The Guardian names the 25 people considered to be most responsible for the global financial meltdown. Some of them are obvious and guilty as sin. Others are...questionable.
First and most responsible it names Alan Greenspan (no surprise there). Then it goes on to the politicians. The first it names is, unbelievably, Bill Clinton.
In 1999 Clinton repealed the Glass-Steagall Act...
I think what they mean is that after 25 years of unremitting Republican efforts, Congress passed a Republican bill on a party line vote to repeal Glass-Steagal and a beleaguered Clinton then signed it into law.
George W Bush and Phil Gramm rate only 4th and 5th on the list, followed by assorted Wall Street/banking scoundrels and...Chris Dodd.
It certainly looks like the media are going to try to do everything they can to tie the Great Depression II around the necks of the Democrats, powerless though they've been for the past eight years.