Gov. Granholm Shoots Down Right-Wing Talking Points on Fox News Sunday

[Hissyspit]

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Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm appeared on "Fox News Sunday" on February 22 to discuss President Obama's economic recovery package and why supporting our domestic auto industry is so important, along with Republican Governors Pawlenty (MN) and Sanford (SC). For more, visit www.jennifergranholm.com.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Typical RATpubliCON BullShit - Blame the Unions

Almost like it was the Unions that forced Wall St to sell all those Credit Default Swaps

Forcing them to Bankruptcy court is how the RATpublCONs plan to kill off the Union. GM, and Chrysler will be "Released" from the Bargining Agreements.

[SharonRB]

2. I love my governor!

Go get 'em, Jen! :loveya:

Quite a smackdown. Thanks for posting. I didn't know she was on this morning or I would have watched.

[MichiganVote]

3. Well she held her own but nobody wants to listen to Michigan's governor

or anyone else in Michigan for that matter. Fox News and its cheerleaders are just one among many who continually deride what has been done and what will be done in this state by business, the governor and citizens. Everybody's got an opinion and not one of them has even read the damn union-GM agreements.

Disgusted.

[1gobluedem]

4. Honestly, I don't know how much more I can take

Why can't people GET IT? It's a loan, okay? L-O-A-N. Not a bailout. Augh, I am so sick of that word it's become the go-to word for everything. Good for Governor Granholm, getting in both their faces, demanding to know if they read the reports. BMW? Please. How much are they subsidized both in tax breaks here and from Germany? The demise of the textile and furniture industries? Is that what we WANT to happen to the auto industry? Let's just have no manufacturing here and become a country of fatcat investors and service providers? There is no viablity or sustainability in that. None.

For whatever reason the mainstream media has decided to make the auto industry the whipping boy for everything that is wrong with the economy, based on 1970s and 80s data, and the country and people are buying their crap. It makes me sick.

Edited for typo.

[MindMatter]

12. It is only a loan if they recover

Chrysler is not going to recover. They aren't even claiming they are going to recover. That company is owned by a private investor firm that isn't going to put any more money into it. They are going to try to find a way to create a new public company, in partnership with Fiat, that will allow them to escape while minimizing their losses. They put 7 billion down to buy the company, and they have extracted several billion in real estate holdings that they plan to keep. They have probably found ways to protect some of that first batch of loans, and they will try to do the same with the next batch. Basically they should be losing about $5bn and they are trying to get this government loan into the mix to structure a deal where they walk away without a loss.

That sucks. They made their bets and they should live with that. No way the taxpayers should be insuring these takeover hawks.

GM is a little different. It is a publicly held company that wants to remain in business. Nonetheless, the chances of them being able to pay back loans of this magnitude are slim to none. So let's not kid ourselves about that.

The more pertinent question is why we can be so quick to come up with $2 TRILLION dollars to give to the bankers -- with real connection to job creation when we can't come up with 1% of that much money to protect an industry that amounts to a million jobs or more.

[bjobotts]

5. What horseshit.Bankruptcy throws out the unions and all retiree's benefits and pensions.

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6. Republicans are so anti union they can't think. Wallace was setting her up .

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8. They had no trouble "giving" more money than that to "unstructured" banks and wall street.

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9. They don't even know how Banks spent it. Got nothing back from Banks either

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10. Only when unions are involved do they start bitching about "re structuring" and how money is spent.

[bjobotts]

11. He's about as mainstream thinking as Joe the Plummer.The majority disagrees Gov.

[CLANG]

7. Is it physically possible

to shove Pawlenty's head up Sandford's ass and vice versa at the same time? Also, adding a few gallons of crazy glue to make a permanent bond? Just asking!

[Mulehead]

13. Granholm vrs. Mooselini Debate

is something I'd like to see (at least the Granholm parts). I think progressives really need to stop justifying Fux Noise' existence and just refuse to appear. Trying to teach pigs to sing just gets the pigs mad and the teacher dirty. To paraphrase the late great Bill Hicks, trying to explain something complex to the tiny brained Fux audience is like doing card tricks in front of a dog.

Note Fux in typical Fux fashion stacking the deck with two male repug F-tards plus Gasbag Gauleiter Wallace to shout down the fiesty gal gov of Michigan. Panderin' Pawlenty should be chipping rocks in Federal prison convicted of 13 counts of manslaughter for twice vetoing bi-partisan gas tax increases (to fix the effin highway bridges) in Minnesota before the I-35W bridge collapsed in 2006. And isn't SC one of those states in the Dumbfuckistan part of Amerika that gets more in Federal tax dollars than it pays in? So you can just STFU, Sanford.

[Number23]

14. Sanford says folks in his area are asking why are companies getting a bailout and

no one is giving THEM a bailout.

Isn't one of the key goals of the stimulus in effect, a bailout of American workers and consumers? Why doesn't Sanford make that point the next time one of his constituents comes up to him and asks him that question?

[MrMickeysMom]

15. She's a Canadian by birth, so she can't be a GREAT Presidential candidate!

Four against one... Unbelievable...

So, PUT 8 ON against her... SHE'LL STILL kick their asses, including Chris Wallace.

[Mnpaul]

16. Why don't they tell the truth

GM management and the stockholders raided the pension funds to the tune of 54 billion. They used the pension funds to make their bottom line look good and now are hurting when the workers want that money. Pawlenty and Sanford want them to go into bankruptcy so they can cheat the workers out of their money. GM should have to turn over the company to the workers for the money owed.