From the scope of the IG report into the warrantless wiretap program, it seems the investigation is inadequate. But it does tell us more about the program.

Darrell Issa wants more of your tax dollars with which to be an asshole.

It seems that Michael Mukasey made a thus far successful effort to stall out production of the OPR report on Yoo and Bradbury.

A bunch of Third Way hacks have convinced Pool Boy (Jim VandeHei) to tell you that cars are bigger deadbeats than banks.

Nate, who is more of a Michigander than I am, drew this not-pretty picture of GM’s operating margin over the last half century. He explains that this picture shows that GM has been using healthcare and pension promises to put off the time it registers these real costs on its balance sheet as a way to get the benefit of labor but put off paying the true costs of it.

GM was

The banksters, in an attempt to distance themselves from what happened to the Big 2.5 yesterday, are claiming their business model is still viable. I’m not so convinced.

It sure looks like a Bush flunkie just wasted the back-up retirement fund a lot of Americans are going to need in hopes that it might get John McCain elected.

John Hannah basically confirmed Sy Hersh’s reporting that JSOC had an assassination squad that bypassed normal channels of command.

Bob Corker’s wailing up a storm because Obama hasn’t busted the UAW yet. And then he’s wailing up a storm to keep his UAW GM plant in TN.

Let me start by saying I’m non-plussed by the call for Rick Wagoner’s head. I think Wagoner was making the right moves recently, but he was also responsible for years of inaction. So I’m not sorry to see him gone. In any case, Obama is forcing out the entire board of GM, so Wagoner would have had to go anyway.

That said, here’s what Obama seems to be announcing today:Chrysler will be