SCOTUS, Chrysler, Bond Holders, And Bankruptcy

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler

Twenty close of last year, the President Bush told us we are going to start looking seriously at offshore drilling, thus increasing supply,  as a way of bringing down oil prices.  Based solely on that move, worldwide oil prices went

The leftards railed against the circa five thousand soldiers were lost in Iran.   You know the chant:  Bush lied, people died.    Yet Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency standards are already killing people,  Karl, Hot Air:

As for the increased motorist

Heh. Glenn notes a story that Jim Quinn noted this morning on the War Room.

One of the biggest concerns people have with buying smal cars is crash safety. More specifically, there are concerns about what happens when a small

Mike Allen and Josh Gerstien at The Politico:

The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.

On Monday, President Barack Obama is to

James Joyner, this morning:

President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.”

“We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help

So what have we discovered of the nebulous administration of one Barack Obama?   Two things, one, Obama isn’t very good at governing and doesn’t like it ; two BO likes to campaign.   So with the fate of Porkulus hanging in

On Saturday, Brian Douglass opened up over at Pajamas Media:

A little over a year ago, Honda’s luxury Acura brand was criticized for not offering a powerful V8 engine in its flagship sedan. After all, the pundits opined, luxury buyers

This is what I was faced with when I left work the other day. My beloved Rainier was covered in snow, and was nearly invisible given the remaining light.

What you don’t see in the picture is the foot of

A great, great writeup in the Wall Street Journal, today, by Holman Jenkins.

Like all regulatory schemes, Congress’s hallowed Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules froze in place a conception of the auto industry as it appeared to the simple

Hat tip:  Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit.

What a businessman, turned poltician, knows that leftards like Dirty Harry Reid and Mrs. Pelosi don’t, on what needs be done to fix Detroit, via Ace:

First, their huge disadvantage in costs relative to foreign brands must be eliminated.

For all us who have either eat or drive, or both, and feed up with paying more at the pump for diluted gasoline and more for food, Henry Payne,  Climate Change Fraud:

The ethanol mandate: Raising your food prices

James at OTB this morning examines an issue which the price of oil has been bringing to the fore, called “The Future of Suburbia”.   Now, look; I admit I pushed this one a bit off James’ intended thrust. I

Lots of comment this morning, centered on the Washington Post Op-Ed of yesterday, which spends it’s time destroying three basic arguments of those against offshore drilling.

However, it propagates a couple barrels of snake oil. The most offensive of the