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Analysis: Avoiding blame in auto industry crisis

Published December 5, 2008, 12:40 am, AP via Yahoo! News

Not surprisingly, neither the outgoing Bush administration, President-elect Barack Obama nor the Democratic leaders of Congress wants to be blamed for the loss of a once-proud domestic auto industry and the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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