Lord knows I've tried this research thing, but it all comes back to policies introduced during the past 8 years of a GOP president and 10 years of a GOP Congress. Would you be so kind as to show me the bills that were introduced since 2006 that would have caused this much damage to the economy (and that weren't vetoed by Bush)? Because if you can't cite those, and you have to go back to 2005 to cite the Republican efforts to increase oversight on Fannie and Freddie (which they dropped...it never went to vote, despite their majority in Congress at that time), then you have to admit that all the "coulda's and shoulda's" to avoid where were at SHOULD have been introduced in the 10 years the GOP had control of Congress. They didn't. Yet somehow....it's the democrats fault.