{"id":193547,"date":"2008-12-08T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/deal-near-on-auto-bailout\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:19:00","slug":"deal-near-on-auto-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/08\/deal-near-on-auto-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Near on Auto Bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it looks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/05\/AR2008120501029.html?hpid=topnews\">a deal for a bailout of the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) auto makers is near<\/a>, and once again, the Democrats have folded like a bunch of overcooked broccoli, agreeing to take the money from the fuel economy program that Congress had passed earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, like you have to go and make nice to the lamest duck in the White House in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>This is stupid, standing up to Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> is not only the right thing morally, but it is a win politically.<\/p>\n<p>The UAW is involved in all this too, but they are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122875608562688401.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us\">showing more backbone than the Dems<\/a>, demanding a significant equity stake, and possibly a seat on the board of directors, for any concessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it looks a deal for a bailout of the Big 3 (Big 2\u00bd) auto makers is near, and once again, the Democrats have folded like a bunch of overcooked broccoli, agreeing to take the money from the fuel economy program that Congress had passed earlier. Yeah, like you have to go and make nice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-industry","category-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547"}],"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=193547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}