Senate GOPers Go To The Mattresses...For Low Wages And Foreign Automakers

by Jed L

Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 11:45:03 AM PST

It's curious what guys like Mitch McConnell decide they want to fight for.

$700 billion for bankers? Not a problem! Here's your blank check.

$14 billion emergency loans to stave off the imminent bankruptcy of at least two American automakers? Hell no! (Unless you're willing to slash wages and destroy the "evil" UAW.)

So now, barring some last minute miracle, Senate Republicans have decided to block Congress from saving the auto industry.

Keep in mind that it's not like Senate Republicans represent a majority of the Senate, or anything like that.

Hell, they managed to defeat the emergency loan package with just 35 votes. Yeah, that's right...the vote failed 52-35...but in the world of the Senate, the guys who won the vote had the 35.

That's just totally upside-down, but then again, just about everything about Senate Republicans is upside-down.

It's a story that they started to tell on Thursday night, and it's a story they will keep on telling over and over and over again until every American citizen is aware of this fact: Senate Republicans are the single biggest obstacle to getting this economy back on track.

Only heaven knows why these guys are so hell-bent on their ideological extremism, on their obstruction and destruction, but this much is clear: the only thing they have on their Christmas list this year is job loss and despair.

And that's just what they are giving the country.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/12/0187/2759/118/672121

Small comfort.