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Posts Tagged ‘auto industry’

INTRIGUES

Car Lady Is In Town For Car Talks, But What About Supreme Court???

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

FOREIGNERJennifer Granholm, a woman who will never be elected president of the United States because she is a Snow Mexican, may have to settle for the Supreme Court instead. Rumors have been FLYING about her getting appointed to the bench, and today they fly ever more vigorously because OMG she’s in town. Coincidentally, was she involved in all this hullabaloo about fuel emissions and efficiency standards perhaps because she is the governor of Michigan, the state where all the cars (used to) come from? Nope, the whole “cleaner, gentler auto industry” announcement is clearly a FEINT to get Granholm into a secret back room with Obama where they can talk about Constitutional philosophy. MORE »


CARTOON VIOLENCE

A Children’s Treasury Of Stupid Cartoons About the Auto Industry

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Cartoon Violence!By the Comics Curmudgeon
If you asked the average American in olden times (1960) what glories would await them, auto-wise, in the Mysterious Future Year of 2009, they would be all like “flying cars” and “nuclear-powered cars” and “cars operated by intelligent ro-bots.” They certainly would not say “cars made in Japan, because American automakers have entered creative, moral, and actual bankruptcy (in that order).” MORE »


PROGNOSTICATION

Obama Assures Anxious Public There Will Still Be Cars In Future

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Also jetpacksHmm, so this auto bailout problem, is it a good thing or a bad thing? Good, because the government should continue to withhold money from GM and Chrysler until they get their acts together. Bad, because GM and Chrysler cannot get their acts together without money, plus the demise of the manufacturing sector etc. President Obama assures us, however, that no matter what happens “we will not let our auto industry simply vanish.” This is liberal socialist code for “we will raise taxes on the wealthy and give everyone a free Geo Metro.” [Washington Post]


DRAMATIC EVENTS

Liveblogging George Bush Rescuing The Auto Industry!

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Sparklefingers!The shameful publicity whore Barack Obama will be holding his FIFTH press conference of the WEEK today, while the ever modest George W. Bush holds his first in months. (Ha ha we kid, he tore himself away from his Wii to mutter some not-very-encouraging things about our teetering American economy, once, in early November. The stock market tanked.) So let’s see what our bold and fearless leader has to say about resurrecting an industry singlehandedly brought down by the famously corrupt United Auto Workers, who keep promoting this Socialist idea that people should receive “money” in exchange for their “labor.” MORE »


NEW MONEY BONFIRE PROPOSALS

Auto Industry Bailout Is Annoying On All Levels

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

A thing that sucks about our nation’s current financial unpleasantness is that Congress wants to find solutions to it and Congress happens to suck. Other people who suck in this situation include Hank Paulson and “President” George Bush Jr. Barack Obama, too, for throwing himself into this situation that can only end in a sucky outcome. And lest we forget, the American auto industry — known by its appropriately sucky metonym, “Detroit” — sucks. So. Do we give car companies money for sucking or do we let a ton of workers in depressed areas lose their jobs and family health care plans? Oh, the wacky situations America finds itself in after ignoring massive problems for decades. MORE »


ECONOMY

The New Economy

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

This morning, Ford announced the end of 30,000 jobs. This week, the guy in charge of that decision is grinning at you from newstands nationwide: he’s Time’s cover model. The headline? “CAN THIS MAN SAVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY?” MORE »