- Worker salaries make up a tiny fraction of the financial challenge facing the automakers.
- The UAW had already agreed to achieve “compatibility and comparability” by March—a major concession.
- We still have the opportunity to fix this and the obligation to try.
- It is “incredible” that the one demand put above all others by Republicans during this negotiation is that workers, who have already been hurt badly by the declining economy, should take another hit.
Indeed, it is absolutely incredible. As Sen. Dodd told NPR on Friday, there was a part of the minority that was “set on having this deal blow up.”
Dodd’s complexion in this video might be an indication of just how furious he is over this Republican stunt, or it might be the result of bad lighting or a camera that wasn’t white balanced—either way, selfish and cynical Senate Republicans have left us all seeing red.
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Dodd!
Well it would have been nice for Dodd, Reid, and Gettlefinger for that matter to have said this at the time and not now after the fact.
Digg!
bluebutterfly (reply to downstairs comment)
if i had known you did not know, i wudda explained it to ya
nice to see ya back visiting the lake again
Dodd was clearly pissed last nite after the vote and voiced it in the well of the Senate…
Well it is about farking time some Dems started speaking up about this shit.
an angry Senator Dodd is my favorite kind of Senator Dodd
Hey Pups! Am all snuggled in here on the sofa with many blankets and shill TBS Sex in the City… (not like HBO) hey, he just said, “he is just not that into you.” Had a major teevee problem that Google solved. Sigh, Mr. CE in New York.
wish you were there too, Chris?
I’ve been a little cautious about Dodd with his post primary actions but ya gotta give props were props are due. Go Dodd!
Department of Democratic Defense!
good acronym
oldie but goodie ;)
In New York, yes of course! Mr. CE picking up a medical collection and seeing Ms. CE for a weekend of dining and fun. Me, here in snowy Cleveland, left to fight the good fight at work (damn the technology and full speed ahead).
Did you see any Big3 Execs on TeeVee fighting hard for this bailout ?
What little I saw of your MSM makes me think they were all in on this union busting effort …
Senator Dodd is rightly pissed at these sorry excuses for Senators who put petty politics ahead of the good of the country! They should all be Impeached for being Traitors. They would rather send the whole county into a Depression just so they can have revenge on the Blue Collar workers and Unions who worked and voted for Obama. Did they try and set even one condition on over $300 Billion of our money. Did they require any of the Executives to take a pay cut? Oh no they wouldn’t do that to their best fucking friends!!
Hi Chris, Suz, Gregg, everyone.
Hey, Christine! I know the feeling. Currently 28 F and snowing. Supposed to snow all night and all day tomorrow, with the temps dropping the whole time. High temps for Sunday and Monday in the low single digits. Glad classes are over and I do not have to go out for a few days.
I think We’ve seen all We need to see: Bush’s Base consists of Greedy Racists.
No Amount of Our Money is Too Much for his Banker Buddies – the Greedy Manipulators that Robbed Our Homes and Stole Our Retirement Investments.
But, Bush’s Racist Pals have Already Stabbed Detroit in the Back – EDITED IN MODERATION – so, Not a Dime for the Auto Industry – even if it costs 3 Million Jobs.
Bush and his Greedy Racist Cronies don’t have the Best Interests of Our Country at Heart – it’s All About Hurting US to Benefit Them.
~~~ModNote: Edited for content. Phrases like this will be removed in moderation.~~~
My MSM!!! lol :)
But, no, didn’t watch most of it. I just want the ‘110th congress of FAIL!’ to wrap it up and go home.
Uh oh, Suz! This is not good…
Bomb explodes at Woodburn bank, kills at least one
Margot hey! Some big snow here about 6:00, but nothing now. But, VERY COLD. Christmas tree twinkling though!
Oh DrDick,
The words we love to hear…”classes are over.”
Nah, the Plantation Caucus should just be made to register as agents of foreign governments (the ones whose car plants are in their states).
Bob in HI
Hi..I still type slow. I left you a comment at the last thread at 94. Please go back there..I think you would like to hear just the first two sentences of the video that shows Bush’s racism.
I have been around..comments at Oxdown, mostly..
Turned in my grades this morning and have been a free man since noon. Three weeks off and then I got back to teach a three week Winter session short course (3 hours a day 5 days a week).
True, but the UAW head was busy…
Btw, Aloha Dood!
cool, now you can warp intarwebs minds.
All of the beautiful people are out and about tonight! Dr. D, have you ever considered moving? I thought not! When I was up in Syracuse, they had a perverse pride at the amount of snow they endured annually.
crap didn’t watch local news – watched ko and rachael instead..
I always loved Winter Session — relaxed, and often travel abroad.
“Yours” as in “American” … we get 51 channels up here and 50 are dedicated full time to Hockey.
Maybe even my own mind. Will be doing a lot of reading about such things as sexual biology and intersex, transgender statuses and the cultural construction of sexuality over the next few weeks.
The 51st is The Brewski Channel?
Hola, dude.
Thank you, Mod.
saw that video (spitting)
anytime ya don’t know, just ask and ya will get lots of answers – we are a helpful bunch down here in the dark
Nope, it’s curling, the other national sport…! ;-)
Hey, I like Curling.
Actually, winters here are usually relatively mild for being within spitting distance of the Canadian border. Temps are seldom below 0 and highs usually in the upper 20s and 30s. We do get snow, but nothing like upstate New York. Winter here is not nearly as bad as in Chicago where I lived for 12 years before moving here. No, I have no intention of leaving here. I like my mountain, rivers, lakes, and forests. Kind of nice having several million acres of actual wilderness in your backyard.
((( CT )))
The Canadian Auto Workers Union didn’t have a strong statement to counter the “It’s all the UAW’s fault” meme … at least not while I was listening.
does curling involve a bicep muscle and a beer glass?
Largest collection of contraceptive devices lives here in Cleveland — could this have any part in the cultural construction of sexuality?
Newt !
Brewski, Moose Huntin’ and Cattle Rasslin’. *g*
Or at least the deconstruction. 8-P
Sheee-it, I’d trade all 13,441 religious channels we have here for that one!
lucky you, ‘we’ got over a hundred dedicated to crap ;)
Margot, how are you?
Most suggestive sport EVAR !
Where else do you get a group of women shouting, “HAARD !!! HUURRYYY !!!”
awesome, sounds like an interesting and dare i say apropos course of study.
Nope… ;-)
I know; just assumed that I would not understand what the words of instruction would mean. Wrong! So simple that I almost screamed in frustration when I found out how easy it was.
Learning bit by bit. Last week I learnt that when a browser hijacker from Russia gets into my computer..it is sooo f….d!
Chicks with Brooms… or not.
A huge sport here in richie rich Cleveland.
Prepping for my anthropology of gender class this spring. Haven’t taught it in 5 years and have to update stuff.
fuckski nyet? dayam
what might that field of study have to say about Sarah Palin?
late late nite upstairs
This anthropology, not abnormal psychology. I could make some observations about the social group she belongs to and their strategies for acquiring and using power for their own benefit.
as the AGD goes, so goes America
Bunning’s (R against auto loan) appearance at Gibraltar Trade Center in Michigan will not take place; he has been, shall we say, “disinvited”.
http://www.freep.com/article/2…..2/81212048
hehehe…
I have something I posted on f/b that you might be interested in. I’ll try to find it.
It was bad! If I ever see btcar.com again, it will be too soon. This thing was so smart that when my son tried to get instructions to remove it, the nasty thing wouldn’t allow it. Creepy, actually..he had to use a different computer. The instructions were 7 pages of programs that had to be used one after the other. Needless to say, son announced that a complete format was in order because he was not willing to spend days trying to remove it.
Bookmarks are all gone now..oh moan..oh whine..
Not to mention that overall sperm counts and levels of sperm viability have been declining in American men since WWII.
When I was young, I wrote a letter to Rep. Thomas Dodd asking why girls couldn’t be congressional pages. Found his response among my mother’s saved treasures after she died.
Said it wasn’t being considered and he was totally opposed.
Thanks.
Hi Chris! I’m fine.;) I’ll have to write you a note.
Past my bedtime. Night all.
So — we officially live in Bizarro World.
Senators of a country actively work to drive down the wages of its citizens.
Think about it.
Hey! Hey! BPA!
How many sperm did you kill today?
Regan would be proud.
Yeah, well, if Dodd is so great why this?
“Whether used by senior colleagues or not, Corker raised his profile and won the respect of Republicans and the trust of some Democrats _ particularly Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Corker only joined the committee in January, but Dodd’s respect will give him more than a normal freshman senator’s clout as the auto industry’s fate and the economy consume the opening months of the 111th Congress and President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.“
He TRUSTS Corker???? WTF?
Read it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..50623.html
Perhaps the good Senator Dodd has reason to be pissed, but here’s a reason for him to have a coronary. Is it not incredibile that the head of the senatate banking committee hasn’t demanded ( in the name of transparency ) that the Federal Reserve be required to tell the American people where their tax dollars are being spent?
Imagine a private banking cartel in the form of the Federal Reserve with no government oversight. Congress can’t even demand that their books are auditied. We the people are providing hundreds of billions of dollars to bailout banks, insurance companies and now auto makers and yet there is no transparency to the process.
At least one batle was won this week when Bank of America was forced to pay employess from a window factory their two month severence pay after the bank killed the companies credit line. Bill Moyers did a great piece on this subject yesterday, but we really have to get the message loud an clear to people like Dodd and Frank that if your going to committ US tax payer funds for bailouts, it comes with a price tag and that is total transparency. I sincerely hope Obama will be a true agent of change. Anything less and it’s business as usual in Washingtion.
December 12, 2008
Georgetown University’s legal and finance scholar Emma Coleman Jordan takes Bill Moyers through recent news on the bailouts as big business begs for more.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour…..atch2.html
The entire reason that the Republicans have balked at a loan to the auto industry is for the purposed of killing the unions. I am surprised that it took this incident for Sen. Dodd to understand this. He correctly stated that the bailout of trillions for the financial sector was made with out any demands for the employees to take pay cuts or demands to be more competitive. The reason why is they smell an opportunity to break the backs of the unions. It will backfire on them. Many of these Republicans are from Southern states where millions in tax breaks were given to mostly foreign car companies to locate their plants in their open shop states. Surprise, surprise.
Thanks, goldstarndard.
So, why wasn’t Emma Coleman Jordan brought into Obama’s economic advisor committee?
“Dodd’s complexion in this video might be an indication of just how furious he is over this Republican stunt,”
Til Monday morning when he and the rest of the U.S. Senate whoredawgs wallow and country club about bathed in their “deep and abiding friendship and respect” for one another. BTW did Doddy stand and applaud felon Stevens’ last mawkish, self pitying valedictory?
I don’t think elections are working anymore.