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Detroit: Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/19/2008 7:08:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Barney Frank favors bailing out the Detroit automakers over letting them go into bankruptcy. Chief among his concerns is that bankruptcy might "bust" the unions. You know, those organizations whose contract demands have put Detroit on the brink of extinction.

The Massachusetts Dem, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was interviewed by Maggie Rodriguez on today's Early Show. He appeared alongside Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Al.), ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, who favors letting the automakers reorganize under Chapter 11.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan
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1 posted on 11/19/2008 7:08:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Barney’s touching concern for auto unions ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 11/19/2008 7:09:53 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Barney Frank. What a piece of feces. And we’ve got 4 years to ignore him.


3 posted on 11/19/2008 7:11:44 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That’s the idea Barney! By the way, I hear the GM CEO’s private plane is parked at Dulles. Cost to fly to Washington from Detroit = $20,000.


4 posted on 11/19/2008 7:13:08 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: tgusa

He has to run for reelection every two years. That aside, unless he dies in the meantime, he is a shoo in for reelection.


5 posted on 11/19/2008 7:14:29 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bawney Fag, as usual, is completely wrong. Detroit must break the unions in order to survive. Any bailout that doesn’t include breaking the union contracts is useless. The UAW will just continue to bleed the Big 3 and ensure their inevitable failure.


6 posted on 11/19/2008 7:14:58 AM PST by Astronaut
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If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.


7 posted on 11/19/2008 7:15:43 AM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Barney Fag along with Chris Dodd already caused the Fannie/Freddie meltdown. Might as well at Detroit meltdown to his resume.


8 posted on 11/19/2008 7:17:45 AM PST by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

ALL those campaign donations HAVE to be paid off!


9 posted on 11/19/2008 7:18:46 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Detroit: Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions

Lansing: absolootezer0 HOPES bankruptcy busts unions
10 posted on 11/19/2008 7:19:11 AM PST by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

He’ll be in the limelight as long as Obama, Reid and Pelosi remain in power, and the media will swoon every time he sees a microphone and waddles over to it.


11 posted on 11/19/2008 7:19:13 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

This reprobate has never had a real job. He has a law degree but never practiced. It is currently inactive. When he graduated from Harvard Law he stayed in the dorms as an RA, trolling the halls for intoxicated closet cases. Then when Fr. Drinan gave up his seat Barney went to DC, where he trolled the halls looking for intoxicated closet cases. That folks is the story of Barney Frank’s pathetic life.


12 posted on 11/19/2008 7:21:28 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
This is the same idiot who blocked attempts to get Fannie Mae under control.

In other words — he is one of the main architects of the current financial “crisis”.

In a sane world he would have lost all authority in Congress.

13 posted on 11/19/2008 7:23:59 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Mogollon

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14 posted on 11/19/2008 7:25:33 AM PST by Mogollon (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I DO NOT want my tax dollars spent giving these union guys better health care (FREE) than the rest of us pay for. Eff 'em.

If Detroit can't afford the stupid bargain the got with Union shakedown goons - don't expect the rest of us to pick it up.

15 posted on 11/19/2008 7:25:53 AM PST by GOPJ (Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1 -Olson)
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"That folks is the story of Barney Frank’s pathetic life."

Except that now Bwanny has screwed all of America.

16 posted on 11/19/2008 7:26:28 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Mogollon

Ahhh....Snow Lake.


17 posted on 11/19/2008 7:27:04 AM PST by Mashood
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions"

Like that's a bad thing?

(Posted by a union member of the involuntary variety.)
18 posted on 11/19/2008 7:27:50 AM PST by shibumi (...vampire outlaw of the milky way...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah Barney that is the whole reason to let them go!

The Unions are no different than the greedy Wall-Street crooks and corrupt politicians.

They have NO place in the great old USA.


19 posted on 11/19/2008 7:28:40 AM PST by surfer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Get it right Barney...the Unions are busting the Auto Industry!!!


20 posted on 11/19/2008 7:30:40 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. - Abraham Lincoln)
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