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Auto demagoguery by both Romney and Obama
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns are playing fast and loose with auto industry facts as they play hardball for votes in Ohio and Michigan before the Nov. 6 election. But Michigan’s partisan media is only reporting Mitt Romney’s distortions.
Obama's auto bailout whopper
The Boca Bout was about foreign policy, but a subplot was of particular interest to Michigan’s economy: President Obama’s whopper on the auto bailout. For the first time, the two candidates went head-to-head on the Government Motors details – and Obama got it wrong. Badly wrong. Damn-the-facts-I’m-clinging-to-my-talking-points wrong. For the record, Mitt Romney has always … Continue Reading →
Payne: How Obama bullied Big Auto
“The Campaign,” an attack on the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling overturning restrictions on free speech, masquerades as a summer comedy starring Will Farrell. The film furthers the simplistic media-Hollywood Left stereotype that corporations buy politicians. That’s fiction. For a dose of reality, a new House Oversight Committee report on the Obama Administration’s 54.5 MPG-by-2025 average vehicle fuel economy … Continue Reading →