Or if the Treasury had used Fannie and Freddie as tools of macroeconomic policy To unfreeze the housing market by refinancing everyone's mortgage...
Or if the Treasury had used its TARP authority to fund the infrastructure bank in 2010...
The Geithner-Plouffe-Axelrod line back in 2010 that the recovery would come on its own, that Obama shouldn't do anything else that might be unpopular, and substance and politics called for a 100% pivot to striking an entitlement-cutting grand bargain with the Republicans has been very expensive for the country--both now and in limiting options for the future.
Bill Clinton certainly gets a "save"--one for the record books.
