TW: Democrats and Republicans are falling over themselves to feed the new pigs at the trough...
"Even as lawmakers in both parties unleashed a barrage of questions about the wisdom of a government rescue for the American International Group, support seemed to be growing quickly on Capitol Hill for $25 billion in loan guarantees to assist the ailing auto industry.
Both presidential candidates, Senator John McCain of Arizona and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, have voiced support for the loan guarantees — an unsurprising stance given the critical importance of the main auto-producing states, Michigan and Ohio, to the electoral map this fall."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/09/the_interventions_get_ugly.cfm
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