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• In first big 2012 foray, Biden defends auto rescue

  his fire at Romney, the GOP front-runner. He criticized the former Massachusetts governor for saying he would have let the auto industry go bankrupt and predicting the bailout would turn the car companies into the "living dead.""The president didn't flinch,"   Read more »

• Clinton: Auto bailout most important Obama move

  -- Former President Bill Clinton says the auto industry bailout was the single most important decision by President Barack Obama -- even bigger than pushing his health care overhaul through Congress .Clinton made the remark Thursday to more than 1,000 members   Read more »

• Obama hails auto bailout, hits back at GOP critics

  makers and parts companies added more than 38,000 jobs last year, with industry employment averaging 717,000 for 2011. And automakers have announced plans to add another 13,000 jobs this year.As recently as Sunday, Romney said Obama favored the UAW in the   Read more »

• FACT CHECK: Errant claims on auto bailout, taxes

  government ushering the auto industry into and out of bankruptcy.THE FACTS: Romney did propose a bankruptcy process for the automakers before the government opted for that course. But there was a tremendous difference between the course he advocated and the   Read more »

Around the web

• Ripping Obama on Private Equity

  up. Both led to jobs lost. But the attack ad isn’t exactly fair. It glosses over some serious caveats. For one, the auto bailout saved a lot more jobs than it cost. Without the rescue package for Detroit, the entire city economy was believed to be at risk   from The Daily Beast Read more »

• GM Makes Undisclosed $600K Deal with CFO’s Wife’s Ad Agency

  the Taxpayers are still out $30+ billion on the auto bailout. Meanwhile, GM is cutting even more Crony Socialist deals . General Motors told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today that it failed to report a $600,000 deal given to an ad agency where   from Big Government Read more »

• Indiana Democrats Launch Attack Highlighting Mourdock’s Website Scrub

  longtime Senator Dick Lugar in the GOP primary, Mourdock began clearing his website of links that showed him opposing the auto bailout and supporting budget cuts that would affect entitlement programs. It also scrubbed the site of any criticisms of Lugar before   from WFPL Read more »

• GOP Rolls Out Attack Ad on Equity Failures

  on President Obama’s Bain Capital attacks by assailing his own epic “public equity” failures, such as Solyndra and the auto bailout: So far, Mitt Romney has steered clear of negative attacks when responding to the Bain Capital criticism. Instead, he’s highlighted   from Commentary Read more »

• Republicans push back with 'public equity' criticism of Obama

  strategies, jobs eliminated, billions lost." – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker The video singles out the auto bailout and loan guarantees provided to the clean energy company Solyndra, which filed for bankruptcy in August 2011 after receiving   from CNN Read more »