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Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Senate GOP to UAW: Drop dead

Organized labor campaigned mightily against Southern Republican senators. So kiss that auto bailout goodbye, because now it's payback time.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Thursday, December 11, 2008 03:04 PM

    Somebody better be reading a dictionary

    I too have gone back and forth on bailing out / nationalizing the big 3 auto companies. But given the news yesterday of an additional 10 billio going to AIG to cover bets on markets that didn't even have any securities behind them I have come round.

    I want to see a Republican senator having to stand and talk from now till Jan 2. Make it a REAL filibuster. I am sick and tired of the country thinking that everything in the senate needs 60 votes to pass. Make them explain for days on end why it's better to pay all the unemployment benefits that will stack up when the manufacturers fail. Then we really will be paying people to not work.

    —slandsma Read slandsma's other letters

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