“I don’t know anything about cars”…

…says the new government-appointed chairman of the General Motors board.
But it’s okay. He has vowed to learn about them soon.

The Nerve

Chrysler took out a $100,000 ad in The Wall Street Journal thanking the country for bailing them out. Radley Balko says it best:
Chrysler spends $100K on a full-page ad…thanking American taxpayers for a bailout most of the public opposed, Congress never approved, and that you average taxpayer had no choice but to help fund, [...]

More ‘Lunatics’

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson considers these people lunatics for supporting bankruptcy for the Big Three automakers.
Robinson’s  List O’ Loons, H/T Conn Carrol:
John Bates Clark Medal winner and Columbia University economics professor Joseph Stiglitz
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig
John Bates Clark Medal winner and Nobel laureate Gary Becker
I’m referring to his latest column, where [...]

Washington Post: More Than Half of Us Are Crazy

Conn Carrol rightly points out:

Washington Post assistant managing editor Eugene Robinson believes that anyone who opposes a federal government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler is a ‘lunatic’. So how does The Washington Post deal with the fact that their latest survey shows 55% of the American people oppose that very bailout? Well you bury [...]