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Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Meet the GOP's wrecking crew

Why did a small group of Southern Republicans turn the auto bailout into a demolition derby? Introducing the senators who hate unions and love foreign cars.

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  • Saturday, December 13, 2008 04:29 AM

    It is the Civil War all over again and The North Just Lost.

    Deeply Posted This on his blog Yesterday in the wee hours of the morning.

    3:10 Am EST Friday, December 12, 2008

    It is the Civil War all over again and The North Just Lost.

    Way to go and hurrah for the tassel toed Wall Street Weasels and the Southern Crackers Too. Ever since the Rat aka Ronald Reagan went after the Air Traffic Controllers the Republican Party has heightened their agenda of destroying the unions in America. This means destroying business, the means of production, the driving consumption force of the American economy and the middle class. Way To Go Republicans. You have joined the South, turned traitor to your nation and have unleashed a rampage of economic despair and destruction.

    The unions: As much as anyone who thinks he is special, unique, better, superior, or harder working wishes to think he does not need unions..he does. Without the union movement there would have been no middle class in America, without the closed shop there would have been no unions.

    For ever the south has been against Unions. It was a land of boobs and bubbas and poverty and green teeth despair. And forever the greed besotted Republicans have been against the working man in America. Today a few Senators from southern states, the senate,appropriately the most unrepresentative body in the Congress,...a branch of the legislature where itty bitty backward states have the same voice as big states...have voted against the UAW, the people, and the middle class, because they say the UAW contracts pay workers too much...more per hour than the sweetheart deals the same senator's states have given to foreign manufactures.

    What can one say? Rampant hypocrisy on the part of senators Shelby and company as they support foreign auto company subsidies in their states and try to wipe out the unions in the North. Rampant sleaze as they use the same destruction of the wage base of the nation they gave to BMW and Mercedes and Toyota and Honda to now destroy the unions of the North.

    Their vote was not so much a vote against poorly run companies as it was a vote against the working men and women of America and the union movement. The South Will Rise Again. *uck the South!

    It is the Civil War all over again and The North Just Lost.

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