Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Tally up the cost and move on, this one's a done deal. Of COURSE we shouldn't -- but its no longer up for evaluation.
All is not lost, my friend.

The chairman of the Senate banking committee said on Thursday that he did not believe there would be enough Republican support for efforts to aid floundering automobile manufacturers, raising doubts about whether Congressional leaders will call the House into a lame-duck session next week.

“Right now, I don’t think there are the votes,” the chairman, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, said, adding that he personally was in favor of using money from the $700 billion financial rescue program to help General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. But Mr. Dodd said he did not believe such a bill would get through the Senate.

“I don’t know of a single Republican who’s willing to support,” Mr. Dodd said. “So I want to be careful about bringing up a proposition that might fail in light of the fact the authority exists, and under an Obama administration there seems to be a greater willingness to deal with the issue. So there are some political considerations to be made.”

And this, of course, is why we need for the Republican Party to not implode, and not wander off into a corner by becoming the White Christian Identity Party. We need those loveable wingnuts.