in michigan, the next big race where mitt romney grew up, where his dad was governor and where he really, really needs a win, rick santorum in the new poll out today by the detroit news, rick santorum is beating mr. romney in michigan. part of the problem in michigan is that mr. romney undermine his greatest asset in the state with his dad having been both a governor and car company auto executive there and undermine that asset with a famous op-ed that let detroit go bankrupt that if gm, ford and chrysler get bailout from the federal government you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. mr. romney wrote the auto industry s demise would be guaranteed by bailout. now in another op-ed, this one in the detroit news mr. romney is trying to sort of defend and sort of walk back the whole let detroit go bankrupt thing. he s now saying that he still thinks it would have been right to let the auto industry in america go bankrupt. he also says that mr. obama saving the industry i
whitney houston on a dangerous path days before her death. she drank heavily in the days before her death. she started drinking 10:00 in the morning poolside. also, have we got a deal for you. and i mean it. a payroll tax cut deal is now actually in place. the lawmakers using a word they haven t used in a while, the big c word, compromise. iran showing off a new level of nuclear know-how and playing the oil card, as well. what does iran want and what is it capable of? we re speaking to an expert who has been inside iran. if you are about to or in the middle of packing your children s school lunch, you will love this one. does the government know better than you what to put in that lunch box? aapparently in one town they seem to think they do. is it going too far? find out what was in the lunch box and what the mom got in trouble for. what they replaced it with is what shocks me. singer whitney houston was drinking heavily at her hotel just days before she was found
their chief executives ask for. yesterday, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. this will be a campaign issue. it will be a campaign issue. especially in the industrial midwest. let s talk about the one company that didn t get a bailout, ford. ford. the remarkable story of ford. is that, is that great american success story still holding up? that great american ford is a terrifically managed company. isn t that amazing, ford has hired, they ve allowed one member of the ford family after the ford member of the ford family to take what henry ford started and just saw it go downhill. but boy the latest generation. bill ford had the good sense to say i can t run this company full time get me allen mulally, who knew nothing about cars, he came from boeing and he went in there and fixed that company. and that was going to be the punchline that bill ford did what his predecessors did not do and he should be a hero to people at ford. he is a hero.
november 2008 in new york times an op-ed titled let detroit go bankrupt. if they get their bailouts that the chief executives asked for today, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. well, let s look at it. chrysler is still there with a 26% increase. ford 17% fleck. general motors 14% increase. it looks like willard was a little off the mark, patrick. i would say he s way off the mark. let s look at the facts here. as a consequence of the courageous position that the president took in the face of ferocious opposition from republicans like mitt romney and all the tea party republicans on
times an op-ed titled let detroit go bankrupt. if they get their bailouts that the chief executives asked for today, you can kiss the american automotive industry good-bye. well, let s look at it. chrysler is still there with a 26% increase. ford 17% fleck. general motors 14% increase. it looks like willard was a little off the mark, patrick. i would say he s way off the mark. let s look at the facts here. as a consequence of the courageous position that the president took in the face of ferocious opposition from republicans like mitt romney and all the tea party republicans on capitol hill, we preserved 1.4