So it looks as if Bush and his cabal is setting Corker up to run for Pres...

[WCGreen]

According to a MS-NBC story, Corker is a new rising star in the Senate..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28179431

Here's what I think has happened behinf the scenes. Bush and his dwindling supporters are convinced that letting the Auto industry go the way of buggy makers would be the last straw in how history would define the Bush Administration. But they also wanted to punish the Unions for their unequivocal support of democrats. They feel that this their "Air Traffic controllers" moment. You know when Ronnie broke the back of the Union Movement early in his Administration by firing every single controller.

Anyway, they let the Senate deal fall apart making Reid look like the fool he is knowing full well that Bush was going to step in at the last moment and use TARP money to save the day.

The result...

Reid gets played again.

Bush comes to the rescue and goes out on a winning note.

Corker, a moderate Republican, at least in comparison to the other Neanderthals lurking on that side of the aisle, is vaulted to the front of a pack and is portrayed, by the press, as the voice of reason in all of this. He's going to be the new face of the GOP in 2012. Palin even scares Bush.

The Union Movement has suffered a public relations disaster not for anything they did but because the Reid led Senate Democrats got out maneuvered again. He is the weakest link.

Folks, the Treasury stepping in to bail out the big three is a win win for the GOP. They stood up for their corporate masters by making it look like they stood up against them, they made Reid look like a fool, they cut out yet another slice of the Labor movement and, the most important part of all this, vaulted Corker to the front of the pack for the 2012 presidential election.

And, the big bonus, the Senate Democrats once again look weak and ineffective to the American people.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Reminds me of a funeral home director

Pubs are addicted to that Southern thing...

[Frances]

2. Don't agree with your analysis

[firedupdem]

3. Everything is a sick fucking game with these assholes...

I think your assessment is spot on!

[Me.]

4. My View On This

Is that in the long run the ReCons will lose. This is the same behavior that has lost them 2 elections in a row. A plurality of Americans want the auto companies bailed out, a minority feel the same about wall street. The ReCons keep thinking the American people are a stupid lot while the only ones who are brain dead are the Cons who keep dancing the same dance. Labor won't lose because people see their wages going down, down down and nothing Corker can say is going to make them grateful for that. These people just don't get that when parents can't feed and clothe their kids it really makes them angry, and they know just exactly who out them in this position and where the blame lies.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. And goddamn it, they played us! Again.

Reid is the weak one, and he should go.

It really frosts me to see the Republicans do this shit to us, and we just lie there and take it.

Reid can stand up to them, and when he does, he's amazing.

But he sure didn't this time.

The Senate Democrats look weak because they are!

:grr:

[Thrill]

6. I just saw that idiot Dodd on CNN praising him

[gizmo1979]

7. Bring him on!

After this fiasco he has zero chance of winning any of the Rust belt states.The repukes can't win without Ohio or PENN.Union busting will not help the repukes one bit.Then only place it has helped them is the deep south,they alreadyhave the deep south.

[democrattotheend]

8. The Dems lose the perception game, but may have actually won the battle

Because tapping the TARP funds was their preferred solution from the beginning.

[Bucky]

9. I met Bob Corker at the Playboy party (tee-hee-hee)

Start on him now.

[AllentownJake]

10. Well their last hand picked Bush Succesor

Lost Re-Election to Webb

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

11. I think the whole deal makes the Senate Republicans look like snakes,

who dislike the blue collar working, aka Union men....while being perfectly willing to vote for $700 billion bailout for White Collar paper pushing Banking industry.

Meanwhile, Democrats look like they wanted to save auto industry workers, but Republicans obstructed the process. The message to voters, there are still not enough Democrats in congress.

Bush continues to appear incompetent and the biggest reason we are dealing with a mess.

Paulsen continues to appear totally untrustworthy.

Auto Industry management still look like the elite doofuses that they are.....

And the electorate can't wait for Obama to take the oath of office.

IMO, That's how many voters will see this thing......as they quite understand what 15 billion is when compared to 700 billion; a giant ass difference!

I'm concluding that for the long run, many voters own American made car, and American pride will take over their conscience when having to make a judgment on this whole situation. They are starting to hear "Foreign auto makers" too often to be comfortable in that Republicans weren't willing to assist the Big 3.

As for Corker, he is a pipsqueak who comes out looking the better for this, but is not and will not be presidential material......ever. It is only when compared to McConnell whose wife is Labor Secretary and Shelby who talked too much during this whole process, does Corker look quite decent.

[Shakespeare]

12. Corker is a piece of shit, and I'd love to see him destroyed.

Anti-union (anti-American) piece of shit, to be specific. FUCK him.

[Teaser]

13. Most likely answer: things are as they appear to be.

conspiracy theories are usually wrong.