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This is the very definition of how a fact-free story gets life through an attractive narrative.
The GOP isn't trying to kill these companies. They'd like to save them. They offered to help save them, on the condition that the companies and the union face up to the same kinds of brutal, neccessary cuts that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization would provide for -- WILL provide for, at some point in the near future if profitability isn't achieved.
You all think that the GOP doesn't care about, or believe in, these companies. That's untrue, although there is one Congressman who doesn't mind at all suggesting that he doesn't care about them. That's Barney Frank, (D-MA), who said this:
"No. We’re not propping up companies. That’s your mistake," {Rep. Frank, talking to CBS 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl} "We’re propping up individuals. The world doesn't consist of companies. The world is people. The country is people."
Read: We are in this to take care of the UAW, the profitabality of the Detroit Three be damned.
That's the same kind of warfare that other House and Senate Democrats hav been waging on Detroit for years. Case in point: CAFE standards and emissions requirements. CAFE standards do nothing, and certainly not what proponents claim. They don't reduce gasoline consumption. Or carbon emissions. Higher gasoline prices do that. And of course that is what European nations do, with even more wacko green politicians than in the U.S. They tax gasoline. They don't have CAFE standards.
Then there is the current battle over emissions standards, with California Democrats wanting to impose 50 individual state standards in lieu of a single, comprehensible national standard.
Both of these penalties that are uniquely punitive to the Detroit Three can't be removed because of one thing. The Democrats' slavish adherence to the demands of their environmental donors, the Sierra Club & Co.
It is shameful. Talk about stories that aren't getting proper coverage in the mainstream press.
