Not really. What I am saying is that in the face of near economic collapse and foreign policy failure, Repubs show no inclination to acknowledge that such is a product of their own making and ideology, preferring, instead, to now obstruct remedial measures, while laying on their "majority" bullshit by the boatload.
You offered that claim yourself, earlier in this thread.
They claim govt is incompetent, and by their own actions attempt to make it so, claim anybody attempting the opposite to be traitors. Their loyal followers define that as patriotism, when it's nothing of the sort.
Part of the blame is certainly the Pubbies', specifically the removal of regulations specifically designed to isolate a financial melt-down in one major sector (investment banking or mortgage banking) from taking down another major sector. Part of the blame is also the Dems, for incessantly raising the GSE's mandate to subsidize those too poor to own homes in a particular area. That's been going on since Carter's era, largely without anything more than temporary plateaus in increases. HUD's mandates and Democrat policies (leadership of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were solid mainstream Democrats) drove the GSEs to abandon such sensible policies as verifying employment, income, credit history. Once the GSEs stopped requiring those metrics to be verified in order to buy bundled loans, banks and especially mortgage companies began writing any loans that vaguely qualified as low income or disadvantaged buyer because they were high profit and no risk - the GSEs were buying up all they could get, conformity be damned, attempting to meet their legal quotas under their HUD mandate. The crash was clearly seen by 2004-2005 - even Bush saw it. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd led the partisan fight to defend the GSEs, thus preventing the problem from being fixed. There is no guiltless party here, the Dems set the crash in motion and the Pubbies not only didn't fix it, but made sure it was not merely a crash but a potential depression - and then the Dems again, making sure the problem wasn't fixed at the last possible moment.
You can also make a valid case that Republicans borrowing and spending like drunken sailors helped crash the economy. However, you cannot make that case and then conversely claim that Democrats borrowing and spending like drunken sailors on crank is the cure.
One thing's for sure though, we'll see in November who has the majority at the moment. Given that Obama isn't being asked to campaign even in Illinois (which by the way pays higher bond rates than Mexico) and Chicago, I think you will be disappointed.
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