Cars, Czars and Commissars

This was not my first choice for today’s post but something hit me so profoundly that I had to write a little something.

Months ago it was clear that General Motors was in trouble. My inclination was to let ‘em go into Chapter 11 and I suspect that millions of other Americans agreed.

Huge amounts of pressure from the UAW and the Democratic Party incited a scream of outrage from the mass-media.

“Too big to fail”, they proclaimed. “Bush doesn’t care about the job losses”, they trumpeted. And, with an election in the offing, the previous administration caved and doled out the first of that which would become a $100 Billion handout.

Then came a change of control in Washington D.C.

Now Lord Obama, the Messiah, the Most Merciful is at the helm. And now GM becomes Government Motors with Obama holding the steering wheel. Way back, he claimed that with 2 wars to run he was too busy to run GM.

Well now he’s got 3 wars and 2 financial crises but he can still find time to take 3 airplanes to New York, screw up traffic for miles and delay the performance’s start for an hour. And do all of that while, according to him, we’re in the deepest recession since the thirties.

And still Michelle looks angry. Would anybody like to suggest why that is? Maybe the Lanvin store was out of her size this week? Well, they’d better get it right soon.

Anyway so far, Obama has fired the old CEO from General Motors, he’s appointed an interim board overruling any appointees the Court may wish.

Then, today, in a rambling statement ( the teleprompter was broken perhaps) Obama declared that, because of the wars he has to manage and the allies he has to insult and the enemies he has to kiss, he has no desire nor the time to look after GM.

I’m sure that sounded pretty good for some until you look a little further. Remember, the man is a lawyer and parsing the language ranks higher than a determination to practice law. So when he said, “the US government will not be involved in the running of GM in all but the most fundamental ways”; what did that mean? To some perhaps it means very little. Fundamental to me, though, it means the roots, the foundation, the very basis, the very heart.

Would you buy a car from this man!

Check out the Chevy Spark!

And still, when I asked an Obama proponent; "What has he actually done"? The response I got was, "He's talking to people".

So is Jerry Springer!