weeklystandard.com - 11/20/2008
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I was listening to the local pop station this morning, and the three usually inane DJs were enraged by the auto bailout story, particularly the part of the story that had even Congressmen marveling at Detroit's tinnest political ears:
After hearing that the chief executives of General ...
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... nightmare, and the CEOs behavior in front of Congress may doom a very necessary bailout, John Amato says at Crooks and Liars. GM CEO Rick Wagoner’s admission that the troubled automaker had not developed contingency plans was a bungled attempt to force Congress’s hand on a bailout, The Foundry’s Conn Carroll alleges. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Barack Obama, Liberal Hawk? – Ross Douthat [image] A Big Difference! – Matthew Yglesias [image] The Day the Big 3 Lost Their Bailout – M.K. Ham, Weekly Standard [image] ...
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