It is more necessary, IMO, with Chrysler bc the most logical way out for Chrysler is to keep making the changes its making, then sell it to a company taht we think will keep the jobs where they are and won’t steal technology (Nissan-Renault is the best fit, but they don’t want to do it, at least not now). If we let Ceberus pocket bailout money and sell, we’ve rewarded their bad decisions and allowed them to sell to highest bidder (perhaps someone like Dongfeng) withotu us having a say.

That senator in God Father 2 is looking better every day.

When will we hear the powers that be call it “corporate welfare”?

When I was listening to the auto bailout hearings last week here in Dayton (auto land) Ohio I thought Richard Wagoner sounded like the most reasonable of the bunch. I still don’t get how these CEO’s salaries are decided upon. WTF there is not much of a difference between their salaries and the thieves on Wall Street.

The other thing that is still getting under my skin is what congress and others keep referring to these “bailouts” as. First “bailouts” then ” rescue, investments, recovery plans” During the auto bailouts I keep hearing the term “restructuring” Some how we never heard that term or those demands during the Banking industries “Bailout, rescue, investment, recovery” plans. Will Wall Street be forced into “restructuring” as the auto industry is going to be forced to do? Funny what having friends in congress will do for you.

The funniest thing I have heard anyone say about Dan Qualye as of late was when during the Presidential campaign when the MSM was (still it) Palin addicted someone on Hardball said somthing about Qualye’s run as V.P. and Chris Matthews said “I know Dan Qualye and Sarah Palin is no Dan Quayle”

In a piece by Lichtblau and Risen titled, “Panel to Call for Review of Wiretapping of Scholar” way towards the end we get this info from the previously sealed transcript of an Oct hearing in front of Brinkema:

The Justice Department has denied that it had any other evidence of eavesdropping against him other than what it turned over to his lawyers. But the federal judge in the case, Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., has expressed increasing annoyance over persistent questions about the N.S.A.’s possible role.

In a recently unsealed transcript of an October closed-court hearing in the case, the judge stated that she believed that the government appeared to have committed violations of federal rules governing evidence and discovery.

= A Lucrative Way to Control America

So, take down the Big Dog with his Own Sexual Dalliances, help put in the Depraved (and Likely Compromised) PNAC Ideologue Bush, and – After a “Pearl Harbor” Pokes Bush into Playing “W the Moslem Killer UE” – Steal All the Money until the Country is Too Broken to do anything about it.

Now, that’s a plot worthy of the best of James Bond…and Bush would be just the right Perfect Dupe Sucker Player Proud Dumb Rich Guy to Walk Into the Casino at the beginning, wearing snake-skin boots, and thinking he had it All Figured Out…