Look for Shelby to come under attack this week

[Truth Teller]

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I look for the push back this week to be in the form of union leaders, some members of Congress and various members of the press concentrating on all the concessions states like Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee made to bring those foreign car plants to their states, which as relatively new industries do not have all the "legacy" costs of the Big Three, such as an aging retired work force and the benefits they are owed.


I even heard one number -- $126,000 per worker -- tossed around as the amount in waived taxes and other benefits Alabama granted Mercedes-Benz to come to Shelby's home state and county. Look for more of that kind of analysis and more precise such numbers to be rolled out as the question is increasingly asked, "if you think it is all right for your state to throw money at foreign automakers, why are you blocking federal loans to keep the Big Three alive?"


The one thing I don't quite get yet is why Shelby made such a big splash at the beginning of the month and has now faded somewhat into the background, although he now is always one of those "Southern senators" mentioned by name in stories about the blockage of the bailout bill.

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http://politibits.tuscaloosanews.com/default.asp?item=2299640

[hay rick]

1. Look for the media to look the other way.

I hope you're right and I'm wrong.

[Truth Teller]

2. Well it aint me

But I hope whoever wrote the article is right. :)

[fumsm]

3. F..THE MEDIA1

They won't do it. No balls and controlled by the gop. If they were going to do it, it would have happened when that prick shelby and his little prick holder Corker were out spewing the last three weeks. All the info is out there, they just choose to ignore it. How convenient.

I work in the auto supply industry. If they go down, so will the suppliers. It will take years to build a new supplier base just to fill the needs of the implants. But with no one able to afford new cars, it won't matter much. Can't see Walmart employees buying a 25-30k Prius.

GOP screwing the unions, while screwing the people for voting them out. Still people don't get it.

[FarCenter]

4. Don't forget that Shelby chaired the Senate Banking Committee

He suceeded Phil Gramm in 2003 and chaired the Senate Banking Committee until 2007, when Senator Dodd took the chair.

He, more than anyone else in the Senate, has to answer from the debacle in banking and financial regulation.

[gravity]

5. He needs to get smacked

The only thing he does is whine and complains, while offering nothing constructive. He is excessively obstructive, even for Republican standards.