| Unable to take car of busniess, to enthralled in | | | | what that might mean down the road. The funds |
| padding their own pockets, and begging at the | | | | are designed to last until March, giving the |
| Capitol Building were the three automobile head | | | | incoming Obama administration and the new |
| honchos last week. Top executives from the | | | | Congress time to consider the issue anew. Racing |
| Detroit automakers spent two consecutive days | | | | to seal a deal with the White House, Democratic |
| on Capitol Hill pleading for $34 billion in loans to help | | | | congressional leaders dispatched aides Saturday to |
| the industry survive. Not understanding the | | | | draft an emergency $15 billion aid package to pull |
| circumstances under which they were about to | | | | Detroit's Big Three automakers from the brink of |
| abandon, their jobs, all three men greedily having | | | | collapse. |
| asked two weeks previous for $25 BILLION had | | | | Let em collapse say the majority of Americans! |
| now arrogantly upped that amount to $34 | | | | Capitol Hill leaders prepared to sell yet another |
| BILLION! | | | | bailout to a skeptical Congress. It is an uphill battle: |
| Are we supposed to believe that they have a | | | | The anger is fresh over how the Bush |
| clue as to how to run their business or what it will | | | | administration used the $700 billion Wall Street |
| take when they change the amount of money | | | | rescue fund and lawmakers are questioning |
| they want by NINE BILLION in just two weeks. | | | | whether the once-mighty auto giants can survive. |
| Does anyone think that $34 BILLION is all they'll | | | | Unless there is a major change in how the "Little |
| need or will they be like AIG and others who've | | | | Three" change how they do business it is over! |
| come to the governmental money window asking | | | | General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and |
| for more and more? | | | | Chrysler LLC can't continue as they are. |
| Can a car czar do better? | | | | And Washington concerned by massive job losses |
| A proposed government "car czar" would | | | | that provided the latest evidence of a deepening |
| oversee any bailout of U.S. automakers under | | | | recession, the White House said it was in |
| terms being negotiated by the White House and | | | | "constructive discussions" with lawmakers in both |
| Congress for extending billions in emergency loans | | | | parties on the assistance. House and Senate |
| to the auto giants. Sources familiar with the plan | | | | Democratic staff aides worked through the |
| for oversight by an official within the executive | | | | weekend to hammer out details, with votes on |
| branch said Saturday conditions were not final as | | | | the plan expected in the week ahead. Who do we |
| Democratic leaders and the White House tried to | | | | think we're kidding with all these GIVE AWAY |
| cut a deal. | | | | programs? |
| One leadership aide said both sides favored | | | | And what makes us a think some car czar can |
| creation of a "car czar" role to ensure proposed | | | | be the savior of the American car industry? |
| conditions were met while having no clue as to | | | | |