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Cynics have long linked senators with the major companies in the states they serve -- or simply have said Washington was in the pockets of big corporations.Vice President-Elect Joe Biden, for example, was tagged with the label D-MBNA, after the credit card company, for his support for a recent bill making it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy. Delaware is home to MBNA and other major credit card issuers. But never in recent memory have news organizations labeled senators as being representatives of those companies outright.Until today.... Yahoo News today listed two United States senators as proxies for the major auto manufacturers BMW and Toyota. The senators in question are Sen. Jim DeMint(R-SC) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).Their headline? "Toyota, BMW senators oppose auto rescue."

I'm so sure these two really are simply being 'principled conservatives,' um, yeah.

To object to a $25 billion loan to auto manufacturers, that would do a lot more to help middle America. Much more than the $350 billion already flushed down the toilet by the Treasury Department bailing out the banking industry appears to be not only extremely hypocritical (like Biden's support of CC companies b/c of campaign> contributions), and excessively partisan, but truly, sadistic. As if they savor the destruction of a blue state's main industrial manufacturing base, simply because they don't vote red. Children. Mean ones at that.

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