[originally published earlier this week, 'member? that's right, i bumped this thread back to the top for the length of its news cycle. i can do that now that i'm responsible for such an overwhelming majority of the content on this once-far-more-diverse, once-blossoming weblog ("blog"). i can also commit my characteristic layout atrocities with impunity (and aplomb.) is this the new regime? are you really going to let it come to this, Wobs?] Hearing's not until Thursday...? well yeah, I'm already tailgating, apparently. By "tailgating" of course, I mean, scoping the FLSA for and listening to records with MSNBC muted in the old background.
Are "we" going to get the $25 billion this time (update: ABC says Harry Reid'll introduce the bailout bill on Monday)? Can we expect some primo, public declamations about "the unions" from the minority party? 'Hope to hear from those of youse who're (mebbe or mebbe not) romancing East Lansing, weak-kneed in Ypsilanti, or erstwhile in Webberville!
For starters please see
- the righteous MRzine piece by Dan La Botz.
- jonathan cohn disspelling the $70/hr myth
- (the Prodigal Uncle) Dave3544's masterpiece of historical fiction.
- always and in every way, the Burlman.
The more I watch Richard Shelby (R - AL), the more I think of frequent OG commentator Kyle M'cCaterbear (sp?).
ReplyDeleteSure, they're both from Alabama. But the commonalities run so much deeper than that. It just so happens that I have framed portraits of both men here at my workplace desk. And lemme tell you - the two men are practically indistinguishable. - P
Menendez, who (believe me) never comes off as the most loveable dude in the room, just acknowledged how the UAW has offered up more serious plans and shown more flexibility than any of the Big 3.
ReplyDeletenot crap, Bob Menendez.
mike crapo (R-ID)
ReplyDeletemike crap-o (R-Craptown.)
i'm prolly just having an auditory hallucination, but I thought I just heard Charles Schumer (D-NY) refer to the witnesses as "You Fucks."
ReplyDeleteit was prolly "You Folks," heh?
I'm late to the party, but I'm here.
ReplyDeletei don't know if we're exactly gonna draw a huge crowd to this party.
ReplyDeletei mean, you gotta figure some of the people out there have "real jobs."
Bob Corker (R-TN) - what a buttface.
ReplyDeleteThe auto-industry "marriage" metaphor is troubling.
ReplyDeletewhere did gettelfinger get that southern accent, btw? were there Southern UAW shops i don't know about that housed his rise to the top?
ReplyDeleteor am i naive to think he's somehow from the rank and file?
yeah, who'd expect sex metaphors from Bob Corker? Poor Chrysler.
ReplyDeleteand the "father" and "parent" metaphors for the (Private Equity firm) Cerberus!
ReplyDeleteand now the Chrysler guy is saying "we got a divorce from them!"
"we're busting our guts"!
ReplyDelete(for those viewing this thread retrospectively - right now Bob Corker is going on a self-righteous diatribe against the guy from Chrysler. he's doing it within an entirely Judeo-Christian/psychosexual frame - and in all seriousness, the Chrysler guy doesn't know what to do about it.)
ReplyDeleteWall Street -- who we shouldn't begin to trust! -- agrees with me, so you can clearly see, I am right!
ReplyDeleteseriously, Uncle: you don't think it would be awesome if Chris Matthews got a Senate seat and got to conduct his brand of cross-examination in this context?
ReplyDelete[high pitched] Ha!
ReplyDeleteis Bob Corker getting briefings from Wall St.? are these marriage metaphors and "haircut" references real inside baseball i dunno about?
ReplyDeletehopefully Ron G. wasn't caught daydreaming about the NYU campaign when Bob Corker started going after him about VEBA!
ReplyDeletedid Corker extend his remarks, or is he just somehow entitled to thrice more time than everybody else?
ReplyDeleteHe's got lots of complaints.
ReplyDeleteRon G. is not up to the task before him.
ReplyDeleteShit, Casey is actually talking about "the scapegoating of the men and women of organized labor."
ReplyDeleteif I had my way, Senator Casey, i'd've asked for "monthly reporting" on the TARP handoffs, too.
ReplyDeletebut apparently that was too much to ask for, when we were handing a far larger sum of money to the "men and women of" Finance Capital.
Bob Casey (D-PA)
ReplyDeleteRon G [Head of the UAW]
ReplyDeleteAs long as we protect the taxpayer. That has to be paramount.
ReplyDeleteI would like someone to point out that what the automakers are asking for is two-and-a-half months worth of the War in Iraq. We're getting value for money there, that's for motherfucking sure.
dealers "throwing their keys it." Someone should be shot for that.
"keys in" of course. my fingers are too fat for this keyboard.
ReplyDeletedon't bring your negative body image to my house, Uncle. i was just in a sauna with three other men, two of whom were perfect strangers.
ReplyDeletenow there are Protesters chanting "the Bailout is a Set-up!"
ReplyDeletei just googled "the bailout is a setup" and it didn't take me to a website w/ a manifesto.
ReplyDelete(obviously this is amateur hour. fucking clown school.)
alright, i gotta make some concessions to my own "Real job" pretense.
ReplyDeleteby which i mean "make a sandwich," of course.
"Put the money in the food bank where people need it."
ReplyDeleteOk. I mean, I think we're all in favor of food banks, but are these people really advocating not funding middle-class jobs in favor of food handouts.
Yes, let's make sure we don't close down any unprofitable rural dealerships. Heart of America. Keep local television stations alive with crappy commercials.
ReplyDeletesee, it's not just the crappy dealerships that make crappy commercials.
ReplyDeleteit's the JOBS that those crappy commercials create for video technicians who know how to shoot medium-fidelity straight onto VHS tapes. (which brings the conversation back to distinguished Alabama videographer Kyle McCaterbear).
Of course, but when we get down to the level of protecting even the most unprofitable of rural dealerships, then let's just nationalize the goddamn industry.
ReplyDeleteNot sure detroit building cars that are too good is the real problem here.
ReplyDeleteSen. Bennet (R-UT) just let loose into the hot mic with a wet, luscious, gutteral coughing sound.
ReplyDeleteNow he's dropping the term "shotgun wedding" and calling out Ron G.
"Not sure detroit building cars that are too good is the real problem here."
ReplyDeletei'd make that last gem the Masthead Quote for the OG, but UnionFacts'd likely penalize me for it.
ReplyDeletesherrod brown (D-OH) = not crap.
ReplyDeleteIt really is weird that UAW is answering most of the questions. UAW is, apparently, the no-to credible witness on the US auto industry.
ReplyDeleteoh God, here's Corker. AGAIN.
ReplyDeletefrom the Corker wiki:
ReplyDeleteCorker supports broad Second Amendment rights, "appointing Federal judges who practice judicial restraint," making the 2001 tax cut and the 2003 tax cut permanent, and increasing security on U.S. borders by hiring more border agents and constructing barriers in high traffic areas.[12]
Corker has expressed skepticism regarding the claims of human-caused global warming; supports continued U.S. involvement in Iraq; and has shown interest in replacing the federal progressive income tax with a flat tax.
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[now that's what I like to call the "Dave3544 Platform."]
he just said "haircut" again.
ReplyDeletenow he's calling Ron G. an "honest broker," then violently ravishing him.
when i say "violently ravishing," i of course am using a metaphor. or whatever that is.
good thing Dave and I both had Labor Notes subscriptions during what we could retrospectively call the Year of the VEBA. i can talk VEBA all night.
ReplyDeleteCorker has been sleeping during all the discussion of UAWs concessions, am I right?
ReplyDelete"haircut," "toast," "UAW."
ReplyDeletethat's all this guy's got.
oh, and "VEBA."
Oh jesus, "I was a card carrying union...person."
ReplyDeleteCorker was a card-carrying union member, tho, so apparently we're obliged to nod earnestly while he spews out this crap. What a dolt.
ReplyDeleteBob Corker. Man, he is horrible. I can't believe my mom voted for him. She did vote for Obama.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that all the Republicans have ceded their time to Corker.
ReplyDeleteSucks to be Chrysler Guy today.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the downside of the Chrysler guy telling Cocker to stick it up his ass? It's not like there going to be getting more than three or four GOP votes.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Chrysler guy should be like, "Fuck You, Corker!" And throw a chair across the room. And then the chair can quietly slide across the room, rattle, echo...
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for the House hearings! Barney Frank (D-MA), people!
I still haven't made that sandwich, btw. I am transfixed.
ReplyDeleteGo make yourself a sammy, lex
ReplyDeletegreat hearing.
ReplyDeletetime for the sandwich.
thanks to the Minx and the Cecil - looking fwd to ex post facto commentary from the folks.
'had the sandwich. 'sucked. bread was stale. oh, and of course there's the whole "soy-based fake cold cuts" problem, too.
ReplyDeletebut at least i'm not Chrysler Guy.
so i'm watching Hardball right now, and all the reporting I've seen so far casts today as if it was a big defeat for the potential bailout.
ReplyDeletecan this be? how can we possibly get EFCA if we cannot win in the court of public opinion on shit as obvious as the fact that this economy will modulate from recession to near-Depression if we lose 3 million fucking jobs right now? (suggested further reading = Dave's George Will post on gbor today.)
oh yeah, Chris Matthews is having.... (wait for it).......................
ReplyDeleteCHRYSLER GUY on Hardball, coming up Next.
Dave, favor us with a "boom"???
CHRYSLER Guy is praising (UAW) Ron G's "professionalism."
ReplyDeleteYou think auto execs praised Walter Reuther a lot along similar lines?
Chris Matthews just landed a real gnarly punch on Chrysler Guy, asking him why congresspeople won't buy his cars.
ReplyDeletedavid gregory just reminded us of CHRYSLER GUY's "we're busting our guts" line.
ReplyDeletehere comes Erin Burnett, boom!
the aforementioned David Gregory being somebody who doesn't mind having no pro-Bailout representation on his panels, btw.
ReplyDeleteDavid Gregory is a pile.
ReplyDeletegreat "coverage".... I was "working my day job".... I will stop with the "quotations"....
ReplyDeleteI nominate Lex for post O' the day for his riff on crappy commercials:
see, it's not just the crappy dealerships that make crappy commercials.
it's the JOBS that those crappy commercials create for video technicians who know how to shoot medium-fidelity straight onto VHS tapes. (which brings the conversation back to distinguished Alabama videographer Kyle McCaterbear).
classic stuff, sad I missed it live, glad it is etched in the proverbial stone if you will....
can't wait for the liveblog of the house hearing tommorow...I will see you there.
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