The Auto Bailout Shows Bush Is a Lame Duck With Power

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Also the 6000+ dealers. What the $17 billion bailout asks is too much in too short amount of time to work. The "Big Two's" problems are complex, and the combined pressure of the extreme drop in auto sales and the 3/31/09 deadline make success highly unlikely.
Not sure how this can be argued as a "stunt to crush the UAW"... Clearly business interests will always favor profit over improved worker pay, but I don't see any profits in Detroit.

Kurt of VA 12:51AM December 21, 2008

Only show that the Republicans in the senate forced it on him because he is a lame duck with the lowest approval rating ever so they had nothing to lose by passing the buck.

HillbillyBill of TN 4:28PM December 19, 2008

Only show that the Republicans in the senate forced it on him because he is a lame duck with the lowest approval rating ever so they had nothing to lose by passing the buck.

HillbillyBill of TN 4:28PM December 19, 2008

This is a stunt to crush the UAW as a symbol for further eliminations of all benefits for all workers nationwide. How is it that 40% of the corporations in America provided pensions and medical in the 50's and 60's and were still profitable. The business interests goal is city state feudalism were we are all peasants/slaves. We are now about to live the results of a Republican dream economy. It is an unsupportable Ponzi scheme where all the money is siphoned off from the bottom of the pyramid to the top and the bottom collapses.

mark of CA 1:59PM December 19, 2008