It's important that we know how we got into this mess. How is $700 billion not enough? Look at these links (cut and paste into your browser). Then tell me how can you vote for Obama? How?? Forget the social stuff--if abortion, marriage, military aren't enough for you...how can you trust him with our $$? (he voted party line 98% of the time--he's the SECOND most liberal Senator!) Take a look...
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html
This first link leads to an 8-year-old article by a remarkably prescient author who saw this crisis coming and tried to warn us.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3D6123BF932A2575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
This second link leads to an article which appeared in the New York Times in 2003, when the Bush administration called for more regulatory oversight to prevent the bankruptcy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related
This third link leads to 4-year-old video from C-Span showing the Democrats blocking all attempts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here you can see the antics they used to block all attempts at regulatory oversight.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102841.html
This fourth link leads to an article in The Washington Post, which recently published the details showing how Chris Dodd and the congressional Democrats are now playing dumb. They hope their tuned-out constitutes aren't aware of how congressional Democrats created this economic crisis.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html
This fifth link leads to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal providing a history of this scandal.
