{"id":208,"date":"2010-02-03T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:03:45","slug":"dot-ray-lahood-were-not-finished-with-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/dot-ray-lahood-were-not-finished-with-toyota\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT Ray LaHood &#8211; &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Finished With Toyota&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lending credence to the theory that the O Admin is out to get Toyota because thier sales are doing much better then Government Motors, Ray LaHood, Mr. O&#8217;s\u00a0 Transportation Secretary actually said &#8220;We&#8217;re not finished with Toyota&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But a little further down in the WSJ piece, we find what may be the true reason the O Admin has chosen to go after Toyota right now (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. LaHood&#8217;s tough comments, and the disclosure of a possible penalty, highlight the political heat building under the Japanese car maker in Washington. <strong>In recent days the United Auto Workers union has protested in the capital over Toyota&#8217;s decision to close its one UAW-represented U.S. factory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704107204575040353375520866.html\">WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Toyota pisses off the UAW, and suddenly the feds are on their case?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lending credence to the theory that the O Admin is out to get Toyota because thier sales are doing much better then Government Motors, Ray LaHood, Mr. O&#8217;s\u00a0 Transportation Secretary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-thuggery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}