43 Punts, 44 to Receive

 

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OK, Bush grudgingly gave GM and Chrysler, imminent merger partners, enough money to operate *hopefully* until Obama has taken the reigns. We knew this would happen last weekend so why did it take all week? Normal slobs can only guess. Therefore, I will.

I reckon it took two or three days just to convince Bush, or whoever does his thinking, that bankruptcy is just a bad idea if the intent is really to keep the Big 3 and the roughly three million interconnected auto jobs going. The rest of the week must have been spent trying to line up enough deals among muckraking Republican congressmen to shut the fuck up about it for a month or two. Bridge to Nowhere money will flow to Alabama and Tennessee in particular next year. What a bunch of pricks. Look around, the Europeans are going through the same shit to save their car companies.

Since when does Congress have the answers? These sacks were on the clock when all of the bad shit went down in the first place but three CEOs and one union in Detroit ruined their entire industry? If the Big 3 had already been making cheap carbon fiber cars that ran on fresh air nobody could still get a fucking loan for one! These Capitol Clowns will screw this pooch for a very long time.