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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/247814.php

So the auto bailout is now dead, again, for the seemingly hundredth time. According to TPM:

Dems were willing to agree to Republican demands that Big 3 employees move to wage parity with Japanese automakers operating in the US. But they wouldn’t agree to reach parity by 2009, as Republicans demanded.

Has the Republican Party become so politically marginalized that they’re now willing to openly acknowledge the fact that their policies are simply spiteful for spite’s sake and antagonistic to the interests of the working-class, especially unionized labor? I mean, it was always obvious that that was their intent, but they tend to veil it behind some phony grievance rooted in ressentiment.