Jennifer Granholm Has Her Own Definition of "un-American"

And that definition might be a bit different than the one I was raised with.

The socialist leaning panderer of the great state of Michigan has decided that the best way for Senators to prove their American mettle is to vote for the automobile bailout--that is, using tax payer money so that the federal government can get directly involved in the propping up of unyielding labor unions and the operation of the domestic automobile industry. To not do so would be un-American.

The founding fathers might be puzzled by this.

"It is unacceptable for this un-American, frankly, behavior of these U.S. senators to cause this country to go from a recession into a depression," Granholm said during a radio interview Friday morning.

Creating recessions and depressions is what government does best, and our current doozie can be laid right at the doorstep of pandering socialist demagogues such as Governor Granholm--socialists that love forcing lenders into making bad loans that helped cause the credit crunch, love energy policies and environmental standards that helped crack the Big 3's business model, and love promoting pro labor legislation that helps embolden a belligerant labor force into orchestrating bad faith negotiations.

But that isn't the type of un-American behavior that Granholm is railing about.

Negotiations over an agreement to assist Michigan's Big Three stalled last night in a 52-35 vote on a procedural motion to bring up the package for a vote. Republicans largely opposed the bill after it failed to win concessions from the United Automotive Workers union on wages and benefits.

“It is such an unbelievable stab at workers across the country,” Granholm added. “You give this big bailout to these financial institutions–don’t ask a single question, they can do what they want–and then you lay the blame for the auto industry, which is a victim of this financial meltdown, on the backs of the people who are working on the line.”

Governor Granholm would be the wiser if she took a long look back at the policies and constituencies that she has supported during her disastrous foray into public service. She has been, philosophically at least, supportive of every major piece of crackpot legislation and misguided policy that has helped cause this mess.

All of her expensive law books and degrees might have taught her a thing or two about the law of the land, but they have taught her nothing about the laws of economics. It is the equivalent of shaking the tree and hoping all the apples will fall upward. Now, ankle deep in fruit, she has become hysterical.

This painful recession and the Big 3's struggles are simply the fruits of bad economic policy at its most predictably grotesque.

So, let's blame the Senators.

h/t Power Line