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[Fox News Video Updates] Rep. Thaddeus McCotter Fights For His State’s Auto Industry and Workers

By SusanUnPC on March 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM in AIG, Auto Industry, Congress (House & Senate), Fox News, President Barack Obama

This man (who rocks, really) is hitting the nation’s air waves non-stop today to fight for his state and its primary industry, essential not just for the economy and jobs but also — critically so — for our national security.

mccotter-sToday, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) is on Cavuto, Fox Business, David Shuster, Lou Dobbs, and CBS. Next, from his press release and his Detroit TV appearance:

… Mr. Wagoner has honorably resigned for the sake of his company’s working families. When will the Wall Street CEO’s receiving TARP funds summon the honor to resign? Will this White House ever bother to raise the issue? I doubt it. (Full release below.)

Here’s is Thaddeus McCotter’s pithy two-paragraph statement today:

Detroit is a last bastion of honor. Earlier this week, the President and the Treasury Secretary met with the Wall Street Chieftains who crashed our credit markets and dragged us to the precipice of a global depression. The White house pledged to work with these Wall Street CEOs who, even now, defend their bonus packages.

“Now, Mr. Wagoner has been asked to resign as a political offering despite his having led GM’s painful restructuring to date. Mr. Wagoner has honorably resigned for the sake of his company’s working families. When will the Wall Street CEO’s receiving TARP funds summon the honor to resign? Will this White House ever bother to raise the issue? I doubt it.”

Here’s Rep. McCotter rockin’ the house:

VIDEO UPDATES, from Fox Business channel’s Fox News Happy Hour and Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto:

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(This next video has good discussion of TARP history.)

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The representative is Chairman of Republican House Policy Committee and the only Republican member from Michigan on Financial Services Committee.

Last week, we featured McCotter’s AIG bail-out floor speech.

Note: We will update this post as more videos of his appearances become available. And you should visit his YouTube channel, chock full of interesting commentaries and appearances.

  • Donna Brazile

    Amen brother!

    Stop the lovefest!

    • Carol HAKA

      I’ve seen him on RedEye and he is not only brillant, but he is also hysterically funny.

      Bravo!

      CAROL HAKA :evil:

  • politicalidentitycrisis

    A brave man indeed. Maybe he should consider running for POTUS in 2012! Of course I really want Hillary, but I doubt she’ll ever be allowed. I’ll be voting for whoever steps up to actually lead so all politicians, take note. I will only hire leaders for my top job. There isn’t a lot of competition these days in that regard. I certainly hope he continues to speak out about this Usurper in Office and others join him.

    There is safety in numbers!!!

  • jbjd

    Geesh, another Republican outside of my district to whose campaign I must now contribute (because I admire his zealous advocacy for parity).

  • Peggy Sue

    Bravo, Representative McCotter! We need more like him, Republican and Democratic men and women alike, to stand up like this, to stand up not for their party or their own self-interest but for the American public.

    And if not? They need to step down. Now!

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      i agree we need patriots.not parties..

  • jangles

    I really like this guy. He is forceful, articulate, coherent and clearly has passion. I think the Republicans should really look at this guy and consider prepping him for a 2012 run. There is nothing and nobody else in their quiver that looks like someone who can appeal to main street voters. I am not in love with the automakers but I absolutely resonate with the idea that they are a better bet for helping our future than the financial deadbeat criminals from AIG and the other trash in the crevices of Wall St.

  • KmX

    Even Daniel Hannan wants Obama and Brown to fail at the G20:

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/29/g20_summit_heres_hoping_that_gordon_brown_and_barack_obama_fail

    Stop the Bail Out of Wall Street!!!!!

  • DaddysDarlin

    Yet another brave soul sticking up for the American people!!!!! Our list is getting longer and our collective voices stronger! Keep it up, we are being heard.
    What is right for the auto industry is right for the banking industry, why is Obama protecting the banks who can also file bankruptcy, that would have saved the American people trillions of dollars?
    Obama is out to destroy our country, he is not an American and certainly is not patriotic! I wish him ill will, I wish him nothing but bad for all the hate, racism, sexism, misogyny, fraud, intimidation tactics, cheating, lying scum that he is.
    I wish he were never born, but if he had to be I am glad it was in Kenya. He will never be my president, and when the shit finally hits the fan, he wont be any one’s president. His name will be forever deleted from memory.

  • Doc99

    Susan, you should bump this story to the top:
    Workers say Obama treated Autos worse than Wall Street.
    “It’s the age-old Wall Street vs. Main Street smackdown again,” said Brian Fredline, president of UAW Local 602 at a plant near Lansing. “You have all kinds of funding available to banks that are apparently too big to fail, but they’re also too big to be responsible.”

    “But when it comes to auto manufacturing and middle-class jobs and people that don’t matter on Wall Street, there are certainly different standards that we have to meet — higher standards — than the financials. That is a double standard that exists and it’s unfair,” Fredline said.

    Many workers — not generally known for their affection toward executives — even sympathized with Rick Wagoner, who was forced to step down as chief executive of General Motors Corp. He was by turns called a “sacrificial lamb,” “scapegoat” and “fall guy.”

  • Rio

    Mata Harley has a few highly informative posts up today, here’s one of her quotes:

    Apparently, the Obama administration – in it’s utter arrogance – doesn’t even feel the need to consult with Congress when seizing government control over private industry.

    What’s also disconcerting is that these back room deals took place five days before the GM/Chrysler deadlines to submit their restructuring plans. Sight unseen for their proposals, Obama and his auto czars made an executive decision to restaff GM according to their whims, and quietly set about dictating a production model agenda.

    And I repeat… without nary a whisper to Congress, or even Michigan’s senior Senator.

    Audacity, indeed.

    Also, his auto czar’s former company is on the hook for millions to none other than Chrysler’s owner. Conflict of interest?

    Much more:

    http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/03/31/americas-overhaul-takes-despotic-path-as-detroit-auto-makers-fate-determined-in-nicorette-filled-back-rooms-of-wh/