The Blame Game

Thursday, September 25, 2008

I wonder how pronounced the blame game would be if we weren’t in the home stretch of a presidential campaign? It looks to me like Bill Clinton is at least hedging his bet on Obama. If not, he’s running a stealth campaign to make sure he’s not the next president.

The truth is, there are people in the congress, and the senate in particular, who saw this coming and tried to head it off before it became a crisis. Who? Why people like Elizabeth Dole and, oh yes, that guy from Arizona, What’s his name? Yes, yes, that’s it: John McCain. The record speaks for itself. Republicans have been trying to get a handle on exactly this kind of thing for years.

Bill Clinton said it, and he’s right, well, at least partly right. When asked about this his comments about the congressional democrats record on this he stated they were responsible for: “resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac”

Wow! That may be the first time I agree with Bill Clinton on a major issue. Although, I am reprieved by his insistence to include himself in that. Actually, I don’t think he did diddly squat. If he had, we might have been able to get something done back then. This is becoming a disaster in every way. Damn! Is it too late to draft Newt Gingrich for President?

We the people have to take some of the blame for this as well. If you hire a bunch of chimps to guard your banana plantation you deserve what you get. Can we finally have a moratorium on hiring lawyers to make the laws? I don’t know about you, but this seems like a conflict of interest to me. We don’t have to shoot the lawyers, just stop hiring them to write the laws. Of all people, they need to be bound by those laws the most, not in charge of making them. Here’s a case in point.

Hot Air has a couple of good items on this here and here, (Hat Tip: Instapundit). Paterico is Pontificating, RightVoices has some excellent input, Stuck on Stupid has more on the Clinton angle, and Tammy Bruce has a post that points at some really stupid political activities.