Cartoon of the Day -- Willard Saves the Auto Industry, Cont.

Mendacious Mitt "Willard Scissorhands" Romney, auto industry savior! (Click to enlarge)



(Mike Luckovich, via gocomics.com)

Obama Laughs at Willard Trying to Take Credit for Auto Industry Recovery

Shake that Etch-A-Sketch, Willard! Shake it! The President is amused:

Willard Saves The Auto Industry, Part Deux

The Obama campaign has the goods on Mendacious Mitt:

Obama Addresses UAW Convention

Here's a clip from President Obama's address to the United Auto Workers convention in Washington, D.C. today, wherein he applies a blowtorch to Rethuglican asses:



(MSNBC, via TPM)

"Made in America"

A little jingoistic? Yeah, maybe. Truthful? Yeah, definitely.



Also, don't bet against Barack Obama.

Mr. Mendacity

The broken mainstream media fails over and over again to chronicle the half-truths and downright lies of most Rethuglican politicians. Aside from occasional back page "fact check" columns, the stenographers we generously call "journalists" present the lies on a platter, ready for easy public digestion without any seasoning of truth.

Thankfully, Steve Benen is performing a vital task in cataloging the lies of Willard "Mittens the Medacious" Romney each Friday. Here's his latest effort. One of the most cynical lies concerns his position on the auto industry bailout. He wants everyone to believe that private interests would have stepped in to purchase General Motors and Chrysler under a managed bankruptcy scenario, when in fact the credit markets and private financing were locked down during the economy's free-fall during that time. There was no private sector alternative, and Mittens the Mendacious knows it.

The Rethug Patriots

John Cole as a nice rundown of the countless times Rethugs have cynically questioned the patriotism of Democrats for political advantage, even though some deny it. Now wingnuts are rising in phony outrage, claiming it's the Dems that are doing the namecalling. They took offense when the excellent Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan blasted the obstruction of the Senate Rethugs on the auto loan effort as "un-American" and "unpatriotic." But she had it absolutely right, as Cole notes:

". . .I would like to ask folks how they would describe sitting U. S. Senators actively working with foreign auto manufacturers to drive down the wages of American labor because their states have heavy investments from foreign companies."

Senators Corker (R-Nissan), Shelby (R-Honda), and McConnell (R-Toyota) don't care about America losing its industrial base, and care even less about Americans losing their jobs permanently.

"Herbert Hoover" Time

Senate Rethuglicans eager to return to their "small government" roots are prepared to sabotage the proposed loan of $15 billion to GM and Chrysler, just a couple of months after approving a bailout over 45 times that size to Wall Street investment banks and insurance companies. So if it's a white collar industry, help yourself; if it's a blue collar industry, tough luck. Talk about Rethuglican class warfare. Bust those unions at any cost to America!!

In a rare moment of honesty, (Vice) President Dead-eye Dick Cheney spoke to Senate Rethugs on Wednesday, according to Politico, and warned them that this was "Herbert Hoover" time as far as allowing the automakers to fail. The ripple effect through the economy of having this key domestic industry fail would be catastrophic, according to economists of every political stripe. Millions of jobs are related to the domestic auto industry, union and non-union alike. But for for so many winger Rethugs, it's an opportunity to return to the 1930s.

Flying The Friendly Skies

The big three auto CEOs got raked over the coals today by Congress for each flying to D.C. in private corporate jets, vs. commercial flights. Members of the House Financial Services Committee ridiculed the big wigs, who are in Washington to ask for a multi-billion dollar Federal bailout of their failing companies. Rep. Gary Ackerman observed:

"It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo."

The clueless CEOs apparently don't have a problem cutting their workforces, as long as they retain the perks they've become accustomed to. If the bailout goes through, we're betting Congress will insist that their corporate jets are sold.