If you couldn’t watch Frontline’s Inside the Meltdown last evening, it’s viewable online. It’s quite compelling, although as I said when it was over, “I don’t require happy endings, but it would be nice to have some ending.” It necessarily ends before we know the rest of the story, since we’re still living it.
M J Rosenberg noticed something I hadn’t: Bush wasn’t in it. Oh, there was a clip of him at a press conference, but other than that he wasn’t mentioned as being in on any consultations that Bernanke, Geithner or Paulson held. Granted that he isn’t an expert on finance, you might have expected the guy who called himself The Decider to be in on the discussions. Maybe he recused himself.
I guess he decided not to be there in case they wanted him to take the blame.
Or the producers figured he’d just claim executive privilege, so why ask.
I watched it too. It didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know but it was very well presented. I hadn’t noticed the absence of W, either – it’s hard to notice something that isn’t there.