Loan Modifications: Obama’s Part of Problem, Not Solution

I didn't want to ever have to write that headline. Like so many millions of Americans, I voted for Barack Obama and truth be told there was one big reason. No, not Sarah Palin. And not because he was the anti-Bush. I voted for Barack Obama for a reason that didn't show up in the polls: the housing foreclosure crisis; he would do something to stop it.

I know now that I'm far from being alone in this. And I know why it didn't show up in the polls, after all, during all that joy that was present during the month leading up to the...