let us just remember that if some of the more outspoken critics on the right who were livid about Harriet Miers, outraged about Dubai and beside themselves over immigration had paused to ponder the subprime lending situation, things might have been different.,/i>
The Wall Street Journal has been running editorials about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for years. Now maybe you are referring to conservatives who disagreed with the WSJ on immigration but there was plenty of talk on the right about the credit bubble. What we had were a bunch of astrophysicists working for Wall Street who had concocted these models (sort of like the global warming models) that bore no relation to the facts on the ground. None of them had ever written a loan or appraised a piece of property. Everybody was just too smart.
Where is George Bailey when you need him ?
I ignore trolls, by the way, and highly recommend it.
