The people who nuked the deal are the people who do not trust the
administration and who, in addition to listening to the voters, were
able to hear what various economists are saying. Of course, it helps
to be very conservative or very liberal. Thank heaven, there was
enough independent thinking this time to not create another Iraq in
the financial world.
Ed
On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
News stories I'm seeing make it sound like it was the conservative
Republicans who nuked the deal.
With Barney Frank as lead representative on the bill, in the end it
was
apparently, in some sense, a Democratic initiative(?) or at any rate
it
was certainly bi-partisan.