realclearpolitics.com - 12/13/2008
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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 the U.S. car business?" Right after the UAW ...
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
detnews.com - 12/16/2008
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detnews.com —
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 ...
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Gettelfinger blasts GOP's tactics | detnews.com | The ...
mlive.com - 12/12/2008
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mlive.com —
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) A UAW local president
at a General Motors Corp. plant in Spring Hill...
says Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker is "playing politics with 110,000 jobs in Tennessee" by opposing the auto industry rescue package. UAW Local 1853 ...
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UAW: Sen. Corker risking 110,000 jobs in Tennessee - ...
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One More Time: UNIONS to blame for Auto Maker Troubles!
Flopping Aces —
... Larry Kudlow, the host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, goes into detail on the issue and his article is worth reading in it’s entirety. Excerpts are below: ...
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Daily Kos —
... to secure post-invasion Iraq, “Stuff happens,” could be the epitaph of our age. Ron Dzwonkowski: It just grinds you, doesn't it? I mean that a handful of senators from former Confederate states could so summarily sign a death warrant for the Michigan economy. A bunch of self-serving Republicans who will now go around blaming the United Auto Workers for killing the auto industry rescue plan. Lawrence Kudlow: I blame the United Auto Workers for killing the auto industry rescue plan. ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bob Corker, a first-term Republican senator, proposed on Thursday adding tougher conditions to a $14 billion auto bailout to win enough Senate votes to pass a controversial package supported by Democratic leaders and the White ...
Junior senator takes wheel in U.S. auto aid stakes —
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