Many Republican lawmakers on the oversight committee tried to blame the mortgage meltdown on the unchecked growth of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-sponsored mortgage-finance companies that were placed in a government conservatorship last month.

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The Republican Roots of the Subprime Crisis...

Many people are still snookered by the right-wing blogosphere's accusation that the Democratic Party is solely to blame for the current financial crisis.

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Politicizing Crisis

There is a feeling in this country that the Republicans are soley responsible for the failures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that their failure was a reuslt of a lack of oversight and regulation that is indicitave of Republican operating methods.

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