Comments on: Such A Deal

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:48:22 +0000

The GOP is lining up their propaganda that all of these problems are a result of the Dems taking over Congress in 2006, so they don’t care how bad it gets. The facts don’t mean a thing, it’s all perception aided by the corporate media.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:27:44 +0000

Addendum: oh, of course… Shelby. He’s the third prong.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:23:35 +0000

Corker’s three-pronged plan… himself, McConnell, and who’s the third?

From what I’ve read, it is exactly what you said: a hit job. The UAW made some serious concessions, but the R’s in the Senate never intended a successful deal. Haven’t they read enough history to understand that the nobility always ultimately loses a class war?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:01:59 +0000

The Party of Hoover would rather have 4 million people unemployed on the streets. I don’t know why, but that’s the truth. And Harry Reid is too gdmned spineless to force the Party of Hoover to make it official and actually, like, filibuster. I mean, it ain’t as if Congress is gonna be doing anything until December 31 anyhow, right?!

– Badtux the Disgusted Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:49:21 +0000

Labor and management work out these deals all the time, it makes no sense for the Senate to get involved unless they know a whole lot more about manufacturing cars than I’ve seen in their statements.

This was a political hit job. The Republicans had no intention of dealing with the problem, they just wanted to produce a few campaign ads. Shelby of Alabama better have a good story ready when he finds out that the SUV lines for BMW and Mercedes in Alabama are shutting down. The state gave both companies millions to set up those lines in Alabama, and they aren’t going to get anything for their money when everyone shifts to high efficiency cars.

It would be nice if people realized the “Class War” has just started in earnest.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:06:37 +0000

…the UAW has already been working with the Big Three on wage and benefit reductions that would go into effect by 2011, but one report I read suggested that Corker and the Republican negotiators wanted the wage rollback to be in effect by the end of this next March. If true, this suggests that all the Republicans really wanted to accomplish with this little exercise was the creation for their own political cover (by saying “well, we tried”) for any fall-out from the carnage that could ensue if both GM and Chrysler were forced into Chapter 11 .