Pederson Charged with Driving While Democratic

The AZ Repugnant ripped on Pederson for his hooptie: Car collections reflect Jim Pederson.

Apparently, Jimmy was driving a Mercedes S class – a very nice ride indeed. Wish I had one, and if I had the cheddar, I probably would. All that fine German engineering and craftsmanship didn’t sit so well with American unions, however. So Jim allegedly switched to an American land yacht: a Lincoln Navigator.

There is a a certain disuetude in union politics, such that personal consumption choices and symbolic gestures become cheap and meaningless litmus tests. Such dross becomes an empty proxy for the real issues of zealous support of good labor laws, good trade policy, and support for the working class which actually matter to working people and unionizing efforts. As long as you drive the right car and have a union bug on your lit, you can help global corps outsource American jobs and pay no political price. Pederson should be judged on his stands on the real isses, including the future of American innovation in creating an alternative and sustainable energy economy. Instead, the largest paper in Arizona wants to play gotcha over Jim’s ride rather than deal with real labor and industrial policy issues, on which Pederson kicks Kyl’s ass.

Criticized by the SUV-haters of the Democratic base (and I must admit, I am one… though I suffer the hypocrite’s guilt of driving a full-size pickup nonetheless), Jim switched to a wiz-bang hybrid SUV Mercury Mariner. Now the world is a better place. Jim saved the American worker AND the environment. Riiight…

So what has been accomplished here? Bupkiss. Pederson’s energy plan is light-years better than anything Kyl could ever propose, and we still don’t know what Kyl drives. What the heck kind of hacks do they have working at the Repugnant that the editor didn’t send this piece-of-shit poison pen letter back to the reporter who aborted into his out box with "What does Kyl drive?" scrawled across it in blood (or oil, take your pick)?