Obama Opposes House Plan Requiring GM, Chrysler To Re-Open Dealerships

Sigh…

July 15 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama “strongly opposes” an effort in Congress to require General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC to restore relationships shed during bankruptcy proceedings, while stopping short of a veto threat.
The administration said today in a statement that “the decision by Chrysler and GM to rationalize their dealer networks was a critical part of their overall restructuring to achieve long-term viability in order to save jobs in the long run.”
The statement also said it would set a “dangerous precedent” to “intervene into a closed judicial bankruptcy proceeding on behalf of one particular group at this point.”

That last bit has me wiping tears of laughter out of my eyes. The Obama administration, which stepped in and nationalized both of these car manufacturers and is now essentially running them, including which of their dealerships they will and will not be shutting down, is now lecturing Congress about the inappropriateness of intervening in the bankruptcy proceedings. As if this whole three-ring circus, including the bankruptcy, hadn’t been coordinated and managed by Obama all along.
What’s shocking to me is that car dealerships are now a point of contention between the President and Congress. How did we get to a point where the government is debating which car dealerships will be open in the future and which will not?
It’s a sign of just how far down the road toward totalitarianism, and away from freedom and free markets, we’ve gone.

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  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Obama closed those dealerships so obviously he doesn’t want them reopened.

    I guess that’s because having more dealers means more cars being sold and they might have a chance to become self sufficient.

  • upnorthlurkin

    So Obey-me rewards/pays back his loyal union minions and supposedly saves their jobs….Now he’s going to decide who gets to sell the autos?! We’ll probably end up forced to buy Gubmint motors cars or they’ll withhold….what (?) good medical care?!

  • Buzz

    Veto it.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Whistler said: Obama closed those dealerships so obviously he doesn’t want them reopened.

    I guess that’s because having more dealers means more cars being sold and they might have a chance to become self sufficient.

    It was proved that some of these dealers voted for someone other than him. So I can see why he doesn’t want them open. Of course he was supposed to be above that.

  • robert108

    It’s a sign of just how far down the road toward totalitarianism, and away from freedom and free markets, we’ve gone.

    Absolutely! Obama is trying to replace our wonderful free enterprise econoic system, the most successful system in world history, with central planning, which has failed every time and everywhere it has been tried.

  • robert108

    Obama closed those dealerships so obviously he doesn’t want them reopened.

    Since Obama has demonstrated absolutely no management skills, reversing everything he has done would be a necessary first step to any sort of recovery.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Since Obama has demonstrated absolutely no management skills, reversing everything he has done would be a necessary first step to any sort of recovery.

    I think the first step will be in 2010 and in 2012.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Obama’s plan for the automakers is already being called a success. You people HATE that and would like to find a way to mess it up. That’s what the house bill would do.

    You’re simply obstacles to everything and only interested in dragging everyone down to your gutter level.

    Look in a mirror if you dare and see what you’ve become.

  • brain trust

    Success in the eyes of a socialist. Fewer dealers means fewer choices, easier to control the actions of the people. It is all about punishing those that didn’t vote for him and government having more control over our lives.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    DINO spews, Obama’s plan for the automakers is already being called a success.

    Where? Who?

    You’re simply obstacles to everything and only interested in dragging everyone down to your gutter level.

    You’re projecting again. We’re not the ones who are destroying wealth and demonizing “the rich”. We’re not the ones who talk about “fairness” and then proceed with how we’re going to hinder and hurt.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    While the leftists are completely and totally wrong as to this country’s turn of political bent, that is mistaking their bonding of their general modern sense of ennui and estrangement, their recent sense of frustration and victimization, and their reaction to the exposure to the omnipresent anti-Bush rhetoric for eight years and subsequent sleepwalk election of Obama for a turn from their usual conservative tendencies, it does not change the fact that the reaction caused the power of the state to be handed to the Democratic Party, the home of the modern political left.

    This has the effect in the short term of throwing the nation into utter political chaos as the left overreaches in their usual style and can actually do so without hidden machinations but will instead do it nakedly, exposing their selfish corruption to the people.

    In the long term, this will demonstrate to the people the left’s unabashed contempt for they the people and their corrupt nature without any obfuscation or diversion. All the diversions Obama and the Democrats are making now are relative choices of which of their unethical and scandalous actions we should be outraged at right now, but all are Obama’s.

    The linchpin will be the reporting of it and the mainstream media must be brought into the process of exposure now and the only thing that will make that happen are the following two things. First, those elements of the press which are traditionally viewed as liberal or noncommittal must be found who are right now exhibiting signs of cognitive dissonance such as the venerable AP. Fox News is already considered on the side of the conservatives. We need others like the Wall Street Journal perhaps. Dow Jones, etc.

    The conservative blogging world must do this by reporting hard facts and not op-ed taken from verifiable sources, and then bringing it to the attention of the people which news outlets ignored, spiked, or kept themselves willfully if not studiously oblivious to those stories.

    Secondly, the conservative blogging world must keep a compendium day and week and month from the start to the finish of everything this administration and its willing lackeys, cohorts, and manipulative would-be masters in congress do. EVERYTHING must be documented end to end and relentlessly put forth.

    Do this and win. Do it not and we shall suffer the denouement of such things: anarchy as the people suffer outrages under the surface until they cease to see purpose in this enterprise we call America and civilization itself. Then the real evil begins.

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