If you’ve got one, call your Republican Senator! don’t let them get away scot free with this. They are just trying to F**K US up one last time. As if they haven’t done enough.

Surprise ! Surprise !

Heh. He said barnacle.

Yes, unions have no place in the new Republican slave econony.

40 hour week – was employers being nice.
Health care – die on the job.
Retirement – Drop dead.
Work place safety – you are lucky to have a job.

Wal mart = Company store.

Yes, indeed, those barnacles of collective bargaining and a fair wage for a days work. Such outmoded concepts when you’re a member of a party that loves hiring illegal workers to mow your lawn.

When Dems say “restructuring” it means greener cars.
When Diaper Dave and the GOP gang say “restructuring” it means drive a stake through the unions.

I mean, how dare those bluecollar guys get any money?

You know, a FISA-like blow to faxes and phones right now would be appropriate.

I want the benefits that the members of the Senate and House Union have. And I also want the retirement deals they have. What a bunch of farking hogwash.

If it were not for the FDL rules against violent verbiage I would say more. I swear I listen to the idiots in the Senate and I wonder how the hell they lost all sense of decency.

‘…with the barnacles of unionism wrapped around their necks.’ Or with the ship of state’s bottom fouled with albatrosses.

Well, we see what the Repug tactics will be in the Senate for the next two years. Hopefully in 2010, we can get to the magic 60. Until then, we can hope that Reid has the spine to coop Olympia or Susan or the other few sane Repugs to bypass this “one senator can block anything” tactic.

I still think making them go through with an actual filibuster might be a good tactic.

Har har. Thought the same thing.
Unions. Good for workers. Bad for government?
Too large to fail $$$ Institutions. Bad for the poor losers who make, oh, less than $74 an hour /s. Good for Rich A**holes?
(Oh, I have to go back to making cookies or fudge or I’ll have an attack, of some sort.)

And DeMint has, of course, spent the last however many years working in the private sector, taking home a paycheck, paying for his own health insurance, wacthing his benefits carefully.

oh? He hasn’t? He’s been on the public dole all this time, with platinum healthcare and multitudinous benefits and perks for self and family?

Fancy that!

DeMint

DaPrick

He’s like Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles pointing a gun at his own head.

Also (from Wiki) “In April 2003, the Associated Press reported that DeMint was one of six members of Congress living in a Capitol Hill townhouse subsidized by The Family, a Christian religious organization with ties to fellow Senator Sam Brownback.”

Subsidized housing in DC from a shadowy fascistic cult with ties to Nazis, dictators, and the CIA. Now that’s getting up by your goosestepping bootstraps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint

Even if the Pelosi/Bush bill goes through, it will be written by the repugs and it will put GM under by March, then Bush’s “car czar’ will put them under and the UAW will be finished, at least in GM and Chrysler. Ford will take a little longer. So the unions for all intents and purposes are done, you can stick a fork in them.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

Surprisingly accurate analogy, though in precisely the opposite way he means it, of course.

We have a perfect storm in the economy. We have a captain and navigators who insist that running the ship into shallow water over reefs isn’t the problem, and if we just keep doing more of that, it’ll work, really.

And along comes Lieutenant DeMint to declare that the real problem is the barnacles.

Yeah.

Looking around at the media it looks like they are already writing off the auto industry bailout.

Yes, I think we should bust the unions. Then we can, as Americans, compete head-to-head with China and India on a per capita basis. Then we can even have more people default on their home loans, spend a few trillion more of bank bailouts (with a nice carve out for Cheney to buy a home in Dubai so he can go back to work for Halliburton), and reap all the benefits of Bush’s political capital.

If they could just drive The big 2 1/2 into bankruptcy the vulture capitalists could have a field day breaking up the supply industry.

i’m listening to levin’s statement from the senate floor right now. i can’t actually tell that he is trying to save the big 2.5 – he is totally hopeless.

Levin goes on but who besides us is listening.

Jeebus !

who would want to listen to levin? he’s putting me to sleep and i already care about the issue. jfc.

Digg is open Pups so don’t forget to suppot the Lake and DIGG this post!

thank you. i always forget and appreciate the reminder.

The private investors have no interest in saving the 2 1/2 as they do not want the unions. Some Senators, financed by the self same investors, are paying the dividend to the investors by filibustering. The unions are doomed unless they can figure out away to guarantee a loan to protect themselves. At least DeMint, vile soul that he is, told the damn truth for once.

I keep trying to digg – hit the digg button and it takes me to the digg page, again hit the digg button and a message pops up that says I must first log in. I look up at the top bar and it gives me the opportunity to logout?

But the political aspect of this is most of this is being done to protect unions, uh, it’s not to protect the workers.

Clueless SOB, isn’t he? He thinks that workers and unions are two different sets of people, it looks like. Labor is not taxpayers, is not consumers, is not shareholders, in his delusionary world – those are all management people (middle and up). The rest of us – we know better, but we have no input.

I wish we could cut the pay and bennies for these congressional idiots to minimum wage, just so they know what it feels like.

senate goes into recess fro about 45 minutes (until 3pm et)

Union-Busting aside, DeMint is STILL and will always be – as asshole…

demint is right. the model is gone. now, what can we do about it?

How about those idiots and all federal employees. Some are trying to attach legislation in this bill to raise the pay and benes for federal judges.

Save Detroit, kill unions, and get a few trillion in pork passed or this bill is going in the shitter.

how would this benefit anyone? It will kill the automakers, kill the workers and benefit only the people receiving the bribes. congress.

it is over and we need to open our eyes again after the nappy. There is no aspect of our government that isn’t broken or bent. Since the fabric used in it’s construction does not bend back in to place, it is time to find a new material to build our foundation.

I humbly suggest that what’s needed are Unity and perseverance.

That’s how the other side made things as they now stand.

Something in your browser setting or you protection suite of SW… try re-logging in on the Digg page. I sometimes run into similar issues with my SW protection suite and I just have to re-login be sure and check the “Remember me box! You might also try right clicking the Digg button and open either in a new tab or window and then fuss with it!

yes, build from scratch with everyone at the table.

Read his wiki..gays shouldn’t teach and neither should women living common-law. One more politician who wants to enforce their religious dogma onto the public. Is there a member of CFR that doesn’t want to sell out US citizens to corporate rule?

Did anyone ever start a list of known members of The Family? It would be good to have as members come up for reelection. From what I have learned at FDL, any members will likely not have the interests of the ordinary person as their foremost concern.

Obama intents to keep Bush’s Faith Based Initiative in place. Not a great idea to continue funnelling tax money to religion. They have quite enough tax free income of their own.
http://www.religionandsocialpo…..fm?id=8133

GM wants to break the Union, partly to make themselves more competitive in China. They invested major money in China and were enjoying a good sales record. That has changed. Take money and benefits from American workers and invest in China. Sadly, nothing too unusual about that. In 2005, GM was having record sales in China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4655583.stm

In 2008, that has all changed:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=home
http://www.247wallst.com/2008/…..of-th.html
http://www.chinacartimes.com/2…..-in-china/

According to the Family’s wiki entry:

Senators who have been cited as members of the organization include Don Nickles and James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John Ensign of Nevada, Bill Nelson of Florida, Conrad Burns of Montana. Members of the House who have been cited as participants include Frank Wolf of Virginia and Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania. Charles Colson, an adviser of Richard Nixon, was also a member of “the Family” [2].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Christian_political_organization)

Aw, good ol’ Chuck Colson, who just got hisself a medal from Der Chimperor!

Find out what products are produced in the repubs states and boycott those products – make sure the news media know of this so it spread. Calling them won’t make much difference, but hitting them in their respective state’s businesses will.

Food for thought.

Funny how the Repubs NEVER needed 60 votes to pass any of their hideous agenda. But for Dems, 60 is the new 50. Just wait. When/if they get to 60, they’ll whine that they don’t have 100, so they can’t do anything.

I heard this interview yesterday on NPR on my way home and was furious by the time I got her. I resolved to do a diary on it the moment I got the time, but you’ve done better than I ever could. Thanks.

“Republican Senator Admits Opposition to Auto Bill is All About Union Busting…”

I’m glad a Texan is first to point out the; “8000 pound grey elephant with a stars and bars banner draped over it’s back” in the room.

Union or Confederate, with us or against us.

Doh! :/

… and it’s looking more and more like the future of high-performance cars from GM will look like this.

Screw this, I’ll be at the Nissan dealership ordering a 370Z. I just need to decide: yellow, blue, or black?

DeMint (sounds French) is an asshole in every sense of the word, in all contexts. What’s extra scary to me is that his staff seems to be a little more on the ball than Lindsey Graham’s.

Oh, to live in SC and be an unabashed liberal…it’s fun but painful at the same time.

I looked up Chuckles..he is another religious nut job. He doesn’t know if the current economic crisis is God’s judgement, or not.
http://usrenewal.org/?p=1178

There is no aspect of our government that isn’t broken or bent. Since the fabric used in it’s construction does not bend back in to place, it is time to find a new material to build our foundation.

The foundation has always been that we intend to live together and use peaceful means to do that. The Republicans are violating that ”contract”.

”New material”? What did you have in mind except for the ’Will of the People’?

Me: Well, I’m not trying to get rid of the Senate, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today’s economy.