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by ok_dad 1107 days ago
> The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, often called the "bank bailout of 2008", was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed by the 110th United States Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

The bailouts to the banks were by Bush 2.

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Bloody time-travelling Obama, disguising himself as Dubya to bail out banks.
> Supporters of the plan included presidential candidates Barack Obama, ...
I'm sure the fact that Obama supported bipartisan legislation is why you blamed the result on "democrat Obama administration" when there was no Obama administration at the time, you made no mention of W, and mentioned only democrats.