TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: Ballistics, Bankruptcy, and Barbs

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Newt Gingrich's "fantasy foreign policy" charge, GM's prospects of bankruptcy, and David Axelrod's prickly response to Dick Cheney's recent criticisms. All that and more in today's Sunday Show Roundup.

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[Richardgwm]

Go Newt Go! Sink that Republican party. Confirm the Republicans as the party of "NO".

[PersonalJesus348]

Is that why Pelosi said "Impeachment is off the table"?

[moneshaduh]

you will find a bloody body in your closet hanging there haunting you and will kill you and ur family and if u want to stop this just sends this to 6 videos in 30 mins

[salbella50]

Have anybody seen fat newt when bush was in office for the last eight years...I don't think so...didn't you ass hole hear President obama...this is change ...live with it...

[CaramelAnt]

Newt Gingrich was yesterday's news fifteen years ago.

[ver506]

That sounds really good in theory, and i'm sure if it could be done, i believe that Obama would do it. However, if some of these institutions fail, the financial system will indeed collapse. The financial system is not all bad, and allowing it to collapse will hurt even people who were innocent in all this.

What you're saying sounds so good in theory, but like many things in life, it's a little more complicated than that.

[WKaliberr]

I'm the master

[Sourcererdolphin]

Geithner is a wallstreet guy. He never accomplished anything and as a reward he kept getting promoted. Him and Obama condem the action of wallstreet, call it greed, but bail them out at the same time. They are accomplices. We are not all in this together. The companies that blew cash should be held accountable and go bankrupt. How can we tell our kids whats right anymore when they witness this. We need to regain freedom and liberty. Lets end the Fed and reestablish the republic!!!

[TedinLasVegas]

Your crazy, right?

GM is leading the innovative curve on electric and fuel-cell cars and somehow they're still running on 1950's tech?

You're either crazy or ignorant.

I have a Dodge Neon, been driving it for 5 1/2 years now, and would rather have that than a Civic or Corolla. Its been extremely reliable and the few time I did have a problem, it was a cheap and easy problem - NOT like a Civic, which NEVER has a cheap or easy problem.

[TedinLasVegas]

Why is it that the average labor cost to build a GM car is about $4,500 per car but only $1,750 per car for Toyota? LABOR UNIONS and their defined benefit retirement plans.

GM is still giving paycheck to retirees - just like Ford and Chrysler. Toyota, on the other hand, is modern and innovative enough to have a defined contribution retirement plan rather than those 19th-Century defined benefit plans the UAW foisted upon GM, Ford and Chrysler.

[3star2nr]

There is a reason why they're running the same technology from the 1950s.

They have the capability to innovate. But they dont want to spend the money on R&D, and develop a good product. They rather put the money in their pockets.

Dont believe me that there is a quality difference, check out a Dodge neon or any saturn and then drive a civic or a toyota. The difference in quality is night and day.

Reviewers have been screaming this customers also. Their response is to blame the workers.

[3star2nr]

nah boss its more than the unioin, GM outsources alot of jobs to Mexico, where they arent affected by unions. Whats hurting them IS THE LEADERSHIP.

Look at the qualifications necessary to become an engineer at toyota compared to the qualifications needed to become an engineer at GM. In Japan they hire kids fresh out of college. Here you need 10-20 years experience to even be considered. How are you going to be innovative, if your hiring old people to work for u?