Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Saved by the Auto Recovery Act

* The auto recovery act proposed by President Obama and successful in restarting the American auto industry, was celebrated in Toledo yesterday.  The Toledo Blade reports that the owner of American Manufacturing Inc., Chuck Gotberg, owes his company's recovery to the auto recovery act.

Toledo Blade:

 ....Before the sudden collapse of the market for automobiles in 2008 and 2009, the steel-fabricating company at 2375 Dorr St. had 125 people manufacturing industrial steel containers for automotive-parts suppliers. After nearly shutting its doors in 2009, American Manufacturing is now back with more than 100 workers and looking for additional welders.

On Monday, Mr. Gotberg hosted an event with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) and officials of the U.S. Small Business Administration to give credit to the 2009 American Recovery Act, also called the stimulus package. They also praised the 2009 $80 billion bailout of General Motors and Chrysler with the turnaround in American Manufacturing Inc. — and American manufacturing in general.

"The automotive bailout was the key to my recovery," said Mr. Gotberg, a Northville, Mich., resident. "If General Motors and Chrysler would have failed I'm convinced the supply base in total would have failed, because once it's dead, it's dead. You can't just say that some other company's going to take the place of General Motors. They can't."


Thank you, Sen. Sherrod Brown!!!!  After all the hard work has been done, now Josh Mandel said he has his own plan for the American auto industry.  He is a little late.

>>>>  The new Washington Post-ABC News Poll has been released and here is further proof that women respect President Obama:

26. Regardless of who you support, which candidate do you trust to do a better job [ITEM] – (Obama) or (Romney)?
4/8/12 
                                       Obama   Romney 
 
k. Dealing with social issues such as
   abortion and gay marriage             46       38 

l. Addressing women’s issues             53       34 


The Republicans don't get it.  Even Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't even respect the views of the Republican Senators that are women to ask or know how they feel about the Republican attacks on contraception. 

From a Kentucky radio interview, we have this from McConnell and posted on  Think Progress:

...MCCONNELL: There is no issue. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine I think would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘we don’t see any evidence of this.’
Except that they do. Three of the four women McConnell names have already come out against the GOP’s war on women — Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

In fact, Murkowski specifically pushed back on claims like McConnell’s, saying, “If you don’t feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters.” Maybe McConnell should take her advice....


I guess Mitch McConnell just doesn't care what they think.