Barney Frank was the one who started pushing back in 1995 to make more loans to questionable borrowers under threat of regulating banks even more.
And when the repeal of Glass-Stengal passed, the republicans had control of congress, but guess who SIGNED it into law, the lefts poster child Bill Clinton.
This is why so many people here have an issue with you Trey. You don't trust republicans and defend democrats. Most on this board don't trust any of them. They are exactly alike.
Just like when Arlen Specter switched parties, he was welcomed with open arms by the dems after years of republican election victories. He switched because he would not win a primary fight as a republican, nothing more, nothing less than that. None of the pols have a spine nor a shred of respect for those who put them in office and that is why there is so much unrest about what is going on. The sleeping dog finally woke up.