Corker says GM-Spring Hill is Competitive

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Sen. Corker's enthusiastic jaunt through GM's Saturn plant in 2007

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., emerged as a harsh critic of General Motors and the UAW during Congressional debate over an industry bailout last year. "GM is spiraling downward," said the freshman senator in November.

But Corker was once an enthusiastic proponent of GM -- or sure sounded like it. A video circulating on YouTube shows just how enthusiastic he was.

Corker visited GM's engine plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., on April 27, 2007. Afterward, Corker said he saw "a tremendous amount of excitement here about the investments in the future, about being part of helping make our country energy secure."

During the bailout debate, Corker tried to fashion a compromise that would have approved initial loans for the Detroit 3 through the Senate on the night of Dec. 11. That proposal called for the UAW, at some point in 2009, to accept wages and benefits competitive with the transplants. UAW President Ron Gettelfinger would not agree to let the concessions take effect in 2009.

Fair or not, Corker became a symbol of Southern Republicans who seemed to want to punish Detroit and unionized workers. But that's not how he sounded in Spring Hill in 2007. Speaking on the plant floor at Saturn, he said: "It is great to be in a company that is really focused on making efficient products that are going to help us move us away from such dependence on petroleum. I'm here to learn about GM."

Corker added: "Today has been most uplifting to me and it really will affect me as to how I approach some of the issues into the future -- knowing that this company is investing what it is, not only in plant but also in employees, to make sure it leads the way into the future."

He said being in Spring Hill "makes you want to … make sure that you work on putting in place policies that cause companies like this to thrive."

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This guy is SCUM. I hope is gets relegated to the bathroom clean up committee co-chair along with Senator Shelby.

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