Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Highlight

Finally, in a phrase that would change the landscape of conservative politics in the country, “We’re thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July.”21 Treasury, by rolling out a hurried and poorly thought out mortgage modification program, had just helped give birth to the Tea Party. Santelli’s rant, and the political movement it inspired, hung over the program for the rest of my time in Washington.