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40340. jexster - 11/20/2008 2:17:52 AM At least he saved Mentum
Give em hell Harry
WASHINGTON – The Senate's top Democrat has called off a planned vote this week on a $25 billion auto industry bailout. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he wanted to figure out some way to help Detroit's struggling Big Three but that efforts to do so had stalled. 40341. jexster - 11/20/2008 2:22:54 AM CNN: Wonkers Pals Fly to DC in Corporate Jets
 40342. jexster - 11/20/2008 2:46:11 AM Good for the Nation
Levin to Dems: Don't Wait for GM to Fall 40343. jexster - 11/20/2008 2:54:37 AM a KOS post makes an excellent point
The Senate will name Lieberman chairman in an organizing resolution. It will take another to remove him. 60 votes are required to stop any filibuster
Like I said Arky, Joe isn't losing any sleep...in fact he's sleeping like a newborn
Lieberman: I wasn't punished 40344. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:04:25 AM What's good for JoeMentum is good for the Nation 40345. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/20/2008 3:11:50 AM Like most fools, jexster, Americans won't know what they've lost until they lose it-- and I'm talking about the auto industry. 40346. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:19:59 AM Well we'll find out soon enough 40347. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:21:12 AM GM has a fleet of 8 corporate jets
I'll miss every last one, but I am sure I will get over it
When life gives you lemons, retired GM execs make for the Sea of Cortez 40348. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:23:31 AM You don't know what you've lost til it's gone
they paved paradise put up a parkin lot 40349. wonkers2 - 11/20/2008 3:25:58 AM Cap'n Dirty sez, "Joan Walsh is hot!" 40350. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:38:24 AM Joe Lieberman sez
I feel closer to Wizzer than ever
Watch CBS Videos Online 40351. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:44:31 AM Which one of you killed Roger Rabbit???
University at Jefferson
Grosse Pointe
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40354. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:53:16 AM Team of Losers
House Republicans are holding leadership elections at this hour in a grand Ways and Means Committee room in the Longworth House Office Building. But at the rate they've been going, the GOP will be able to hold their caucus meetings in a phone booth. 40355. jexster - 11/20/2008 3:56:13 AM Milbank: Former Senator, Seeks Work
40356. jexster - 11/20/2008 4:02:02 AM Dana Milbank - Definitely NOT God's plan 40357. jexster - 11/20/2008 4:35:27 AM AP - A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president.
All hands on deck Wonkers 40358. OhioSTOPAS - 11/20/2008 4:43:50 AM From an op-ed by Thomas Frank in today's Wall Street Journal:
""This is the demise of a civilization," moaned Bernie Marcus, cofounder and former CEO of The Home Depot, during an Oct. 17 conference call about card check. "This is how a civilization disappears. I'm sitting here as an elder statesman, and I'm watching this happen, and I don't believe it."
"Mr. Marcus sketched out the doomsday scenario for his listeners, with unions going after what he called the "low hanging fruit" and proceeding to organize workers in industry after industry. He had taken it upon himself to notify the nation's CEOs of the danger, but they were not yet grabbing their guns. "This is as important as anything that's ever happened to these companies. And they're not reacting, and they're not fighting. The old time fighters are gone."
"But in the class war, as in the real deal, there are always ways of motivating the yellow. "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," Mr. Marcus said, apparently referring to Republican senators facing tough re-election fights, then those retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs.""
How sad is this? Is capitalism such a poor system that one can't make a profit if labor is unionized? Shareholders organized into a corporation have no chance if the workers they negotiate with are organized into a union? Having to pay workers bargained-for wages and benefits will bring down the big three automakers?
Karl Marx posited that capitalism could not and/or would not ever afford workers a living wage and still be profitable. However, the experience of America and the world (at least after the end of the Depression) has proved him wrong. But today we have our biggest capitalists essentially agreeing with Marx! They should listen to themselves sometimes. 40359. OhioSTOPAS - 11/20/2008 4:47:26 AM It's like how conservatives credit the fall of the Soviet Union to Ronald Reagan. You'd think these red-blooded patriots would vigorously argue that Communism was doomed to fail because of its unfairness and inefficiency, and its gross inferiority to democracy. But because a Republican was president when the USSR inevitably fell, they instead argue that Communism would be strong and thriving in perpetuity - but for Saint Ronnie.
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