Are you not familiar with the way the economy works? It takes an average of ten years for the policies of government to trickle down to the rest of the economy. To place the blame on the Democrats who have controlled Congress only since January 2007--which is far LESS THAN TWO YEARS, by the way, since the problems with the economy started showing before October 2008--is simply disingenuous. One of the direct causes of the Wall Street meltdown is the ending of Glass-Stegall in 1999 by the passing of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which enabled the corporations on Wall Street to play games with investor money without oversight. When the economy took a downturn, which is what happens in business cycles, Wall Street was unable to cover all of its markers and turned to the government for help. Who controlled Congress on November 12, 1999, when the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was signed into law? The Republicans. Who is the Gramm of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act? Phil Gramm, former Republican senator from Texas, who most famously was Republican presidential candidate John Sidney McCain III's campaign co-chair and chief economic advisor and who said that the tanking economy was a "mental recession" and we were a "nation of whiners". The fact of the matter remains that the Republican partisan blame game cannot replace known facts about who did what and when. The biggest obstacle to the McCain Campaign has been the instant fact-checking ability of Joe Sixpack and Sally Soccermom to use the Internet to find out the reality of the accusations instead of just accepting them at face value and basing a belief system on them. What I find particularly amusing is that you Republicans smear Barack Obama with the "Socialist" label, while you fully and publicly support the looting of the U.S. Treasury for all manner of corporate socialist programs and bailouts. The Socialist Party has been proven to be the Republican Party for its activities in "redistributing the wealth" of ordinary Americans to anyone but the people who pay their fair share of taxes. JOIN XOMBA IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD!