Day: September 20, 2010

GM getting help from its DC friends

The headquarters of the United States Environm...
EPA HQ, where good things happen

Hey, if gummint can’t give a hand to Gummint Motors, what will?

EPA introduces Vehicle grading to Push Chevy Volt

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation are asking the public what [they should know] to make the best economic and environmental decisions when buying a new car. The two agencies are proposing changesto the fuel economy labels consumers see on the window of every new vehicle in dealer showrooms.

To which Freedomist adds this advice:

Learn more and find out how you can view the proposed changes and offer your feedback.  Make Your Voice Heard- tell the EPA where they can put their attempt to sell a Government Motors Car (GM) by emailing them here: newlabels@epa.gov.

You should do this because of your abiding trust in gummint officials, both as to their wisdom and their loving care for you.

While you’re at it, you might do some checking from non-gummint sources, however.

From WSJ- the details of the plan

From Hotair- how GM will benefit

From Edmonds- how the American public overwhelmingly wants neither the grading NOR the overpriced electric car

Re: #3, so what? The American public is not to be trusted in the matter. Gosh!

O’Donnell, you’re soooo bad!

Get thee behind me, Charles Krauthammer.  I renounce you and all your works.

Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea partier Christine O’Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but Pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Barack Obama’s social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda,

he says in today’s Chi Trib, playing the tempter.

He just knows this to be true.  No chance for her, he would like to say, but as a pundit he must cover options, so to O’Reilly he said one in ten.

I say he believes it but is also repelled by the woman, who is socially conservative and un-Harvard-like in ways he finds repellent.  Like Sarah Palin. 

These women do not fit into his worldview except as viewed from the tip of one’s nose, head down slightly, just enough to make his point.

Sorry, Charles, you do not speak to my condition, I being for many months in a life of quiet desperation, politically speaking.

Later great (second) thought: Another interpretation is possible: Charles wants Obama held up at the pass so much that he’s extremely exercised about what he considers blowing the opportunity.  Which makes him too much the rational thinker, not enough the romantic.  The O’Donnell nomination is pressing Tea Party luck — too far, he says.  But this is no time to be squeamish, say the gung-ho revolutionaries, or at least rebellion-pushers.  Among which am I.

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