A wise source e-mails me:

Just a thought: We know – because we’ve already seen bits and pieces of it – that all Americans will relive the pain and shame that was the Great Depression of the late 1980s, with the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry. How five men were singularly responsible for millions of Americans losing their life savings, and living in cardboard shanty towns known as Keatingvilles.
Oh, wait. That didn’t happen. But maybe there are five or six … or more … U.S. Senators (if some are Republicans so be it, they deserve to take the heat), who in the rush for nicer beach houses or mountain cabins, or Georgetown colonials, got preferential mortgages, and turned a blind eye to what many analyst and commentators (many of them Democrats) were warning was a dangerous trend in the housing market that led to thousands of American families losing their homes. While I doubt we’ll see Doddville opening up in Westport, Ct., … one can only hope.
Far be it for me to want another Capitol Hill spectacle like the one from 20 years ago, but I would like to know who in the House or Senate got in bed with Countrywide and similar mortgage companies. Someone – a Republican if they were smart, and not John McCain – should begin the process of an Ethics investigation and a call for hearings.

Is that sound opportunity knocking?