Update: LA Times - E-mail circulated Wednesday among Senate Republicans reads: "Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot against organized labor, instead of taking their first blow from it."
Nice piece in Salon about southern senators.
"The fiercest opposition to the loan proposal -- and nearly a third of the 35 votes against ending debate on the deal -- came from Southern Republicans, and the ringleaders of the opposition all come from states with a major foreign auto presence. Not coincidentally, nearly all of those states -- except Kentucky -- are also ‘right-to-work’ states, which means no union contracts for most of the employees at the foreign plants. The Detroit bailout fell victim to a nasty confluence of home-state economic interests and anti-union sentiment among Republicans."
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