(03-04-2019, 03:55 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(03-04-2019, 02:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: A symptom of intellectual dishonesty is the straining out of a gnat for the sole purpose of using the gnat to blame others for one's own problems.

Democrats led Congress to override four vetoes from 2007 to 2009.  Republicans helped, of course, because Democrats did not have the 2/3 majority required.  Nothing significant happened those two years without the consent of both parties.

Most of the groundwork for the economic collapse was laid in years where Republicans had full control and didn't need Democrats to cooperate with them.

Republicans never had a filibuster-proof Senate, not since at least far back as FDR. So "full control" is a lie.

Bush identified the problem years earlier, but could not get congress to overturn the law requiring mortgage loans to people with bad financial status.

There was more collegiality and respect for the system then. Senators would vote for cloture even when they did not like the bill and had no intent of voting for the actual bill. They saved their filibuster for stuff that they really found outrageous, not just disagreeable. Nowadays they tell us that everything is outrageous though.

That said I don't think you have your history right regarding subprime mortgages. I don't think Bush made any kind of push to change those laws and regulations. And he could have changed the regulations mostly on his own. He did not do so.

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