Pardon the clumsy format, (I have never learned the complexities of providing links to articles) but after reading an article on the front page of The Detroit Free Press this morning, I couldn’t help but share it with you.  This comes from Todd Spangler a writer for the Free Press on its Washington Staff.

“Washington— Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn, a leading critic of the domestic auto industry’s management during the congressional debate last year who tried to force UAW pay cuts, now is fighting like a Michigan Democrat to keep a General Motors plant open in his home state.

Over the last few weeks, Corker–in a news release, in interviews and in a column in the Tennessean newspaper–has argued that in a fair fight, the GM Spring Hill plant, which makes the popular midsize Chevrolet Traverse SUV, would be a survivor.

Industry experts though, said it is vulnerable to closure–because it’s farther from suppliers than another plant that could turn out the Traverse.

Corker’s concern, he told the Free Press this week, is that decisions on plant closings– as GM cuts deeper to meet the Obama administration’s mandate for more government help–will be based more on politics than what’s best for the company.

Of his home state plant, Corker said, ‘If the decision is made absent of politics, it has a good chance of staying open.'”    

Heaven forbid that politics would ever play a role in determining the fate of our domestic auto industry, eh Senator Corker??