The Tea Baggers are getting nervous

By GottaLaff

Hey chums! Want to join me in some fun? Check out how jittery the Tea Tantrumers are getting.

Via an e-mail, with the subject line: Urgent! Bailout Bob is at it again.

A message to all members of Tea Party Nation

Bailout Bob Corker, (RINO-TN) is at it again

The liberals have three major agendas they want passed this year. The first was health care, the second is financial overhaul and the third is cap and tax.

While the liberals were able to take over 1/6 of the economy with healthcare, they are now trying to take over the remaining 5/6 with "financial reform" legislation.

This bill, written by Chris "Countrywide" Dodd, is a permanent bail out of the financial sector. It provides for advance funding for government take overs of banks. Although Corker denies this, it is a permanent bailout.

Until now, all 41 Republican Senators had stood firm, providing a filibuster that the liberals could not break. Now, that is changing. Corker has been signaling his willingness to work with Chris Dodd. This bill does nothing for the American people. It will only allow the government to control even more of our economy.

Corker needs to hear from all of us, regardless of whether you live in Tennessee. Call his offices as soon as you can and tell him not to compromise with Chris Dodd, and not to support this "financial reform."

Nashville 615-279-8125

Knoxville 865-637-4180

Memphis 901-683-1910

Chattanooga 423-756-2757

Tri-Cities 423-323-1252

Jackson 731-424-9655

Washington DC 202-224-3344

Send this email to your friends and encourage them to call Corker's offices. The Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil are on the move again and Bailout Bob Corker is the one vote that could stop this.

Call him today!

Senators near deal on consumer agency

By GottaLaff

I'm surprised when anything gets done these days:

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) is nearing a deal with Sen. Bob Corker (R.-Tenn.) to propose the creation of a consumer protection authority housed inside the Federal Reserve, according to three sources familiar with the negotiations.

This would be whatcha call a major breakthrough in negotiations.

Originally, Chris Dodd and Bob Corker wanted an independent agency, one that could write, as well as enforce, rules that would protect consumers.

This is the compromise:

The proposed regulator would be appointed by the president, with a dedicated source of funding and the power to write rules, but enforcement of those rules would remain the responsibility of banking regulators.

Al Franken anti-rape amendment fallout has GOP fuming

I love the way they act like all this is so "unprecedented". You freaks voted to deny a woman a right to redress and it's Franken that's being mean? I'm only excerpting part, go read the whole thing for their foot stomping hissy fits. Oh, and Senator Franken got "heated" in a discussion? What a bunch of weepy hothouse flowers, clutching pearls and all.

Republican senators feel burned by Al Franken — and not by his old jokes.

The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them.

“Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape —and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don’t think it’s a very constructive thing,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in an interview.


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In a chamber where relationship-building is seen as critical, some GOP senators question whether Franken’s handling of the amendment could damage his ability to work across the aisle. Soon after Tennessee GOP Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander co-wrote an op-ed in a local newspaper defending their votes against the Franken measure, the Minnesota Democrat confronted each senator separately to dispute their column — and grew particularly angry in a tense exchange with Corker.

People familiar with the Corker exchange say it was heated and ended abruptly — a sharp departure from the norm on the usually clubby Senate floor.

At issue is an amendment to the Pentagon spending bill that would bar “future and existing” federal contracts to defense contractors and subcontractors “at any tier” who mandate employees go through a company’s arbitration process for workplace discrimination claims — including claims of sexual assault. The measure passed 68-30, with 10 Republicans voting yes and 30 voting no.

VIDEO: Corker calls UAW'S Valentines protesting his vote against the auto bailout "tacky" and "classless"

By GottaLaff



Talk about tacky and classless:

Last year, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) was one of the staunchest opponents of the federal auto bailout, blaming the defeat of bailout legislation on the United Auto Workers (UAW). Last week, thousands of UAW members delivered valentines to Corker, protesting his anti-UAW positions.

Senator Bob Corker Takes Over For Santa

From my friends at Blogging for Michigan-

From the Desk of Santa

An important letter from Santa Claus to all children:

In preparing your letter to Santa, you must submit a 100-page turnaround plan documenting how you expect to be good.

If approved by the Grinch from Tennessee, you will receive half your presents at Christmas and the batteries to run them in March.

Note that all end-of-year allowances must be forfeited, and current parents must be dumped, even though previous parents may be responsible for your bad behavior.

An appointed czar, who once read a blog on child-rearing, will make your life decisions for you.

Bicycles are not allowed; more expensive hybrid tricycles will be substituted, whether you fit one, or not.

If you do not comply with your plan to be good, you and all the people you know will have their homes foreclosed, and you will be replaced by a child from Asia, who gets to keep your toys and send your allowance back to his or her home country.

Kids from Wall Street are exempt from all of the above.

Merry Christmas,
~Santa

Face The Nation- Auto Industry Bailout Battle

Bob Schieffer spoke to Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Sherrod Brown and Sen. Bob Corker about whether or not the White House should take action to bailout the American Auto Industry.

I'm with Oliver, Corker makes me crazy in many way.

The auto industry affects all 50 states: Interactive map

By GottaLaff

Click here to see the spiffy interactive map.

• Map below breaks down each state's contribution by jobs, parts and sales
  
• The states are ranked by total number of jobs per state

Click on each state. I live in California, and found out that:

• We have the second largest number of auto-related jobs in the country: 189,749.
• Auto assembly jobs: 7,430
• Auto parts jobs: 42,741
• Auto sales jobs: 139,578
• Average wages: $17,590

Those pesky unions. They've destroyed an entire industry.

Oh wait. I'm confusing them with the Republican party.

Republicans stiff Big 3, despite donations

By GottaLaff

Republicans have a habit of accepting big, fat donations and then screwing the donors. Why, here's an example now!

Since 1990, the auto industry has cut $100 million in checks to the GOP, compared with $34 million to Democrats. But the Big Three is snubbed on bailout.

By standing in the way of an auto industry bailout, GOP senators appear to have bitten the hand that fed them.

Over the last decade, General Motors has given $1.50 to Republican candidates for every $1 it has given to Democrats. That same pattern has been followed by Chrysler and Ford, which year after year have favored the right side of the aisle, sometimes by more than a 3-to-1 ratio in dollar terms.

Since 1990, the auto industry as a whole – including suppliers, dealers and manufacturers – has cut $100 million in checks to Republicans, compared with just $34 million to Democrats.

On Thursday night, the carmakers discovered just how little loyalty that investment strategy had bought them.

More here.

The joke was on the Big 3, and it was a real Corker.