The Bush auto bailout package provides welcome, if flawed relief from a calamity that could cost us 3 million jobs. But the hypocrisy of the Republicans is now exposed with the release of a report revealing that foreign auto manufacturers in our country have been feeding at the public trough for many, many years. And most of their plants are located in southern states represented by the ringleaders of the Senate GOP whack job on the U.S. auto industry. (More)

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Thanks to several weeks of gutsy guidance by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House of Representatives last night approved $14 billion in loans for our battered and bruised auto industry. This morning, the Senate takes over. Barring some unforseen changes, the Republican minority will successfully filibuster the legislation, shove General Motors into bankruptcy and drive our economy into a deeper ditch. Speaker Nancy needs to abandon all hope for non-partisan comity when the new Congress convenes in January and retrofit her elbows with razor blades. The rest of us should get out our Freddy-knives for two of the architects of the coming Depression who are up for re-election in 2010 — GOP Senators Jim “No Gay or Single Mother Teachers” DeMint from South Carolina, David “Call me a Madam” Vitter from Louisiana, and 76-year-old “Mouth of the South” Richard Shelby from Alabama.  (More)

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On a hot day, my IQ usually ratchets up to about 99,  so I’m normally loathe to take on geniuses. However, I’m comfortable confronting the columnist Robert J. Samuelson for his bone-headed piece today in the Washington Post on why President-in-waiting Obama should confine his stimulus plan either to helping revive the economy, or to advancing ” a more ambitious social and economic agenda” that includes reforming health care, tackling global warming and restoring the freedom of workers to join unions. (More)

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