Here the Senate Republicans are, standing over the embers of their failed project that began in 1995, and they don’t even seem phased. Unions are their bull’s eye, and if a large chunk of the US manufacturing sector goes under to get at them—well who cares? You at least have to give them [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Out of the Revolution…
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Destroying the UAW, part 3
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unsurprisingly, the Republicans have concocted a bill that would “salvage” the bailout by hammering at the UAW.
Update: and finally the UAW shows backbone!
Detroit update
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Levin says he’s unsure whether they’ll get to 60, the new bill will feature an oversight board to ensure “drastic restructuring.” In short, it seems that getting to 60 will require the blood of the UAW.
Krugman thinks the auto industry in the Detroit environs will likely disappear (see his NYTimes blog, he doesn’t really elaborate [...]
Detroit part 2, reply to Ocho Cinco
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last question in your post Josh asks, why are Dem’s pushing for layoffs in the middle of a recession? My answer: it isn’t just any jobs that will be cut, it’s the jobs worked by members of the UAW, the most powerful union body in the country today. The death or wounding of the [...]
Obama, Detroit, and Pink Slips
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The pundit gears are churning and even amidst all the chicanery—like private “advisors” sucking away big portions of the federal bailout money—the main question is what kind of administration Obama will run. As I see it there are two big schools of thought. Some, like Alexander Cockburn, expect Clintonesque right-of-center compromises. Others [...]
Adorno and tact
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Theodor Adorno, tact emerges as the bourgeoise individual frees himself of moral absolutism (the doctrine of whole rights and whole wrongs). I assume the freedom from absolutism, for Adorno, represents the historical entrance of the liberal, egotistical individual and the making of society for him. This individual knows no whole rights and wrongs, for [...]
