Is both parties to blame for the current market crisis?

Yes! It is a bi-polar....I mean bicameral decision! And its not the rich against the poor either. It is all of us getting a free ride on the credit card industry, buying ahead of our income and ets, gambling with other people's money and trying so desparately to live ahead of our means and keep up with the soap opera stars on TV. We should all be ashamed of ourselves, we should all pay and appologize to the rest of the world for damaging their financial well-being!