Sit him down and ask him about the $700 million a year his state gives to Honda, Toyota, Mercedes and Hyundai!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/kgb999/2008/12/what-about-the-government-bail.php

It seems the reason he's grilling the American companies so hard is because he's working for the foreign automakers. Typical.

Senator Richard C. Shelby is a proven intelligence failure. In 2001, he was co-chair of The Senate Intelligence Committee, and just less than three months before September 11, 2001, had offered this insight to the Washington Post:

Back from a six-country tour of the Persian Gulf, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) believes U.S. counterterrorism officials are winning the war against Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden.
[. . .]
...Shelby, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a recent interview that bin Laden is the one who's on edge.

"He's on the run, and I think he will continue to be on the run, because we are not going to let up," Shelby said.

"I don't think you could say he's got us hunkered down. I believe he's more hunkered down," Shelby said. "He's moved and tried to be one step ahead of our intelligence on where he might be. He knows he's hunted, and he's not exactly strolling down the streets of London or Paris or Berlin, shopping."

Vernon Loeb, "U.S. Has Bin Laden 'On the Run,' Sen. Shelby Says", Washington Post, June 26, 2001