Out-Bushing Bush

One of the hallmarks of Bush's reign was the singular focus on partisan politics above actual governing. His administration and their underlings in Congress would transparently act and vote in ways designed to above all beat the Democrats. The actual details were secondary to beating those lousy dems. Perhaps it is his lame duck status, or a rare change of heart, but Bush has been working to keep the auto companies out of bankruptcy, while the only roadblock to that has been Senate Republicans. Everybody knows and understands that the companies became fat happy bloated and lazy. Nonetheless to let them go bankrupt in the middle of a recession amid some serious instability in the financial sector and the economy as a whole seems pretty foolish. No one wants to see the money go to waste, so while it would be good to make sure there is a good plan in place unlike the last bailout, to let them fail at this time would probably be harmful. What is incredibly juvenile is the single-minded obsessing on the UAW. The UAW has already agreed to restructure their compensation structure, probably more so than any other employees excluding the $1 a year CEO's. It seems fairly transparent that the underlying motivation is to weaken a union that mainly gives money to Democrats. It seems a strange time to draw the line when the much much larger financial bailout is still in process with no effective conditions for the recipients to clean up their act, to pick this loan for a fractin of the amount to put your foot down doesn't make sense, at least for the reason given. To hold up the entire process, making lower wages for the workers the single objectionable issue it hinges upon, could maybe be called silly at best.