That's why Hawaii is the way it is because of democrats, no checks and balances, the house and senate 92% all democrats, ways and means committee all democrats, legislators all democrats, so are you proud of them for what they accomplished in making Hawaii unlivable? I think they're pathetic, and the stupidity of the people that always vote the same people in because they vote for party, even though they know that person is a dud. Like I said, I was an independent voter, up until Obama's 2nd term, I voted for Obama before his first term. He sure fooled me. For the 911, it goes deeper than Bush, it was on Clinton's watch. 

What caused the great recession in 2008, Banks started to realize they had lost significant sums of money through the US mortgage defaults. Banks short of liquidity. The scale of bank losses started to increase and it became more difficult for banks to borrow money on money markets. This caused banks to reduce loans and mortgages....Not the Republicans fault.