Facing the Real Problems with American Car Makers

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

This what Fidel Castro did circa 1950:, via  Steve Gilbert, Sweetness &  Light:

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers,

It matters not what Barack Obama says.   His rhetoric is mere words and all of BO statements come with expiration dates, John Steele Gordon, Commnetary Magazine, reports on what BO says he intends to do:

On February 9th, President

I kiud of agree with Bill Maher, when he says he worried about, “”the chance for people to take horrible action.”   Except that Maher is worried about some hypothhetical.   When in the real world, nutcases are being deliberately

Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of Hope and Change.  There doesn’t appear to be much hope for Hope, but BO is sure bring on the Change, albeit all bad.   BO and his fellow ‘rats in Congress have started a

Old question, new President, David Freddoso, National Review:

Sen. Chris Dodd (D, Conn.), who until today has been blamed as the author of the statutory protection for bonuses, is in turn blaming the Obama administration for insisting on the

The basic problem with the Obama administration is  simple incompetence.  Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News:

Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained

From Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, Overseas Security Advisory Council:

In January, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya increased the minimum wage 60 percent, raising monthly wages from US$ 181 to $289. As a result, an estimated 15,000 people have been laid

I think it’s fair to say that belief in Geithner’s mishandling is now officially unideological:

Mary Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard, quiped after Ann Coulter and Bill Maher agree.

If you want to be in the business of economic recovery you need to do things to encourage that. If you want to be in the business of conducting a grand social experiment, you ignore the advice and pleas of

How clueless is the rookie President Barack Obama?   Enough that Paul Krugman and Charles Krauthammer are on the same page,  first  Krugman:

Many analysts agree. But among people I talk to there’s a growing sense of frustration, even panic,

Yo Eric, Michael Steele got the memo:

“I just want to make one thing very clear. Folks need to understand what’s happening here, Sean. You’ve already talked about it. This is a systematic effort, I think, very well planned out

As the economy and the markets continue to tank, the question become  is the Obama administration just plain inept or purely evil.    The evidence suggests the latter.   The five dumbest word in a soft economy may well be “Cap and

First it was Joe the Plumber, then Rush Limbaugh, then Rick Santelli and now it is Jim Cramer.   Call it a rant, Cramer makes some good points, video:

At some point the Obama administration has to stop trying to shoot

The more the clueless one, a/k/a Barack Obama talks, the more the market tanks BO seeme to think that Main Street and Wall Street are two seperate entities.  BO’s clueless is driving American wealth down.

In contrast, Bobby Jindal has