{"id":191242,"date":"2009-09-10T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/10\/gm-bails-out-angela-merkels-reelection-hopes\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T20:51:00","slug":"gm-bails-out-angela-merkels-reelection-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/10\/gm-bails-out-angela-merkels-reelection-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Bails Out Angela Merkel&#8217;s Reelection Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601100&amp;sid=aElAf.sL7e3o\">sell to Magna<\/a>, whose bid had been anointed by Merkel and the CDU party.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that Merkel can lose now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with the SDP categorically refusing to form a coalition with the Left Party, we&#8217;re likely to end up with the status quo after elections anyway:  The SDP gets the most seats and votes, but by refusing to ally with the Left Party, it means that the CDU-FDP coalition has more seats than the SDP-Green coalition, and the SDP is once again forced to be a junior coalition member.<\/p>\n<p>This may have been &#8220;responsible&#8221; in 2005, when the last elections happened, but in 2009, after pretty much <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">every single complaint of the LP about the excesses of capitalism have proved true<\/span>, it&#8217;s just stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They decided to sell to Magna, whose bid had been anointed by Merkel and the CDU party. I&#8217;m not sure that Merkel can lose now. Of course, with the SDP categorically refusing to form a coalition with the Left Party, we&#8217;re likely to end up with the status quo after elections anyway: The SDP gets &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,1000,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-elections","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}