considering the Congress was still Republican controlled. It is very unclear what happened to this bill when it got to the senate, whenther it's failure to move was Republican leadership or Democrat filibuster threats. Filibuster may have been a possibility in 2005, but clearly not in 2003-2004, all the Republicans had to do was move the bill past committee and get it to the floor, all they had to do was vote among party lines, and that clearly didn't happen. It's an example of failed leadership. And honestly what does Obama have to do with a bill that was proposed in 2003? He was still a member of the Illinois State Legislature at that point in time. Not anywhere near Congress. Didn't Nancy Pelosi (who I'm not a huge fan of) did propose a bill in July 2007, HR-3221, that was a "bill to provide needed housing reform and for other purposes", it granted the Federal Housing Finance agency "supervisory and regulatory authority over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the federal home loan banks (enterprises)". It became law in December 2007. So what happened to it? I think what's really being lost here is that those in charge at Freddie and Fannie falsified their records, and betrayed an implied trust. I'm not so sure this mess can be blamed on any one political party.

There was a shell game alright, and it was being run by the democrats. Barney Frank bears a lot of responsibility for that, as do many other liberals. They should be removed from office and face ethics investigations over their duplicity. Obama has been taking campaign contributions from these guys, and has several of them as his advisers, which tells me that he is surrounding himself with thew wrong people. He has proven himself time and again to be clueless on the economy... and yet he is blaming the problems on Bush and claiming that McCain would be more of the same. It seems like Bush and rthe republicans were right, and that the democrats were playing political games with our future. Well, guess what... they were wrong and it should now blow up in their faces. They need to take responsibility for their own bad decisions and mistakes.

What an embarrassment for Obama!!!! How will get get out of this latest gaffe. Flip flop again? He must have lousy advisers on his team if they do not do some research before letting their boss open his mouth and put his foot in it.