Interesting segment on Larry King Live with Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford last night that I thought would get more attention today:

KING: What about the UAW in all of this? FORD: Well, the UAW obviously has been our partner through all of this. Have they made mistakes and have we made mistakes? Of course. The UAW has come a long way. I think their leader, Ron Gettelfinger, is an excellent leader and he really understands our business. In this last contract, he gave up a lot. He’s also indicated they’re willing to come to the table to do more. And so for anybody to blame the UAW as the sole reason for this is frankly wrong. One other thing is, when I look at the people who work in our plants, I don’t think of them as UAW. I think of them as Ford employees, Ford employees who take tremendous pride in building quality and safety into our products. If you ask someone in our plant, where do they work, they say I work at Ford. To me, everybody who works in our plant is part of our extended family.

So the stated position of Ford, the one company that may survive this with or without a bailout, is that the UAW has made concessions and is not the problem. I’d like to hear Bob Corker’s thoughts on that.

On second thought, no, I really wouldn’t.

Also, this Pat Buchanan quote scores an eleven on a scale of awesome: