Published 10/15/2008
by james.ledbetter
at The Big Money
When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were trying to shove a bailout plan—any bailout plan—through Congress, there was a lot of mostly Republican rhetoric along the lines of " This is not the time for finger-pointing " and "Let's not play the blame game."
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