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Now I know you have some Republican hands in this mess as well (US Republicans among lawmakers with Countrywide loans). So one party isn’t purer than the other in this mess. However, this article does capture just how series your elected officials are in dealing with Countrywide.

From washingtonexaminer.com

Faced with a promised vote to subpoena documents on Countrywide Financial’s “Friends of Angelo” program, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fled a scheduled 2 p.m. markup today.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, had promised to call for a vote at today’s markup on whether to subpoena documents involved in the program that gave sweetheart mortgages to at least four Democratic government officials, including two senators. According to the Wall Street Journal, the program might have also benefited the chairman of House Oversight, Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.

Maybe they had to take a collective bathroom break or something.