UAW Commits Suicide: Bailout Dead!

The Big Feed is taking full and sole credit for this conservative victory. Well, actually, the greedy UAW workers sealed their own fate.

A $14 billion emergency bailout for U.S. automakers collapsed in the Senate Thursday night after the United Auto Workers refused to accede to Republican demands for swift wage cuts.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was "terribly disappointed" about the demise of an emerging bipartisan deal to rescue Detroit's Big Three.

He spoke shortly after Republicans left a closed-door meeting where they balked at giving the automakers federal aid unless their powerful union agreed to slash wages next year to bring them into line with those of Japanese carmakers.

Republican Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio, a strong bailout supporter, said the UAW was willing to make the cuts — but not until 2011.

It seems everyone was set to make concessions except for the UAW. At least not for 3 years. What an absolute joke. I'll see you putzes in the soupline.