Boehner Spokesman: Auto Industry Revival Is ‘Nothing To Celebrate’

Source: Think Progress

But Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) would rather have seen those jobs disappear, as his spokesman said yesterday that the auto industry’s revival is “nothing to celebrate”:

The administration’s auto bailout is nothing to celebrate,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. “The model the White House should be touting is Ford, which, instead of relying on a taxpayer-funded bailout, saw trouble coming and made the tough decisions necessary to preserve jobs and weather the storm.”

This is hardly the first time that Boehner has been utterly unsympathetic to the prospect of widespread job losses. Back in February, for instance, Boehner said “so be it” when asked about the loss of federal jobs that would occur if the House Republicans’ desired spending cuts were implemented.

Boehner is also highlighting Ford’s refusal of money as if Ford did not benefit from the auto rescue. But as the Wall Street Journal noted, Ford will “benefit from many of the concessions that General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC exact from the suppliers, unions, dealers and debt holders shared by all three companies.”


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What happened to House Republicans saying that their focus would be on jobs. Instead, they nearly shut down the federal government over abortion, and now they are threatening to plunge the Nation into default because they want to privitize Medicare and they are ignoring simply proposals to raise some tax rates to address the deficit.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/05/236836/boehner-autos-nothing-to-celebrate/

which takes you to the story, rather than a front page that will change soon.

Obviously a conservative govt would just be a full on misery-fest, every day doom and gloom, no celebrations, no happiness or pride, just a depressed christo-fascist country. Btw, Obama DID mention Ford in his speech. Idiots!

Boehner is a creep, but I am surprised that he went this far into RW fantasy land. He does have an Ohio constituency to represent.

A lot of them are in the auto industry, and supporting industries, that Obama SAVED. When you've accomplished one-tenth as much, MAYBE you'll be qualified to express your opinion.

Stupid shit. Republicans and CEOs are the REAL terrorists, causing more damage with disaster capitalism than any bombs can hope to.