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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Brent Bozell :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Conservative Case For Cars
by Brent Bozell
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The Obama administration's arguably unconstitutional and potentially illegal makeover/takeover of General Motors and Chrysler hit a legal road block on June 8, when Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a stay preventing Team Obama's plan to sell Chrysler to the Italian automaker Fiat. This speed bump was a great opportunity for the media to pay attention to objections to the White House's reckless executive-branch manipulation of the auto business.

Or not.

President Bush and his team were regularly savaged by the media elite if they so much as sniffed a hint of evasion over the rule of law and the bounds of constitutional authority in fighting terrorism. So why is President Obama's unprecedented intervention in the auto industry, including a TARP-fund bailout expressly ruled out by Congress, all but ignored?

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Even with the Supreme Court order, the nightly news shows of CBS and NBC gave the decision just a few seconds of air time, the equivalent of a stifled yawn, and never went anywhere near describing the strange bankruptcy proceedings the Obama administration has cooked up to manipulate the industry to its liking.

Only ABC acknowledged the Chrysler deal was "encouraged and engineered" by the Obama folks, and noticed that lawyers for the pension funds of "Indiana police, teachers and taxpayers" were stopping the sale. But even ABC suggested that these state government employees were the bad guys, like vultures hoping that they'd make more money by taking Chrysler apart.

When Enron flat-lined in 2002, these same networks laid the blame all over the Bush administration while breaking out the violins for the people whose retirement funds were ruined. With the car companies and Obama, the song sheet is reversed. No one will go to the home of a retired Indiana cop and wonder why President Obama wants to deny him money for food and pills to sell off Chrysler to a bunch of Italians.

Then there's the GM deal. Here are some of the anti-Obama arguments from plaintiff lawyers and conservatives that are going ignored on the nightly news. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Jun 11, 2009 - 11:09 AM EST
Where is the Constitutional challenge?
Why won't anyone challege the Constitutionality of the Obama administrations takeovers? There has to be someone out there that can do it.

And, by the way, those of you that say Bush started the auto bailouts, it is because president elect Obama begged him to. Bush should have let them fail, then they would have had to go through a normal bankruptcy and force the unions out. The "structured" bailout by Obama and company were designed to reward the UAW, who made no concessions and also gave them a majority stake in Chrysler and another big chunk of GM. UAW's payback was great for the multimillion dollar investment in Obama. They got moe than their money's worth.

Meanwhile Obama screwed secured bond holders, which included teacher's, police and firefighter's pension funds. So much for his promise to care for the middle class.

His "distribution of wealth" is going, not to the poor and middle class, but his cronies in the unions, his former election staff members and supporters who will stand to make millions. Those in the middle class, and the poor will not get a thing.

What he is doing cannot be legal and someone needs to file a lawsuit challenging it. If that is not done, you will see the Obama administration just take whatever they want under the guise of "it's best for the country."

I guarantee you, I'll NEVER buy either a GM or Chrysler again, nor will I deal with any company that takes taxpayer money.
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Date: Jun 11, 2009 - 2:15 AM EST
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