detnews.com - 12/16/2008
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He says union was 'set up'; Corker says he couldn't get a date for union to take pay cuts. Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News Union Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and Senate Republicans from the South spent Friday blaming each other for killing the congressional bailout that would have ...
salon.com - 12/13/2008
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salon.com —
Dec. 13, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- On July
15, Bob Corker was a happy man. "I cannot...
think of a more exciting day, even more so than Election Night, for me," the Republican senator from Tennessee said in a conference call that day . The reason for his ...
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Meet the GOP's wrecking crew | Salon News
transcripts.cnn.com - 12/14/2008
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transcripts.cnn.com —
Return to Transcripts main page CNN LATE EDITION
WITH WOLF BLITZER Interview With Ron Gettelfinger; Interview With...
Senators Ensign, Casey Aired December 14, 2008 - 11:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE ...
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realclearpolitics.com - 12/13/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
After Chairman Mao's revolution about 60 years ago,
people in the U.S. played the blame game by...
asking, "Who lost China?" Well, following the breakdown of an arduous seven-hour Senate negotiating session on Thursday night, many are asking, "Who lost ...
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Who's Losing the U.S. Car Business?
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More Narcissistic “Auto” “Reporting” from David Sanger
Firedoglake —
... recent past, as the last union contract shows. It crafted a way for manufacturers to take retiree healthcare off their books and bring wages into line with the transplants. That took a great deal of trust. If you need further proof, though, you might consider all those pictures of Ron Gettelfinger testifying with the Chairs of the Big 2.5 before Congress. Did you notice that the UAW and the Big 2.5 were on the same side of the table, in both a metaphorical and literal sense? The UAW knows well who is trying to break them. It's not the Big 2.5, it's the ...
More Trouble in Detroit
Wizbang —
Just last week during the Senate's attempt to craft a domestic auto bailout (a negotiation that that UAW President Ron Gettelfinger didn't bother to attend ), taxpayers witnessed the real UAW at work in the open. Asked to shoulder some part of a federal tax payer financed bailout, the UAW essentially said "we'll let ya' know later on that" and then placed its bet on a Bush Administration promise of help with a healthy side bet on an Obama/Pelosi/Reid trifecta. Well, to mangle the metaphors, the price of poker is going up . Chrysler is idling all assembly lines until late January and Ford has just announced that it is adding yet another week to ...
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driftglass.blogspot.com 12/16/2008 — Car and Briber Magazine Edition Our local Fox affiliate interviewed Judy Barr Topinka. In 2006, Judy Barr was the last remaining Republican constitutional officer in Illinois (Illinois State Treasurer, 1998-2006) when she decided to roll the ...
Editors: Telling Detroit No
article.nationalreview.com 12/12/2008 — President Bush could have burnished his spotty record on domestic policy by following his partys lead and telling the automakers no.
No Bailout For You!
redstate.com 12/12/2008 — You’ve already heard the headline: the UAW-bailout and electric-car legislation that was misnamed as a rescue plan for Detroit’s Big Three, has gone down to defeat on a cloture vote in the Senate last night.
The problem with this bill was that it ...
Welfare Rolls See First Increase in Years —
Wash Post In Congress 12/17/2008
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For the first time since welfare was redefined a dozen years ago, weaning millions of poor Americans from monthly government checks, the deteriorating economy is causing a surge in welfare rolls in a growing number of states.
Greene: What Obama is leaving behind —
CNN Political Ticker 12/19/2008
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CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)– On a sloppy, snowy, ice-covered day here, Barack Obama is making ...
Bush Throws Detroit a Lifeline —
Wash Post In Congress 12/20/2008
President Bush put the government into the daunting role of industrial oversight yesterday by grudgingly throwing a $17.4 billion lifeline to General Motors and Chrysler, a politically sensitive mission that President-elect Barack Obama will soon ...
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