Just a test, let me take a look and see who are the economic committees charis that related to financial dealings of congress and where policy, oversight and governance is coming from.
House Committee
http://www.house.gov/house/CommitteeWWW.shtml
Budget Committee-John M. Spratt, Jr. (D)
Energy & Commerce Committee- John D. Dingell (D)
Financial Services Committee- Barney Frank (D)
Joint Economic Committee - Charles Shumer (Chair) (D) Carolyn Maloney (Vice Chair) (D)
Ways and Means Committee - Charles (Taxes, what Taxes) Rangel (D)
Nice bit of partisanship when on government websites we have "Bush Watch" on the house committee website http://globalwarming.house.gov/ and a nice little slide show about economic data points during the bush administration on the house Budget Site http://budget.house.gov/. And we are expecting these people to work on the behalf of ALL the people regardless of party?
Senate Committees
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committees/d_three_sections_with_teasers/committees_home.htm
Appropriations Committee- Robert Byrd (D)
Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs – Christopher Dodd (D)
Budget Committee- Kent Conrad (D)
Commerce Committee – Daniel Inouye (D)
Energy Committee – Jeff Binghamm (D)
Finance Committee - Max Baucus (D)
So in short, there are your names and direction the finger needs to point at and American voted even more Republicans out of the senate and the house because we are the ones spending money uncontrollably? If the Democratic chairs can not manage all these rogue pseudo conservatives how can they control their own party that is famous for government waist? Bush was not the best president but we pulled out of major economic downturns after 9/11 only to collapse 2 years after dems took over congress. There is a connection and once everyone looks past what the media is feeding them they will understand who where the architects of this disaster
If I was lucky enough to have my own radio, tv show I would be shouting this on the roof tops. I would make a stinking 2 hour 20/20 special on this fact. I hear the names but I just do not see anyone continuously connecting these worthless Washington frauds until people realize this fact. Republicans have to sleep in the bed that we made but even if we do get our own house in order it will not stop the Democrats from throwing trash in our yard. We have to blitz the media now over the next few months to lay the blame where it belongs and it clearly belongs with the liberals chairing all these failed committees. We know the names, I want to show the faces, the proof and define their failures before Obama comes into office. If their backsides are feeling the heat from day one, it might, just might curb their appitite of destruction of democracy as we know it. That way we can keep their damage to a minimum so we can at least regain a few more seats in 2010. The only thing keeping this country from complete armagedon is a balanced government at this point. We have until January to make that point since John McCain failed to do so in his 2 year bid for the white house. I hate to say it but John McCain was part of the problem and we the people have to be the solution like we always wind up being.