What Do You Think OF This? (Chrysler/Kenosha):

[Dinger]

I will say that senselessbrenner is talking out of his ass, but Russ? Even Kohl surprised me here.

http://www.jsonline.com/business/44648977.html


"Obama draws criticism over Chrysler's plan to end Kenosha work
By Craig Gilbert and Rick Romell of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: May. 9, 2009

"I don’t want to run auto companies... . The sooner we can get out of that business, the better off we’re going to be."
- President Barack Obama, April 29

And the better off Obama will be politically.

To understand why, consider the outrage and anguish over Chrysler's decision to close its 800-employee Kenosha engine plant - as it opens a similar factory in Mexico and gets $12 billion in taxpayer help to restructure.

Democrats and Republicans in Wisconsin are not only assailing the troubled automaker over the move but, in some cases, are faulting the Obama administration for allowing it to happen.

"Given the tremendous emphasis in this administration on helping Wall Street . . . there ought to be at least equal emphasis on protecting American jobs staying in the United States," Senate Democrat Russ Feingold said. . "

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I think I heard our boy John Nichols on an NPR program today

also pretty much lambasting Obama on this issue.