SENATE EFFORT TO CRUSH WELFARE "CA$H FOR CLUNKER$" FAILS

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Reuters and the Drudge Report are reporting that Senator Judd Gregg's valiant attempt to strip out of the pending $106 billion war funding bill a $1,000,000,000.00 version of the bailout-welfare boondoggle known as "Cash for Clunkers" has failed 60-36.

"Truth With Speedzzter" will publish the list of the SIXTY welfare-pimp senators who voted against the interests of the automotive hobbies and grassroots motorsports as soon as this information is verified.

Initial, unverified information suggests that this was mostly a party-line vote with a few RINO defectors. If so, the Democratic party has clearly gone on record in opposition to free markets, automobile collecting, vintage vehicle preservation, grassroots motorsports, and the thousands of small businesses who serve these avocations.

UPDATE 1:

The $1,000,000,000.00 version of Rep. Betty Sutton's (D-OH) CARS Act (a/k/a the ANTI-VINTAGE V8s ACT) was snuck into a House Senate Conference version of the massive House Report 111-151 - MAKING SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2009, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Here's the text of the conference report:

TITLE XIII--CONSUMER ASSISTANCE TO RECYCLE AND SAVE ACT
The conference agreement includes a new title providing $1 billion for vouchers of $3,500 or $4,500 to be applied toward the purchase or lease of a new fuel efficient automobile or truck from July 1-November 1, 2009. To qualify for a voucher under this authority the vehicle turned in must be scrapped, and the purchased vehicle must achieve greater fuel efficiency than the vehicle to be turned in.

The enemies of free markets, grassroots motorsports, and the automotive hobbies who to let the Conference Report to go forward on a Motion to Waive All Applicable Points of Order Under Rule 44 on Conference Report on H.R. 2346, and stop Senator Gregg's attempt to remove the CARS ACT are:

YEAs ---60

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO) {RINO ALERT!]
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cochran (R-MS) [RINO ALERT!]
Collins (R-ME) [RINO ALERT!]
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH) [RINO ALERT!]
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI) [RINO ALERT!]
Wyden (D-OR)

These SIXTY infamous Senators are welfare-bailout pimps of the highest order. They are enemies and vandals of our automotive heritage. They are in favor of spending A BILLION DOLLARS that we do not have to give a bailout to Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan and others, through welfare voucher for greedy and selfish owners of collectible and donor V8s from the 1980s and 1990s.

This is a sad day for vintage automobility in America.

And this little $1,000,000,000.00 vehicle scrappage program will be just the initial salvo in a lengthy war against vintage vehicles.