Didn't have a lot of time to listen the Fat One this week but what I did catch, I noticed a theme he was fixated on. The theme was the automotive industry and Rush's assertion that President Obama actually enjoys to punish executives and rich people. Limboner believes that the recent firing on Rick Wagoner as CEO of GM was because Obama wants a sacrificial lamb and he relishes in the misery of any high ranking executive having to leave their post in shame. Rush tried to make Wagoner out to be an innocent victim who was bullied by the new socialist leader of the Peoples Republic of America. Wagoner was relieved of his duties with a huge severance package because he ran GM into the ground.
Since he was promoted to CEO from CFO in 2000, GM lost $85 billion, their stock price fell from $60 per share to $1.27 (not quite available on the McDonald's value menu) and their market share dropped by 10% AND GM was given a ton of bailout money. Wagoner was simply a representation of all the American automobile car maker's in that they were so completely out of touch with what the market was in need of and was getting crushed by foreign companies. It absolutely blows me away that American automobile companies could make cars that Americans wanted to purchase. The only thing they did right was with SUV's and trucks but they knew that bubble would eventually burst. And when it did they had nothing to fall back on. It reminds me of the old Churchill quote," American's will eventually do the right thing when they are out of all other options."
Earlier in the week the High Waister said the problem with the automobile makers was they had too many finance guys and not car guys running the company. Well, Limboner Wagoner who he so vehemently defended this week was a finance guy, CFO before CEO. And Rush who has been banging the drum against business schools because in his parallel universe in his pain killing induced gray matter between his hearing impaired ears forgets to note that his butt boy of the week Wagoner was a Harvard MBA. This is consistent with another one of C-Cup's themes, his attacks on public sector bureaucrats while endlessly defending the high stakes game of grab-ass with private sector old boys, secret handshake bureaucracy. It would be a valid point of view for Rush but the private sector failed us all but he'll never own up to it.
Rush rambled on later in the week about the death of the Hummer. At first I thought he was referring to a dry spell in the romance department he was going through but he was actually referring to that truck-car-SUV thing. Rush said it was symbolic of America and is now dying because the liberals are to blame. Much like the liberals killing a car they are killing America. Hey, douche-tard, GM announced almost a year ago they were killing the Hummer brand and for all we know President McCain could have been the murderer for the Hummer.
All the car and Hummer talk gets me thinking about the right's obsession with oil and petroleum products. From plastic which is used for credit cards that get millions indebted to banks, to petroleum jelly which to no avail to Tom Delay he slicks himself up to slide out of trouble but it looks like he greased up to slide back into the limelight as a new talking head on television or the petroleum jelly used by Larry Craig in restroom's across the country, oil and petrol is the equal opportunity crush of many men, women and children of all colors, shapes, sizes and ethnicities to the right. I'm convinced that if a can of barrel of oil actually ran for president it could probably get 10% of the vote. It's cool harm the environment but lube it up baby!
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