I just couldn't help myself. After seeing the polls, and the reports... and knowing that so much is missing from much of the coverage...
The videos all together take about 10 minutes. And as a collection, they are pretty powerful. Do they say that McCain did everything that possibly could have been done? No, I'm sure that he could have introduces another bill in the Senate. I'm sure that he could have pressed harder.
The point is to simply state... emphatically... that the GOP introduced legislation to try to reign in Fannie and Freddie. The President also tried to stop the use of the Community Reinvestment Act to force banks into giving loans that were unsound... but that was also defeated along party line votes, multiple times.
Some of these events happened prior to Obama's entry to the Senate in 2005... some after. But to say that the GOP and John McCain were asleep at the switch is incredibly false. In reality, the Democrats, including Obama blocks attempts by Bush, the GOP and McCain to take actions that might have thwarted this crisis before it started.
Why isn't NBC reporting that?
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