A real corker

[dougo]

CBS News:

Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said that the Obama administration's demands of General Motors and Chrysler set "a dangerous precedent."

"I think for all of us who believe in free enterprise, this is the crossing of a major threshold, and it actually should send a chill to people all across the country," Corker said.

This is incredible doublethink. The administration is asking for changes in the auto companies because we gave them billions of dollars and they're asking for more. If they don't want to make the changes, they are more than welcome to give us the damn money back. You know what's not free enterprise? Asking the government for free money, no strings attached. Corker (and the pundits who are echoing his talking points, or is it the other way around?) should be criticizing GM for wanting to go on welfare, not the administration for offering them a deal that protects the people's interest.

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[inthatoneway.livejournal.com]

It isn't doublethink, it's no think. The GOP, or at least the rabid right, are desperate to paint Obama as a socialist menace. Anything that has the least whiff of socialism or communism or anything of that nature will be pounced upon and held up as proof positive that Obama is a marxist menace that any right thinking American will fear and revile. Facts, truth, reality? Utterly irrelevant, it's all about perception.