Barb’s Blog

The United States of America, as I see it, is becoming the United States of Obama.

Liberals control Congress and the White House. They’ve taken over health care. They’ve nationalized large blocks of the auto industry, the insurance industry, the banking industry. Once they finish with the oil and gas industry, what’s left?

That’s an important question to ask yourself, as you look at these industries and think to yourself, yes, they’re hit, but not me. It won’t happen to me. Think again. This is Obama we’re talking about and the NEW nation he is forming.

Another important question to ask, is HOW did they GET control?

Well an interesting bit of old news was sent to me today regarding the AUTO Industry, and it proves true, and I will add more to it from my research.

This is what was sent to me:

Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to which dealerships of the Chrysler Corporation were to be closed?
Roll the clock back to the weeks just before Chrysler declared bankruptcy. Chrysler, like GM, was in dire financial straits and federal government “graciously” offered to “buy the company” and keep them out of bankruptcy and “save jobs.”   Chrysler was, in the words of Obama and his administration, “Too big to fail,” same story with GM.

The feds organized their “Automotive Task Force” to fix Chrysler and GM. Obama, in an act that is 100% unconstitutional, appointed a guy named Steve Rattner to be the White House’s official Car Czar – literally, that’s what his title is.  Rattner is the liaison among Obama, Chrysler, and GM.
Initially, the national media reported that Chrysler ‘had made this list of dealerships.’  Not true!  The Washington Examiner, Newsmax, Fox New and a host of other news agencies discovered that the list of dealerships was put together by the “Automotive Task Force” headed by no one other than Mr. Steve Rattner.
Now the plot thickens.  Remember earlier we said that there was neither rhyme nor reason why certain dealerships were closed?
Actually there’s a very interesting pattern as to who was closed down.  Again, on May 27, 2009 , The Washington Examiner and Newsmax exposed the connection.   Amazingly, of the 789 dealerships closed by the federal government, 788 had donated money, exclusively to Republican political causes, while contributing nothing to Democratic political causes.  The only “Democratic” dealership on the list was found to have donated $7,700 to Hillary’s campaign, and a bit over $2,000 to John Edwards.  This same dealership, reportedly, also gave $200.00 to Obama’s campaign.

Does that seem a little odd to you?

Steve Rattner is the guy who put the list together.  Well, he happens to be married to a Maureen White.
Maureen happens to be the former national finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee.  As such, she has access to campaign donation records from everyone in the nation-Republican or Democrat.  But of course, this is just a wacky “coincidence,” we’re certain.

Then comes another really wacky “coincidence.”  On that list of dealerships being closed down, a weird thing happened in Arkansas , North Louisiana and Southern Missouri.  It seems that Bill Clinton’s former White House Chief of Staff, Mack McClarty, owns a chain of dealerships in that region, partnered with a fellow by the name of Robert Johnson.  Johnson happens to be founder of Black Entertainment Television and was a huge Obama supporter and financier.
These guys own a half dozen Chrysler stores under the company title of RLJ-McClarty-Landers. Interestingly, none of their dealerships were ordered closed – not one!

While all of their competing Chrysler/Dodge and Jeep dealership were!  Eight dealerships located near the dealerships owned by McClarty and Johnson were ordered shut down.

Thus by pure luck, these two major Obama supporters now have virtual monopoly on Chrysler sales in their zone.  Isn’t that amazing?
Go look in The Washington Examiner, the story’s there, and it’s in a dozen or so other web-based news organizations; this isn’t being made up.
Now if you thought Chrysler was owned by Fiat, you are mistaken. Under the federal court ruling, 65% of Chrysler is now owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers union!  Fiat owns 20%.  The other 15% is still privately owned and presumably will be traded on the stock market.  Obama smiles and says he doesn’t want to run the auto industry.

As a side note, Mr Rattner is no longer the ‘Car Czar’.

An amazing thing happened as this story was going to press. Obama’s Car Czar, Steve Rattner, resigned on July 13 and was promptly replaced by former steel workers union boss Ron Bloom.
According to CBS News, Rattner left “to return to private life and spend time with his family.”
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said, “I hope that he takes another opportunity to bring his unique skills to government service in the future.”
By the way, Rattner is under investigation for a multi-million dollar pay-to-play investment bank scandal in New York ….
Uh-oh!
But, we’re certain that had nothing to do with his resignation.  And, according to several news sources out there, there are rumors he’s being
investigated for what could be pay-to-play scandal involving the closing of Chrysler and GM dealerships.  Really?  Again, that couldn’t have anything to with his resignation — that’s ridiculous!  Like CBS said, this guy just wants to “spend more quality time with his family.”
Obama has 32 personally appointed “czars” who answer to no one but him, all of whom are acting without any Constitutional authority.
But hey, we’re sure they all have “unique skills,”……as Tim Geithner likes to say!

More reading on this subject:

Obama’s Auto Policy: All in the Democrat Family

Texas Rep. Accuses Dems of Closing GOP-Donating Chrysler Dealerships

But were Republicans the only target? Another article suggests that Federal government made decisions about closing auto dealerships based on race and gender.

Closing down scads of auto dealerships as part of the GM/Chrysler bailout was always controversial, but after this revelation in the IG report, I imagine things are about to get even more heated:

GM officials attributed these inconsistencies primarily to a desire to maintain coverage in certain rural areas where they have a competitive advantage over import auto companies that are not typically located in rural areas, although ultimately close to half of all of the GM dealerships identified for termination were in rural areas. Other dealerships were retained because they were recently appointed, were key wholesale parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned dealerships.