I wonder if the good senator would tell us how much Japanese car companies who make cars in his state gave to his campaign?

Or how much his state gave in tax incentives to attract the foreign car companies. Can we call those subsidies?

Why does Senator big Dick Shelby hate the troops so?

The Republican party has become the party of the South. I wonder what the next national party is going to look like.

So that's the respect Detroit gets for supporting NASCAR all these years?

Pull the team sponsorships! Bristol Raceway will close within the month. Then what will 100,000 Tennesseans do on a Friday night?

I don't have a specific answer for Danp, let's just say very large amounts. We sold ourselves as the cheapest whore on the block and the Germans, Japanese and Koreans came calling.

The upside is we now have several decent Korean resturants in Montgomery!

More please. That will be a very effective slogan nationally. I am sure that creative things can be done with those state tax inducements.

Popular anti-union sentiment in the South is real, and based on a certain amount of self-interest as well sectional jealousy. Workers in the South tend to oppose the extension of unions to the South because they realize that the South needs lower labor costs to attract industry.

But cutting down on union wages in the North does not benefit Southern workers - it reduces the preference of new industry for the South as well as overall wage levels. Here is where jealousy comes in - as well as direct industry contributions to politicians.

Now that I think about it, screw the NASCAR Republicans. NASCAR Chairman Brian France proudly declared NASCAR to be "George Bush Country" in 2004 and 9 out of 10 NASCAR drivers endorsed Bush. Speedways are a big waste of oil and fuel and 90 percent of the fans probably vote Republican anyway, so minimal political damage for the Democrats.

Let's invent a new America's Challenge: a $10,000,000 grand prize for the first racing team to go nonstop from LA to New York on one tank of gas! Any musclehead can go 175 mph and crash into walls. But going 2,500 miles on 20 gallons of gas -- no, methanol -- that would be a real feat of engineering. And it would usher in the new green car era, creating good-paying American jobs.

Republicans would hate it!

Good to see some pushback against these cracker assholes. More, please.

For a list of tax breaks, worker training, land offerings and other sweeteners thrown in by South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee to lure foreign auto makers, check out the December 16, 2008 article by Mike Lillis at www.washingtonindependent.com/22236/cars

Interesting to note:

Brian France, the chairman of NASCAR, also owns a marketing company called "Brandsense." Brandsense's three biggest clients are Tony Stewart, Goodyear Tire and . . . Britney Spears!

There's a winning combination -- NASCAR, which proudly proclaims itself as "George Bush Country" and Britney Spears. Brian France sure can pick 'em.

Is it just a coincidence that Britney Spears' career went into a steep decline right around the same time as Bush's? How far -- and fast -- the mighty have fallen.

"...Workers in the South tend to oppose the extension of unions...because they realize that the South needs lower labor costs to attract industry." skeptonomist @ 10:03 AM.
Wouldn't another reason be that unions tend to be non-discriminatory about race and have a history of supporting the Civil Rights movement? That, and the fact that all union members are communists, of course. (Well, if the South can rise again, why can't the USSR? Gotta be ready, dontchaknow!)

Treason, pure and simple.

And, Nascar cars do burn ethanol or methanol, not gasoline.