A question for Obama and\or his supporters here:

[coalition_unwilling]

139. You know, upon reflection, I think you are 99% correct here and I was 99% incorrect. Specifically,

Obama did insist upon more accountability that had not been part of the 'blank check' that Henry Paulson demanded when Bush was Prez. As soon as I read what you wrote, it triggered some memories I also have of those howls of outrage from the Repigs at the quaint and obsolete notion of 'accountability'.

That said, in March 2009, Obama's administration launched the Public-Private Investment Program. This was basically a re-iteration of TARP (with some accountability missing in the original) to the tune of $75-100 Billion. So TARP continued under a different guise but on a smaller scale also than in its original iteration.

Both TARP and PIPP were predicated on the assumption that banks would resume lending if only their toxic assets could be offloaded onto the public. I would have to say as of today that the verdict is still out on whether that assumption was valid.

No need to research links as far as I'm concerned.