He was against the bridge loans for General Motors and tried to break the UAW to benefit the japanese transplant auto factories he welcomed into his state.
He was against the stimulus package and has joined other Republican politicians in claiming the stimulus doesn't create jobs.
And now he is holding the Obama Administration hostage because his buddies at Airbus aren't getting a contract awarded to Boeing.
Loser and traitor who has proven his stripes as an anti-American time and time again.
Originally elected as a Democrat, he switched to the GOP after the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994. Shows ya what a REAL scumbag this guy is, and is NOT loyal to anyone or anything, just the winning side, and right now he thinks the Foreign interests in his State are winning.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4648161Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, according to sources familiar with the probe.
Specifically, Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing, according to the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the case.
Cameron did not air the material. Moments after Shelby spoke with Cameron, he met with CNN reporter Dana Bash, and about half an hour after that, CNN broadcast the material, the sources said. CNN cited "two congressional sources" in its report. .......
The disclosure involved two messages that were intercepted by the National Security Agency on the eve of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but were not translated until Sept. 12. The Arabic-language messages said "The match is about to begin" and "Tomorrow is zero hour." The Washington Post, citing senior U.S. intelligence officials, reported the same messages in its June 20, 2002, editions. .......
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/179748.php