How about a trade!?!? We’ll see you one Auto Bailout and Raise you a Stimulus package, provided…. WE GET OUR JUDGES you communists have been illegally blocking from being appointed!!!

To quote… well… ME…

Joe Lieberman if knowing he’d be thrown out the D caucus anyway, he could (SHOULD) join us NOW! This will return to a 50/50 for this the/an “interim” (transition) session of Congress! Let him work with us (gang of 14 style) to (at least, split) the remaining open appointments that President Bush HAS A RIGHT TO APPOINT to the Judicial Benches!

If Barack wants Republican (actually, ANY) respect, let him EARN IT! Let him step up, and actually/finally do the right thing. Make him stand up and be counted, no “Present button.” Make him choose to say that Judges should come to the Floor for UP/DOWN without delay and/or obstruction (if even for only a compromised number, half, the available seats. We would have to, in turn, offer no obstruction, or equal cooperation, for the other half – If they earn it!).

Needless to say, I will not hold my breath.

I question the value of any trade agreement with such a chaotic and violent nation.

With all our problems, Isn’t this like number 500 on the to do list?

Cal Thomas wrote an article where he quotes Heritage Foundation.

If Washington really wants to help Detroit, they could end the regulatory nightmare that prevents profitable, fuel-efficient cars from reaching market. Ford has begun selling a car that gets 65 mpg, but they’re not selling it in America. Why? Because it runs on diesel fuel “and environmentalists in the U.S. have fought to keep diesel taxes high and refinery capacity low.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

I understand that UAW heads were at the meeting in Washington yesterday. Obama is beholden to the Unions as they elected him in large part. He must protect their interests, and you can’t do that with non-existent companies and non-existent union workers and their dues.

Obama said he would bankrupt the Coal industry. What will happen with all of the United Mine Workers union workers? Does he owe the unions more than the environmentalists?

Obamunism is nonsensical on it’s face

Yes, let’s bail out an industry that hasn’t done one thing right in almost 30 years thus draining their available cash to nothing. This is a poor investment, I am all about Americans working but the auto industry has no inovative ideas to draw from and will blow through whatever money is given them quickly.

If they take a bailout, then my first demand is they all hire a top japanese executive to come over and head each company. With that they will bring over engineers and in turn it will make each American comapny into a japanese company on American soil.

The Democrats get a large source of money from rich people who care about the environment. If you check those $100,000 plus people who say they support Obama I bet:

• They are anti drilling

• Want tougher emission standards

• care about the polar bear.

  This is the group that is help to kill the auto industry. So to keep the votes of people in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana they show they care about the auto industry that they give them lots of our tax payer money.

  Years ago when there was a bailout package for Chrysler at least Chrysler was given a whole lot of conditions to be asking for the money in parts.

  I hear no tough conditions being given out at all.

  Walter Hanson
  Minneapolis, MN

Fox news is reporting that discussions on a quid pro quo between Pres. Bush and Sen. Obama of auto bailout for the Columbia free Trade agreement did not happen.

It is a false report. – FYI

I don’t really think there is much impact to saying Uribe “restored the state’s law enforcement role”, while citing the fact that “only” 26 labor activists/leaders have been killed this year, as opposed to 196 before that.

The existence of rule-of-law doesn’t smell, to me, like something that’s a question of degree, it either exists or it doesn’t. It makes just as much sense to say that the reason for the lower death toll is that more people worth killing had already been eliminated, as it does to say Uribe has restored rule of law.

All I’m saying is, if one is trying to make the case for the Columbia FTA, you’ll have to do more than this to knock out the RoL argument.

is throwing an American ally under the bus. That shows the same foreign policy misjudgement that led to the American hostage crisis in Iran in ’79-’81. We should fear for our national security if we have a president that wants to be liked more than respected. They’ll play him like a cheap fiddle.

I also hate the auto bailout. We should fight it all the way. Especially if we lose John Dingell. But this could also be the first fracturing of the Democratic coalition. When labor butt up against the enviro-wackos. I hope Republicans, like Reagan, would be smart enough to take advantage.