Reply #87: If we don't deliver here, Dems, kiss MI and the Rust Belt goodbye [View All]

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We won't win votes here on social issues alone. And beyond that it's heartless.

We've been telling these people for 8 years to vote based on bread and butter economic issues. Now they have. Macomb County, where I live, ground zero in all this, is back in the Blue column. It wasn't in 2004 or 2000.

Time to deliver. If we have to pass this auto bailout with nothing but Dem votes in the Senate we'd better goddamn do it.

No matter what you think of the Big Three, a hard landing for them would devastate Michigan. Even if they are kept afloat and dissappear gradually, it is worth the $25 billion bridge loan. It would be a total catastrophe. We were ground zero for the last Great Depression. Don't let it happen again!

Now is not the time for the Henry Waxmans of the world or others with an axe to grind against Detroit to fuck over so many working people and auto retirees and their spouses in Michigan.