This is way off topic, but can you explain to me how Barney Frank, a Democrat, and in the minority party from 1995-2007, stopped these reforms pushed by...someone? The minority party in the House cannot stop a damn thing without GOP support. There is no filibuster in committee or on the floor. The GOP can treat him and his preferences like the coffee boy and Frank had no recourse.
The Senate was also controlled by Republicans from 1996-2009. The regulators of the GSEs were in Bush's hands from obviously 2001-2009.
You should be offended at such obvious hackery. Recall what is simply fact that I highlighted above, then read this line from your link:
Yes, the GOP controlled the House and Senate and WH but all the blame falls on... Democrats!!!! Hell even the stuff Clinton proposed and backed that IMO did significantly contribute to the crisis a few years later was overwhelmingly backed by Republicans in both the House and Senate in 1999 and especially the end of 2000.
Seriously, that editorial is so offensively dishonest and obvious partisan hackery that no doubt whoever wrote that swill was happy to hide behind the anonymity of an IBD editorial. It ought to offend anyone with a passing knowledge of the facts.
The other funny thing is you're also arguing that Trump as POTUS, and the GOP Congress NOW has really vast power to dismantle the regulatory state, which is why we can credit the good economy to the GOP! But you're also simultaneously arguing that the Bush administration and GOP Congress had NO power to affect the trajectory of the financial crisis. It's pretty fascinating.
So as always, if it's good, we can always credit the GOP. And when it's bad, it's the fault of Democrats and we just have to figure out how to blame them.