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Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings
Washington Examiner ^ | May 28, 2007 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 05/28/2009 7:36:58 AM PDT by IbJensen

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Some other comments are much better than any I could make:

Well, so much for this Barack Obama's claim during the election that he was going to run an open, ethical administration. Targeting and destroying the livelihoods of Republican supporters while rewarding his own? Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chavez would nod their heads in approval at this Obama tactic. Small wonder that our federal republic is foundering under this president, and is about to become only a larger version of the banana republics headed by Mugabe & Chavez.

Great story. Keep mining the geneaology of this President and his cabal: Russian Comintern directed artists and civil servants in place in spite of McCarthy-- Red-diaper babies--the Weathermen and anti-war protesters wartime cooperation with USSR and China as avowed communists-- Alinsky a veiled Communist-- the guilt of the well-educated-- establishment of ACORN by Alinsky-inspired Weathermen-- identity politics-- establishmentof SEIU by Alinsky-inspired former Weatherman-- Black liberation theology-- the ethos of Web 2.0 (it's all about change). the rise of a partisan Alinsky state-- use of SEIU/ACORN employees as Brown Shirts.

1 posted on 05/28/2009 7:36:58 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Anyone shocked?


2 posted on 05/28/2009 7:39:28 AM PDT by fml
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To: IbJensen

Car czar’s wife is top Dim fundraiser. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.


3 posted on 05/28/2009 7:40:07 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: IbJensen

We’ve got to get a list of the owners who were NOT shut down, and look at their contributions.

Could be that all dealerships donate to pubbies and not to rats.

Let’s not go off half-cocked.


4 posted on 05/28/2009 7:40:09 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: IbJensen

Bump!!!


5 posted on 05/28/2009 7:40:16 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: IbJensen

The left is claiming that 90% of the dealers were republican to begin with, so this is a non-issue. Does anyone know if this is true?


6 posted on 05/28/2009 7:40:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: fml
Everything he's done has been to reward his supporters and acolytes.
7 posted on 05/28/2009 7:40:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Everything he’s done has been true to form for a racist/collectivist.

The recipients of “stimulus” are overwhelmingly “minority”, while those who are targeted for tax increases are overwhelmingly not minority.

Also, punishing, and outright extermination, of political opponents is commonplace in history for collectivist regimes.


9 posted on 05/28/2009 7:44:23 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No demographic in the world would make that one true...


10 posted on 05/28/2009 7:44:27 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s the most important question- I don’t see it’s been addressed yet. If most are GOP to start with- this might not be a story. While Steve Rattner seems perfectly capable of this kind of action- I don’t know if the administration is stupid enough to try a stunt like this.


11 posted on 05/28/2009 7:44:40 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: IbJensen

But this doesn’t have anything to do with glowbull warming, Bush, Cheney or gay rights. It’s a non story.


12 posted on 05/28/2009 7:44:56 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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After about a year check up on the “Diversity” of surviving dealership owners. Oh well! People voted for “Change” they just did look closely at what the Third World divinity meant by “change.”


13 posted on 05/28/2009 7:45:07 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Everything he's done has been to reward his supporters and acolytes

He is no different than Richard Daley was in the 60's.

14 posted on 05/28/2009 7:46:21 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: STARWISE

fyi


15 posted on 05/28/2009 7:48:50 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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Another post around here recently seemed to say that the closed dealers weren’t just Republican donors; some were Hillary! donors in the primaries.


17 posted on 05/28/2009 7:49:21 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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I am SURE of one thing. If a REPUBLICAN (fill in the office) closed, for politcal reasons, a single obscure PIZZA emporium, the national media would be having a collective stroke. Half the forests in the country would vanish to make newsprint to cover the “PizzaGate”. Fully half of TV newstime would be devoted to the Moral Scandal by another Republican. The unemployed pizza makers would be interviewed, their stories told in poem and song. Oh, the horror.
The US MEDIA, the greatest threat to the 1st amendment.


18 posted on 05/28/2009 7:49:22 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views.)
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To: HarriedHarry

“A vast majority of car dealers appear to be Republicans to begin with. It only stands to reason that when a lot of dealers are closed that a lot of them would be republicans.”

My first question is - why close profitable businesses at all?

If it’s true they’re trying to “help” matters - why are they making it more difficult to buy these cars?

As for the numbers....the logical approach is to figure out the overall percentage of republican leaning dealer owners throughout the industry as a whole - then compare that number to the hit list.

I’ve noticed, however, this isn’t just about republican donations.
I’ve read some of these dealers contributed to other democrats besides Obama.

So - on top of the number crunching - the administration is going to have to address their reasoning behind choosing the winners and losers.


19 posted on 05/28/2009 7:53:55 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: DuncanWaring

One was a Hillary donor. This is a Purge.


20 posted on 05/28/2009 7:54:30 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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