{"id":887,"date":"2008-12-06T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/06\/2008-12-6-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-dumptruck-edition-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:20","slug":"2008-12-6-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-dumptruck-edition-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/2008-12-6-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-dumptruck-edition-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News! &#8211; Dumptruck Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>The political theatre provided by Rick &#8220;The Rick&#8221; Wagoner of GM, Bob &#8220;Orange Apron&#8221; Nardelli of Chrysler, and Alan &#8220;Why Am I Here?&#8221; Mullaly of Ford at this hour seems to have secured their respective companies loan guarantees from the government. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/jeep\/Jeep-Compass-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/jeep\/Jeep-Compass-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A fine Chrysler product. (sigh)\" \/><\/a><br \/>Not TARP money, because the current president doesn&#8217;t like that. The money is coming from the fund already set up to help the manufacturers build green cars that run on mermaid spit.<\/p>\n<p>Chrysler, in particular, dodged a bullet with this one. Most of the congresscritters gave Nardelli the what-for about his Cerberus overlords&#8217; unwillingness to pony up more of their money to keep the Dodge Boys afloat. They have a point, but a little loan now should keep them going long enough to file for bankruptcy in February. Hooray?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/toast.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/toast.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A fine picture of Chrysler's fortunes.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Oy!<\/p>\n<p>-bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, The political theatre provided by Rick &#8220;The Rick&#8221; Wagoner of GM, Bob &#8220;Orange Apron&#8221; Nardelli of Chrysler, and Alan &#8220;Why Am I Here?&#8221; Mullaly of Ford at this hour seems to have secured their respective companies loan guarantees from the government. Not TARP money, because the current president doesn&#8217;t like that. The money is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/2008-12-6-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-dumptruck-edition-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News! &#8211; Dumptruck Edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,12,18],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars","tag-politics","tag-punditry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}