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The fact that Bernie was all over the media claiming Hillary's auto-bailout attack was not true, in the nick of time in front of the Michigan primary vote, seemed to have worked with those who have gobbled the media's narrative of Hillary Clinton as untrustworthy.
Well, it was true, and we have to debunk Sanders insistence that she deliberately "mischaracterized" his vote.

The bill that finally passed had no provision for bailing out the Automakers. Obama diverted some of the Bank bailout money after the fact. If no one had voted as Bernie did, Obama probably wouldn't have been able to do that.

If you were there at the time and paying attention, Bernie is correct. He voted to save the Auto Industry. Hillary didn't. She voted to save the Banks.

Oh those pesky facts.

Bernie was for the auto bailout before he was against it

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-sanders-auto-bailout-20160307-story.html

You could argue that the effort to slash funding for TARP in January 2009 was really just a protest vote against the design of the program, as other Democrats have said. And admittedly, TARP evolved over the months as federal officials moved away from the original idea of buying up bad bank assets and found more efficient, less costly ways to shore up the financial industry and ease the credit crunch.

But again, protest votes are easy. Coming up with workable policy is hard, and Congress didn't have the luxury of time in those days. Perhaps Sanders has forgotten how dire things were after Lehman Bros. failed and AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all cratered. The economy was sinking fast, dragged down by a financial sector that had lost its ability to price risk and lend money.

Candidates often get torn apart in campaigns for supporting this or that compromise, as their opponents invariably focus on the less savory elements of the package and ignore the overarching reasons to vote for the thing. Here, Clinton is blasting Sanders for the opposite reason: He opposed a compromise that included something widely viewed by Democrats as a good idea (the auto bailout) because other elements of the package were less savory to his anti-Wall Street worldview.

That was his choice. He can say he was for the auto bailout at one point, but that was before he was against it.

She voted for both the "auto bailout only" bill that failed and TARP, into which that auto bailout money was slipped after the auto bailout only bill died.

heard how important it was to keep the auto industry going, they paid back their money with interest and then employees was back to work paying taxes, it was a win win. Hurting middle class Americans.

The auto bailout only bill that Sanders voted for got no GOP votes and died. So the auto bailout money got slipped into the TARP bill, for which there were just enough GOP votes for passage. And time was of the essense. We were hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month. Our economy was collapsing. We had no time to wait for the perfect bill--and no expectation that that GOP would vote for a perfect bill. The GOP had already voted down the perfect bill.

There is no "probably would have." It is you who is making up history.

Legislative compromise in a democracy is all about taking diamonds with the poo. It's called governing.

You can take your poo to the another forum or group that would enjoy it more

resultant economy.

If the bill would have been killed by Sanders and the rest of the voting Republicans this country would have entered into a truly tragic depression.

I doubt he would have made it past his next election, even in VT.

We would have entered another Great Depression. We were losing over 700,00 jobs per months. After TARP was passed, that immediately turned around, creating what Rachel Maddow calls Obama's "bikini graph":

economic collapse. Something needed to be done quickly.