amount of population. a couple of ironies here it came yesterday from the car show. new york auto show, looking at these great cars being reduced and general motors has some terrific cars. when mitt romney i almost called him george romney. when he wrote let detroit go bankrupt, the opening paragraph if the bailout happens, the auto industry in america as we know it, we can kiss it good-bye. he talked about the companies have a deficit in technology and interior product. i didn t see it at the auto show. i see a company in general motors because thaw is thriving only because of that bailout. he was not thinking about until 2012 when he rote that. auto bailouts were unpopular, but saved a lot of jobs in michigan and ohio, two crucial swing states, and come november, that may be something that title the election there toward obama. congressman clarke, a question. earlier when we were talking
and conservatives will agree. and you cannot block our natural resources here, so, if obama was to open up anwar, and was to build the keystone pipeline, still, there is no short, quick fix. jamie: chris can i keep your response and give your response, but also toss in there for me the news this week about the chevy volt and the halt on production and the fact that gas prices have not driven, no pun intended, the battery electric car, and that people in the thousands, potential potentially, are going to lose their jobs for this temporary or perhaps permanent shutdown at a u.s. plant? listen, gm is doing something right. the profits are higher than in years and employed, increased their payroll by 200,000 in the auto industry overall since this president saved the auto industry in america, so, i think that s a minor bump in the road for gm. let me address what you said about the keystone pipeline.
directing some of these business decisions, even to the point, shannon, where the treasury department was helping general motors write their press releases and craft their public statements. this is corruption to the extreme. shannon: they say the deal with the pensions was they were trying to get out of the bankruptcy situation as quickly as possible. is it just a matter of numbers on paper and this was a quicker way to get them out of the hole? the government is now in a position of advising a private company about how they should deal with their workers. notice too i keep getting back to the union question, because the people who lost their pensions in this equation were nonunion workers. the uaw, united autoworkers unions, those workers perfectly fine. remember the entire objective of the obama administration in doing this bail out, even though they talked about keeping the manufacturing base in america, and preserving that, preserving the auto industry in america, this was about
100,000 area from what used to be 400,000 strong. there is no question the white house oversold. but i read the fact check report and the white house response. the. there is a great story to tell. the president didn t need to do some spinning. we saved this industry. it was a success. some of the facts he put on had probably too much gloss on them. it was unnecessary. this is an endemic problem. it s even when they don t need to, they exaggerate. this is interesting on a lot of levels. you can look at this in terms of the auto industry in america. o i are part of the story is if around saying is the case. if the post not generally known as a conservative leaning newspaper, why are they slamming him? and what is the disconnect?
of .385. larry said i wasn t going to be governor and president obama wasn t going to win virginia s electoral votes. it s a tough climate, brian. it s a tough climate but we feel like we have a good field operation. we ve shown in special elections when the pollsters say it s going to go bad for us, our people actually turn out. that s where we re focusing on that. how responsible is the since 2006, the economy is not as strong as the previous six years. that s when the democrats took the house and the senate. how responsible do you feel your party is? well, i really think that the turn around began with president obama s election. again, it was it was shrinking in a dramatic way. you guys know how close we were actually to a financial collapse and not only banks but the auto industry in america was about to collapse. auto industry is hiring people again for the first time in 10 years making tomorrow s cars not yesterday s cars. so we are climbing out of this. it s going to ta