GOPers To Bush: No Auto Bailout Without Approval From Congress

[babylonsister]

White House pressured by lawmakers on auto bailout

White House faces pressure in Congress on auto industry bailout, still weighing options

Staff
AP News

Dec 17, 2008 06:39 EST


The Bush administration faces competing pressures from lawmakers in different congressional factions as it reviews its options for bailing out the downtrodden U.S. auto industry.

Conservative Republicans implored the White House not to use money from the $700 billion bailout for the financial sector to aid carmakers. A leading House Democrat, meanwhile, said the government should secure veto power over the companies' business decisions as part of any aid.

Bush administration officials said they were still evaluating options and attempting to avoid a disorderly bankruptcy of the companies while suggesting that concessions from all sides would need to accompany any deal.

"We're trying to do something that's responsible," said White House press secretary Dana Perino.

But a week after Congress failed to reach consensus on a $14 billion aid package for struggling General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, several lawmakers pressed for an array of terms and conditions in any deal crafted by the White House, complicating matters.

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[radfringe]

1. why do the

hooverites hate america?

[MineralMan]

3. Hooverites? Hoovers suck dirt!

Hear this: That is all.

[Kalyke]

2. Tennessee auto workers to Bob Corker: Drop Dead

As the workers and residents of this small town that launched the Saturn automobile see it, there are several villains in the collapse of the automakers' rescue plan.

But what stuns many in this place defined by the General Motors auto plant and its 4,200 workers is that no person played a larger role in the demise of autoworker hopes than their own Sen. Bob Corker (R), who is now regarded by some here with the kind of disdain reserved for traitors.

"We're deeply disappointed in Senator Corker -- that's the official statement," said Mike Herron, union chief at the GM plant here. "But actually my members want to choke him."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121204128_pf.html

[bdamomma]

4. those repigs suck who want to take down the auto industry.

the american worker means nothing to the repigs.

[kentuck]

5. It's the law.

It should be voted thru the Congress - not the White House.