By Leftlane Staff
Wednesday, Aug 23rd, 2006 @ 9:42 am

The Republican party and the Bush administration don’t support the America’s Big Three automakers, says Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes. “Big-name Republicans are tramping around Michigan — Karl Rove is expected at a fundraiser today in Grosse Pointe, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman is campaigning for Senate hopeful Mike Bouchard and President Bush is rumored to be planning a campaign swing next month,” writes Howes. “But meet with Detroit’s automakers? Nah, why should the president care whether U.S.-owned automakers, burdened by fierce foreign competition and cumulative decisions that threaten to swamp them, are fighting for their collective lives?” Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., told the Washington Post that “there’s a new definition of the American auto industry. Twenty-five years ago, it was the Big Three companies in Detroit. Now (it’s) any company that makes a substantial number of cars and trucks in the U.S. and has a big payroll here, pays big taxes here and buys supplies here.”

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