Bob Corker just led the charge to kill the American auto industry, and with
it some 10% of the American economy, because he wasn't allowed to bust the UAW.
As such, Bob Corker is definitionally one of the most traitorous and
despicable human beings ever to track slime across the floors of the
Senate.
For some time, the left has been attempting to persuade the public, and itself that the country is progressive, but are either too dumb or guillible to realize it. The election of Barack Obama was used as further evidence of a shift to the center left. As indicated by the quote above about Corker, the left has set up the bailout as a battle of Left vs Right. The powerful against the working class. In their minds, opposition to this bill is a war on the middle class, is treason and is anti-American. (except for Sen. Tester D-Mont, he is a populist and all.)
This morning, the Washington Post released a poll, that the left must conclude says that a majority of Americans polled are traiters and union busters.
Overall, 55 percent of those polled oppose the latest plan that Chrysler, Ford and General Motors executives pitched to Congress last week, on par
with public opposition to earlier, pricier efforts. But with 42 percent support,
the new request for up to $14 billion in emergency loans has more backers than
previous proposals to secure up to $34 billion in loan guarantees.
But as
with the earlier bids, those who strongly oppose the measure greatly outnumber
those who are strongly supportive.
We have 55% of the country that wants the middle class to drop dead according the left. A majority of Americans are now union busters and all the other evil attributes heaped upon the right. So much for that center left country or that Daily Kos is part of the mainstream.
As a lifelong Michigan resident, I understand all too well about the importance of the domestic auto industry. I know about the mistakes, greed and incompetence on behalf of unions and management. However, these loans are a small price to pay to try to save a vital industry. The money we have wasted over the past decades on foreign policy is staggering. A few crumbs to Detroit is more than fair after what has been invested in Wall Street
