Comments on: No Auto Bridge Loan http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119674 Leen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:21:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119674 <p>and their governments pay for their health care and I believe pensions</p> and their governments pay for their health care and I believe pensions

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119670 Leen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:17:55 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119670 <p>Yeah not enough ranchers subsidized in Montana.(cough)</p> Yeah not enough ranchers subsidized in Montana.(cough)

]]> By: bigbrother http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119565 bigbrother Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:43:19 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119565 <p>We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.</p> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

]]> By: RevDeb http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119563 RevDeb Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:40:43 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119563 <p>No surprise coming from the Ass Press. Aptly named.</p> No surprise coming from the Ass Press. Aptly named.

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119562 Leen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:40:30 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119562 <p>Marcy has a new one going upstairs</p> Marcy has a new one going upstairs

]]> By: EternalVigilance http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119558 EternalVigilance Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:38:14 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119558 <p>Credit where credit is due (in this session of bashing Southern Senators): the <strong>“dime’s worth of difference”</strong> observation isn’t originally attributable to 2000 third-party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, but 1968’s <strong>George Wallace</strong>. </p> <p></p> Credit where credit is due (in this session of bashing Southern Senators): the “dime’s worth of difference” observation isn’t originally attributable to 2000 third-party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, but 1968’s George Wallace.

]]> By: MadDog http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119556 MadDog Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:37:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119556 <p>And on the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">NYT front page</a>, the unions are accused as the cause of the bailout failure:</p> <blockquote><p>Auto Bailout Talks Collapse in the Senate<br /> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 minute ago<br /> The $14 billion bailout died in the Senate Thursday night after the <strong>United Auto Workers refused</strong> to accede to Republican demands for swift wage cuts.</p></blockquote> <p> (My bold)</p> <p>And as other TradeMed slavishly follow the NYT’s lead, expect much more TradeMed blame to fall on the unions.</p> And on the NYT front page, the unions are accused as the cause of the bailout failure:

Auto Bailout Talks Collapse in the Senate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 minute ago
The $14 billion bailout died in the Senate Thursday night after the United Auto Workers refused to accede to Republican demands for swift wage cuts.

(My bold)

And as other TradeMed slavishly follow the NYT’s lead, expect much more TradeMed blame to fall on the unions.

]]> By: wesgpc http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119555 wesgpc Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:36:44 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119555 <p>OK, I didn’t know about that letter. Thanks for the info. Too bad.</p> OK, I didn’t know about that letter. Thanks for the info. Too bad.

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119553 Leen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:36:28 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119553 <p>no</p> no

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119552 Leen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:36:09 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/11/no-auto-bridge-loan/#comment-119552 <p>Specter “blah blah blah</p> Specter “blah blah blah

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