Just wondering if the 35 Senators asking for United Auto Workers to take a pay cut. Would be willing to take the lead and set a date for a pay cut?

If they really want to drive their point home, all 35 senators should accept the same hourly wages and benefits provided by the foreign auto makers, since this is the benchmark they are pushing. This includes, of course, punching a time card, elimination of expense accounts and housing allowances. etc.

buying the GOP claim that it’s the UAW’s fault that Congress couldn’t give the auto companies a loan.

Having viewed clips on the Internet showing white union people literally going door-to-door, making phone calls on behalf of Obama and Dems, and helping push new Dem Senators, as well as Obama, it’s evident that entire new social networks have emerged.

Evidently, the GOP thinks that it can use the US Senate and courts to shut them down; that is a huge misjudgment.

The blowback against Cerberus and its fellow travelers hasn’t even started to begin yet. Just to underscore that point, note that TPM is highlighting a Bloomberg report today that the Fed (Paulson?) is refusing to reveal information about where $2 Trillion in loans went:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home

First, the NYT shouldn’t waste its time quoting GOP Senators; instead, it should be reporting on GOP comments in its Obit section. I suspect that what’s really happening here is the Death Watch of the GOP, which is dying of self-inflicted wounds.

I didn’t expect K-k-k-Karl Rove’s GOP to die of suicide, but that’s sure what it looks like today.

A new Senate star emerges from the auto row
Thursday talks fail, but Tennessee Republican Corker has new stature
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
msnbc.com, updated 9:09 a.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 12, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28179431/

Why does Bob Corker hate Americans who work for domestic car companies but not Americans who work for foreign car companies so much that he would risk the entire industry, its supply chain and investors like you and me who through the choice of our retirement investments have part of our retirements invested in auto?

Someone ought to ask Tom Curry what constitutes being a “new Senate star.” Maybe Sen. Selby told him that was the case, in a shrewd move to deflect the fame.

where exactly is Glen Arbor Michigan ???

You have no idea about the rage that is brewing here. If General Sherman reappeared and proposed a march south, he could raise an army in no time.

some may think I’m crazy, but I’m not the only one …

with apologies to John Lennon

Congress: Rank-and-File Members’ Salary
The current salary (2008) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $169,300 per year.

* Members are free to turn down pay increase and some choose to do so.

* In a complex system of calculations, administered by the Office of Personnel Management, congressional pay rates also affect the salaries for federal judges and other senior government executives.

* During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin considered proposing that elected government officials not be paid for their service. Other Founding Fathers, however, decided otherwise.

* From 1789 to 1815, members of Congress received only a per diem (daily payment) of $6.00 while in session. Members began receiving an annual salary in 1815, when they were paid $1,500 per year.

Congress: Leadership Members’ Salary (110th Congress)
Leaders of the House and Senate are paid a higher salary than rank-and-file members.
Senate Leadership
Majority Leader – $188,100
Minority Leader – $188,100

House Leadership
Speaker of the House – $217,400
Majority Leader – $188,100
Minority Leader – $188,100

A cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) increase takes effect annually unless Congress votes to not accept it.

Corker could have taken the lead

http://askville.amazon.com/sal…..d=15190812

So, the UAW is more powerfull than Congress? That is teh awesome. Who knew?