From The Ashes Of ACORN...

Just as both the Senate and the House vote to defund ACORN, the democrats are now trying to renew the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) which was the initial 1970s law that CAUSED our current housing crisis and had lead to the growth of ACORN in the first place.

Dems Push to Expand CRA

A number of experts believe that aggressive enforcement of the 1970s-era Community Reinvestment Act contributed to the mortgage meltdown, and thus to the greater financial crisis, by requiring financial institutions to lend to unqualified borrowers. Now, the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is responding to that situation by proposing to expand the scope and power of the Community Reinvestment Act.

This morning House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank held a hearing on H.R. 1479, the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009." The bill's purpose is "to close the wealth gap in the United States" by increasing "home ownership and small business ownership for low- and moderate-income borrowers and persons of color." It would extend CRA's strict lending requirements to non-bank institutions like credit unions, insurance companies, and mortgage lenders. It would also make CRA more explicitly race-based by requiring CRA standards to be applied to minorities, regardless of income, going beyond earlier requirements that applied solely to low- and moderate-income areas.

AAARGGH!

I can only assume that these Democrats are either moronically stupid or dispicably evil or both. There is NO GOOD that shall come of REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES, hoping for a different outcome.

But that seems to be the doomed pattern of most liberals.