What's Kathy Smoking?

There's plenty to take issue with in this love letter from the Detroit Free Press by Kathy Barks Hoffman to Governor Granholm masquerading as a serious article...

Granholm makes rounds as auto advocate

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has differed in the past with U.S. automakers, squabbling with the United Auto Workers union over party politics and wishing out loud that Michigan’s fortunes weren’t so tied to the ailing industry.

Exactly WHEN did she fight the UAW. I must have missed it.

...But when detractors in recent weeks portrayed the Detroit Three as manufacturing dinosaurs that didn’t deserve bridge loans to avoid bankruptcy, Granholm became an impassioned — and occasionally sharp-tongued — advocate for the industry.

“It has been extremely frustrating, and I have probably used some words I should not be using,” she said last week...

I wish she had been as passionate when Toyota was trying to decide where to locate their new plant (that ended up in another state). Oh, but she did give 40 percent tax breaks to the film industry.

...But the feisty and hard-charging governor, who ran a half-marathon in less than two hours this fall, also is easily angered by injustice, and she thinks the automakers and her state are being wrongly maligned....

Could the writer kiss her ass any more. Speaking of running, I'm just glad she can't run again for Governor.

...She accused Senate Republicans who refused to back the bridge loans of “protecting the foreign companies that are in their borders. They’re not acting as Americans.”...

Shelby and his cheerleaders in the GOP are full of shit, BUT I thought challenging some one's patriotism was wrong. BTW, does her husband still drive a Lexus?

...When former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during an exchange Sunday with Granholm on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that U.S. automakers had a cost disadvantage compared with foreign automakers, an impassioned Granholm skewered his comments as inaccurate and pointed a finger at him as she argued over legacy costs...

I disagree with Romney's position, BUT he mopped the floor with her on Sunday.

...Granholm usually is relatively cool in public. The former assistant federal prosecutor and state attorney general often draws on her legal training to phrase her comments carefully, but she can be a fiery speaker....

I remember a particularly "fiery" speech where she promised that we'd be "blow us away" in five years? Nuff said.