As even the SNL skit acknowledged, the Bush administration pushed a bill to do something about it, which the Democrats stopped.
Well, I would agree. I think he was a good deal better than his father in that respect, and he started well in taking the steps to defend the nation that Clinton did not have the will, leadership or perspicacity to undertake. I think he faltered not because he did not want to see us win but because he could not see the need to get beyond conventional thinking and take away the oil weapon dramatically through developing our own oil resources and because he did not have the grasp of someone like Churchill or Tom Moorer for articulation and popular leadership through inspiring and insightful use of language or for getting beyond the bubble of conventional wisdom that his family and personal background in the oil business had created.
Here's a crazy idea; why don't you go learn something about the subject. Then come back and try again.
Well, Senator Shelby, who has shown impressive leadership, got the bill out of committee and the Bush Administration supported it but the Democrats killed it.
Which is what makes it such a target for satire.
The people who stopped the regulation that might well have prevented the crisis, or at least made it less harmful, have gotten away, thanks to the MSM, with blaming those that did try and do something for their malfeasance and are, astonishingly, thanks to the free ride given to Obama, put in charge of cleaning up their own mess while continuing to falsely blame it on Bush and the Republicans.