Auto Bailout = “Ass Backwards”

While Congressional Democrats and their lame duck beeyatch (a.k.a. Jorge Dubya) can’t stop reading from union-provided talking points, at least one Republican in Washington D.C. has the nerve to call the ill-conceived multi-billion dollar bailout of the U.S. automotive industry precisely what it is.

From MSNBC:

Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, who is adamantly against an auto bailout, calls the Democratic and White House proposal “ass backwards.”

He complained that it’s wrong to give the automakers $15 billion worth of short-term loans, and then expect them to come up with restructuring plans.

On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Vitter said, “Well, our reaction to that is pretty simple. It think the average American would say, ‘What? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Isn’t that, to use a common phrase, ‘Ass backwards?’ Fifteen billion dollars and then later, after that’s out the door, we’ll see a detailed restructuring plan?”

You know, we’re not sure what the founding fathers would think of somebody saying “ass backwards” on the floor of the U.S. Senate, but we’re guessing they’d look more kindly on it than they would America’s continuing nosedive into socialism.

After all, we can’t think of time in American history when foul language was more desperately needed to describe the current state of affairs in our nation’s capital.

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