[SmokingJoe]

“What’s the real, honest to God chance, that we will NOT bail out the auto industry “

This is the deal.
The RATS may have the votes to do it, come January. The idea is for Republicans to oppose them every step of the way, and use it as a clarion call to energize the base. If past record, and what happened after the $700 billion bailout is any indication, no amount of bailout money will save GM or Ford or Chrysler, so let the fallout fall on the Dims. Dailmer Benz pumped in billions of dollars into Chrysler, and got exactly nowhere. They were finally forced to walk out. If Daimler Benz couldn't do it, no amount of Government bailout is going to save these moribund US car firms.

[spacejunkie01]

thanks joe....have we heard much yet about how the R’s in congress are commenting so far?? I know that’s not the best metric as there were a good number of R’s against the idiotic bailout (that’s NOT working) and then, suddenly, they come around and vote for it.

But, are we seeing resistance on this and what are the odds the R’s stand firm and let them go down?

[hunter112]

The Rats will bail it out, guaranteed. Where else in America are there as many African-Americans making sizable wages? OK, big government. But they're not being put out of business by the Japanese and Koreans.

The UAW will get the first slice of "pie".

[Cringing Negativism Network]

A “clarion call to energize the base”??

Wanting an American company to fail, energizes the base?

What have we become?