| Kasz216 said: That's what I said? People like Akuma try to lump it all on the republicans because they were the ones in power.... when in reality the democrats were helping to stop the reform to prevent this crisis from happening.
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Many people also make the (flawed) assumption that because the senate or house is "controlled" by one party they have the ability to produce legislation without the aid of the party in opposition; this really isn't the case. In both chambers and for both parties there are few individuals who vote along party lines almost all of the time ...
Now the (unfortunate) problem is that all of the people in the senate and congress are politicians and a large portion of them will not vote for the right thing to do if it is politically risky. If you're proposing legislation that is designed to prevent a potential crisis by producing a controlled slow down you will need the support of both parties in order to get it passed both to compensate for the people who won't vote for it, and to help manage the political optics of the situation.
