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Yes they did. They were stopped by their ideology. The government could have easily nationalized it.

Here's Paul Krugman talking about it right after Lehman went under: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23krugman.html

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Your narrative is directly contradicted by Bernanke himself. Read the NY Times article I linked to that references his book. He is clear on the matter.

Bernanke and treasury alone could not have done it. The government could have. What he left out was that they never considered nationalizing the banks. No narrative here; just pointing out what a Nobel prize winning economist laid out.

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