Over at Human Events, Pat Buchanan takes the GOP to task today about their treatment of the auto industry. "Is the Republican Party so fanatic in its ideology that, rather than sin against a commandment of Milton Friedman, it is willing to see America written forever out of this fantastic market, let millions of jobs vanish and write off the industrial Midwest?" Buchanan says he’s appalled at Southern politicians who helped engineer subsidies to foreign auto companies but now refuse to assist Detroit. "[W]hy this "Let-them-eat-cake!" coldness toward U.S. auto companies? General Motors employs more workers than all these foreign plants combined. And, unlike Mitsubishi, General Motors didn't bomb Pearl Harbor." Nothing like a little jingoism to rally the troops.
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