Radical Liberals are to Blame for the banking crisis we are in

In case you really want to know, the cause of the banking, liquidity, Wall Street and AIG roots all in the administration of the worst President this nation has ever had. Jimmy Carter. Clinton continued the policies. George Bush and John McCain tried to correct the problem but the Radical Liberals in Congress wouldn't hear of it.

I know some of you will doubt this. This article from Investor's Business Daily:

To hear today's Democrats, you'd think all this started in the last couple years. But the crisis began much earlier. The Carter-era Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, mostly in minority areas.

Age-old standards of banking prudence got thrown out the window. In their place came harsh new regulations requiring banks not only to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, but to do so on the basis of race.

These well-intended rules were supercharged in the early 1990s by President Clinton. Despite warnings from GOP members of Congress in 1992, Clinton pushed extensive changes to the rules requiring lenders to make questionable loans.

Lenders who refused would find themselves castigated publicly as racists. As noted this week in an IBD editorial, no fewer than four federal bank regulators scrutinized financial firms' books to make sure they were in compliance.

Failure to comply meant your bank might not be allowed to expand lending, add new branches or merge with other companies. Banks were given a so-called "CRA rating" that graded how diverse their lending portfolio was.

It was economic hardball.

Read the whole thing and then decide how accurate the "Not Me" Pelosi plea was. She is a pitiful leader and her type must be put out of office. She's a disgrace.

The radical economic agenda particularly as is propounded by Barack Obama is dangerous to your economic health. We've just seen the evidence of it.