Worst Scandal Yet - More Than Watergate or Clinton's Lewinsky

http://www.dailypaul.com ^ | 09/09/2009 | TheKingIsComing

[babygene]

OBAMA THE CROOK.

It Looks like Chrysler was Railroaded

This could be a scandal of epic proportions and one that makes Nixon's Watergate or Clinton 's Monica Lewinsky affair pale by comparison. Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?

Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and federal government "graciously" offered to "buy the company" and keep them out of bankruptcy and "save jobs."

Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration, "Too big to fail," same story with GM.

The feds organized their "Automotive Task Force" to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House's official Car Czar - literally, that's what his title is.

Rattner is the liaison between Obama, Chrysler, and GM.

Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler 'had made this list of dealerships'. Not true!

The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox News and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the "Automotive Task Force" headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.

Now the plot thickens.

Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?

Actually there's a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down. Again, on May 27, 2009, The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.

Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes. The only "Democratic" dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary's campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards. This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama's campaign.

Does that seem a little odd to you?

Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together. Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White. Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation- Republican or Democrat. But of course, this is just a wacky "coincidence, we're certain.

Then comes another really wacky "coincidence."

On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas, North Louisiana, and Southern Missouri. It seems that Bill Clinton's former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealership in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.

Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.

These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed - not one!

While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealerships were!

Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down. Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have a virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone.

Isn't that amazing?

Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story's there, and it's in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn't being made up.

Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat,you are mistaken. Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union!

Fiat owns 20%.

The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded on the stock market. Obama smiles and says he doesn't want to run the auto industry.

As horrifying as this is to comprehend, and being as how this used to be the United States of America, it would appear that the president has the power to destroy private businesses and eliminate upwards of 100,000 jobs just because they don't agree with his political agenda.

This is Nazi Germany stuff, and it's happening right here, right now, our back yard.

There are voices in Washington demanding an explanation, but the "Automotive Task Force" has released no information to the public or to any of the senators demanding answers for what has been done.

Keep your ear to the ground for more on this story. If you've ever wanted to make a difference about anything in your life, get on the phone to your national senator or representative in the House and demand an investigation into this.

Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said, "All that's necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

Car Czar No More

An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama's Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced by forme rsteel workers union boss Ron Bloom. According to CBS News, Rattner left "to return to private life and spend time with his family."

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, "I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future."

By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York.

Uh-oh!

But, we're certain that had nothing to do with his resignation.

And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he's being investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships. Really? Again, that couldn't have anything to with his resignation-that's ridiculous! Like CBS said, this guy just wants to "spend more quality time with his family

Obama has 32 personally appointed "czars" who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority.

But hey, we're sure they all have "unique skills,"......as Tim Geithner likes to say!

SOOOOO….HOW’S THE CHANGE WORKING FOR YOU?…..

Check it out at the following websites.....

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot..com/2009/05/hope-change-car-czar-behind-chrysler.html (Link seems to be broken) (Link seems to be broken)

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-auto-policy-All-in-the-Democratic-family-44414452.html

This goes beyond corruption in high places - to gross criminal actions on the part of our government! I hope you will spread this far and wide, and hopefully the taxpaying public will demand some of that transparency we were promised......followed by criminal prosecution of the perpetrators!

What a crooked government, we have!!!!! Vote 'em all out. November, 2010!

[GreyFriar]

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[tutstar]

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[no-s]

Snopes says this is a FALSE story.

If you read the analyses cited in the snopes story, the ratios cited indicate republican-contributing dealers were more likely to close. None of the cited analyses seem to directly address the point about bias towards leaving dem-contributing=dealerships open in competitive areas. It even misrepresents the ratios in the FOX analysis, treating 8:12 as equivalent to 10:14 (and it rounds the values too).

This Snopes article seems to shade or choose support to yield the desired conclusion. I would say the issue is still open and Snopes does not add clarity.

[Mad_as_heck]

I’m sorry to say that I agree with you 100%. My strong inclination to avoid both union and Chinese goods makes shopping a difficult experience.

My family has suffered enormously from the destruction of GM and we resent GM, Obama, Congress, and the UAW very much. The UAW is an economic terrorist and extortion organization - organized crime - and I simply can’t express my loathing and contempt for it. It should be smashed with an iron fist.

[Lazamataz]

Good article.

[babygene]

“Snopes says this is a FALSE story.”

Well, that settles it I guess... No agenda in that organization. Their kind of like the supreme court. The final arbitrators.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes.

One week before the election, that fact alone needs to be in every Republican candidate's ad campaign.

[Jacktown]

The McClarty part of the story is true. He also made out like a bandit in the natural gas industry and nearly broke that company doing it.

He was crooked way back when.

[earlJam]

Fox News also reported that this was not true.

If this was true, I think we would have heard more about it since the article was originally published over a year ago.

[babygene]

“Good article.”

Thanks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

then you drive the dollar to all-time lows against the Yen and Korean currency and....VOILA....

[PMAS]

FactCheck is funded by the Annenberg Foundation, they also funded Bill Ayers in the Chicago Annenberg Foundation, where Obama and Ayers worked together.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Wait until they apply this criteria to healthcare.

“Your grandma is a registered Republican? Sorry, she won’t be getting that hip replacement.”

[Gabrial]

“Well, that settles it I guess... No agenda in that organization. Their kind of like the supreme court. The final arbitrators.”

I never claimed support or trust of Snopes. That is why I prefaced my comment with “FWIW”

However, FOX has debunked this story, Drudge won't touch it, and I have seen no data to support it.

The Wall Street Journal covered it extensively and never claimed there was political bias.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124231125953119515.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704152804574628293363885148.html

WND started this rumor as far as I can tell, which is one of the problems I have with WND. I have found them to only be partially reliable.

[earlJam]

But Fox News is not.

[Republic of Texas]

Loral was a bigger scandal than Lewinsky or Watergate for that matter. It was ignored. Clinton GAVE the Chinese missile superiority for cash and we did nothing. What makes anyone think this is going anywhere productive.

[Gabrial]

Not sure what happened to the links, but here they are again.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124231125953119515.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704152804574628293363885148.html

[earlJam]

The Heritage Foundation, not a liberal think tank, also debunked this claim. Here is a table from their in-depth analysis. It shows no correlation between closings and political contributions.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/07/closing-car-dealerships-a-matter-of-economics-not-politics

[Responsibility2nd]

“The Heritage Foundation, not a liberal think tank, also debunked this claim. Here is a table from their in-depth analysis. It shows no correlation between closings and political contributions.”

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I respect the Heritage Foundation, but they are wrong.

Nice graph here, but....

This does not show the SALES VOLUMES of these closed dealerships.

Far more successful, money making GOP delaerships were closed over less profitable democrat dealerships.

How do you explain that?

[jimt]

I didn’t see anything in that article that was new.

I did.

While charges were made that the closures were politically biased, I have never seen numbers that PROVE it. These do.

Even as an old article, many thanks for the post BabyGene.