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Obama didn't ask Congress about ousting Wagoner
The Hill ^ | 03/30/09 01:53 PM [ET] | Ian Swanson

Posted on 03/30/2009 1:08:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

President Obama didn’t want any advice from Congress on the decision to ask GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, according to Carl Levin (D), Michigan’s senior senator.

“He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,” Levin told reporters in a conference call Monday afternoon. “The president said he’d already decided.”

Levin said he and three other lawmakers were informed of the decision in a phone call Obama made from the Oval Office. Obama told the members of Congress that Wagoner needed to resign so that the administration could show the public it was making an effort at a fresh start with helping the auto industry, according to Levin.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: Michigan
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How do you like this Change Boys.


61 posted on 03/30/2009 1:30:45 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Behold the Power of God.

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Let my people go.

62 posted on 03/30/2009 1:30:59 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
From Names Ash Housewares:


63 posted on 03/30/2009 1:32:09 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (In Guns We Trust)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Emperor does not need to ask the Senate.
64 posted on 03/30/2009 1:32:12 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT (I will always be a Soldier)
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To: estrogen

No, that’s a step down from Lord High Almighty Savior Obama. And you don’t want be caught dissing the old boy or it’s off with your head.


65 posted on 03/30/2009 1:33:58 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
I think Wagoner "quit" before Obama could "suggest" he resign. The press releases just got the timing confused.

Why would any CEO choose to stay with all the government restraints that are being piled on each day ? Where are the Directors?

66 posted on 03/30/2009 1:33:59 PM PDT by codder too
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To: CJ Wolf
Excellent....
67 posted on 03/30/2009 1:34:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: EDINVA

No, no, no, you sure don’t get it. The union bosses give him the orders, not the other way around.


69 posted on 03/30/2009 1:37:28 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: mware
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70 posted on 03/30/2009 1:38:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Big_Monkey

Careful. You are being watched. This will be taken by Big Brother as an assassination threat. I’m serious. I really am. We have to start being careful about things like this.


71 posted on 03/30/2009 1:39:03 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Big_Monkey

To explain—they will use things like this to shut free speech on the internet down. They will brandish comments like this as actual assassination threats and conspiracies.

I’m series about this.


72 posted on 03/30/2009 1:40:38 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: Houghton M.
"We have to start being careful about things like this.

Well, it certainly wasn't intended as such. But, Barry can't keep thumbing his knows at people like Carl Levin and expect to get support when he needs it. Nancy Pelosi has already unequivocally stated that Bankruptcy is NOT an option for GM. Apparently Obama thinks otherwise.

73 posted on 03/30/2009 1:42:15 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"“He didn’t ask us about it, he informed us,”"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't King Barry own GM?

and as owner, he can fire anyone he chooses.

74 posted on 03/30/2009 1:43:21 PM PDT by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

0bama runs America. He is the government. He can fire anyone he wants at anytime, without asking permission. He is the boss, the big honcho, our very own Hitler.


75 posted on 03/30/2009 1:46:35 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Big_Monkey

If people like us don’t buy GM cars anymore ... what will save them from bankruptcy?


76 posted on 03/30/2009 1:46:42 PM PDT by Cloverfarm
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To: Cloverfarm
"If people like us don’t buy GM cars anymore ... what will save them from bankruptcy?

Apparently, an endless supply of taxpayer money.

77 posted on 03/30/2009 1:48:12 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: EDINVA
I wish he’d correspondingly axed the head of the UAW

The tyrant has already stated "Unions are part of the solution, not part of the problem".

78 posted on 03/30/2009 1:52:14 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Thus always to tyrants.")
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To: precisionshootist

I do not think it will take until the next election for a reaction to take place.

We do not have 2 years.

I have said since the inaugural (coronation) that within 6-months the wheels would fly off this administration. It looks like it will be sooner than I expected.


79 posted on 03/30/2009 1:53:57 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Electric Graffiti

I will not be a good little “Dhemmi”. I promise, that I will not be a good little “Dhemmi”.


80 posted on 03/30/2009 1:55:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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