Here’s a simple economic fact of American life: if working families aren’t doing well, then the economy is seriously in the tank for almost everyone.
Here’s a simple political fact of American life: if working families aren’t doing well, your political party is seriously in the tank to almost everyone.
The republican party doesn’t know this and doesn’t care. You don’t stand around doing nothing and watch hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs go down the tubes. Union jobs. With health insurance.
One hundred fifty republican House members voted against HR 7321, the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act.
From Digby:
…This is really beyond destructive. These people are willing to take down the entire economy so they can bust the unions and prop up a completely discredited ideology with the bodies of middle class Americans who are losing everything…
How did the Missouri delegation vote?:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 690
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 7321 RECORDED VOTE 10-Dec-2008 8:46 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring ActAYES
Carnahan
Clay
Cleaver
Emerson
SkeltonNOES
Akin
Blunt
Graves
Hulshof
Yep, Governor Kenny would have been a disaster.
I bet you Kay Barnes is looking pretty good right now to any labor households in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District.
Organized labor needs to remember this vote. Education can be a powerful thing.
Which Side Are You On?
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calling unions a barnacle on the neck of the auto-industry which had to be removed before he could suppport a bailout. Up until a specific question from the interviewer, the Republicans interviewed had avoided saying the word “union,” but in response they practically begin to choke on the venom they were spitting up. I am not a punitive person, but sometimes I really hope some politicians have to pay for their malice and stupidity.
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