I'm with you. I'm from the South and I live in the South. Fuck the stupid South.

Let me suggest to you what is happening in these congressional events:

The GOP has spent the last eight years,('scuze me), the last one hundred years suckling at the bosom of the Banking Cartel. But the cartel saw what was coming in '08 and changed mounts, tossing the GOP off (They don't like losers) in favor of the Dem leadership, who was only too happy to ditch their loyal constituency for the glamor of Wall Street. To show their fealty to the Bankers, the Dems had to make the $700 billion bailout happen.

The GOP, realizing this, turned to grassroots, something they hadn't smoked since the Gingrich days. They rose in opposition to the Bankers' Mother-of-all-Bailouts and with the help of backbench Dems, shot it down in Congress. Needless to say, the Bankers' Cartel was livid, and immediately called on their Senatwhores to basically violate the Constitution and originate an appropriation bill in the Senate. The Bailout was then raised from the ashes and passed.

The GOP now knows that grassroots is their ticket back to power, and with the speed of unfolding events, they will not even have to wait until the off-year elections. They will go after Obama with a passion without ever mentioning the Banking Cartel. Why? They want to return to their favorite milky mammary.

Obama and his weak majority will be leaned on by the Banking Cartel and expected to use any Constitutional corruption they can find to maintain power. Lest we not forget that Vice Prez Biden is the Banking Cartel's Number One Senatwhore from the Banking Monarchy of Delaware, who led and greased the passage of the Bankruptcy Law that eliminated your and my right to file for protection against the sharks.

This is gonna get real messy, real soon.

After which these same companies will lay off millions of american workers.

On top of the millions of jobs lost due to the failure of the US auto industry.

Both causing the loss of millions of other jobs. It's a downward spiral. Every job lost burdens another worker to support the unemployed worker, leveraging the loss.

It will be years before you reach the bottom, and by then the US middle class will be long gone. Those will become poor. In turn, the poor will become destitute. The destitute will become desperate. And the desperate are dangerous, especially when there are a lot of them.

Thanks for telling about yourself. You appear to be a regular 21st Century American. So please do not make assumptions about us in Detroit. Everybody here, almost, already has been laid off, with no Jobs Bank. We are just regular people hoping for a $12/hour job to get us through.

And we want you to support the loans to the auto companies, so that we may possibly get our real jobs back in a couple more years, when we hope the auto companies who laid us off will get back on track.

Here's a thought. How about Americans, and Salon.com, look outwards for a change? Like, explore the rest of the planet. There's interesting, heinous, and even good stuff going on elsewhere. Honest.

As a friend, and a subscriber, I think you guys need reminding, with all respect, that the Universe doesn't revolve around you. I subscribed because of your great writers (and yes, your liberal bent). But I didn't know that I was subscribing to more American news, all day, every day, all the time.

I thought Salon was something different. Hello? Look outwards on occasion?

But only because they're more reliable, look better, and burn less gas. I'm kinda quirky that way.

GM is a crap industry with a crap product. I feel bad for all the people who will be out of work but please, don't make me work twice as hard just to save some other poor SOB, especially not for a product I know to be shit.

Let GM fail and pass a law that gives any severance going to executives who run their companies into the grounds to be returned and divvied up amongst the people who actually served the company--the workers.

I've got close friends that work at Nissan. Every time a Union contract comes up the workers vote it down. The reason is that Nissan takes very good care of its employees. There's a 3 year long waiting list for employment there and that's primarily because it's such an excellent company to work for. As for the bailout; even as a Democrat I do NOT support a bailout for any major corporation. Not banks, or investment firms, and definately not auto makers. These execs are just trying to take advantage of an opportunity. They're not going to let their companies go under, you didn't hear a peep out of them until Wall Street got its handout. Every bit of this is a sham. I say let them go under. Then they'll restructure, hopefully with a focus on quality and treating their workers a little better WITHOUT the protection of a Union... like those foreign companies.

By nuking the auto bailout deal because UAW did not bend over clearly shows that inspite of a crushing defeat, the GOP still bats for the Uber-rich and refuses to cater to the middle-class voter.

The GOP is determined to crush UAW, bring down the wage of the working class down to Thailand or Philippines workers wage and continue to serve its base: the ultra rich.

The auto companies may not be the best candidates for a bailout, but by forcing the UAW to accept negative wages while continuing to pay their CEOs extra-money, the GOP has shown its true colors.

Until the GOP is completely and utterly crushed by the voters and punished by them with a maximum of THREE seats in congress and senate, the GOP will continue to serve its masters: The Richest of the Richest.

In 2010, the voters should push the GOP to the fringe of the seats by continuing to defeat them in droves.

Remember voters: It doesn't matter if your GOP congresscritter is nice to you: GOP == BAD.

Defeat every single GOP candidate, and continue to defeat them in elections until there are no republicans left in congress and senate.

Awake, Arise and stop not till the goal is reached.