On...GM, The Future, and Michigan's Great Depression

I would say this article [Big Three Confront Rough Road] on the future of the Auto Industry by the Detroit News is a must read, especially for those who live in Michigan. The authors ask a lot of important questions that I hope the folks in DC are asking themselves and trying to get the answers to. Unfortunately, I think they are ignoring too many of them.

Addition:

Richard A. Posner in Atlantic Monthly has another fine blog piece on GM and Government Take Over. You can find it HERE

On..David Brooks

Welcome Back (Hopefully to stay)

I've enjoyed David Brooks for sometime. His book Bobos in Paradise is a minor classic, but the last few years he has become the most staunch and mythical centrist on the planet. I've had a number of conversations about him with colleagues and he has almost become a joke on how middle of the road-utopian he has tried to be. I don't know if occurred when he was hired by the New York Times to be their token "conservative" or it's simply his good guy genes. Occasionally he has a good article but he's been so centrist it's sucked the life out of his writing. He had been the post-boy for post-partisanship. I don't know how such a smart guy can belief in such magical nonsense. Obama and Rove-clone Gibbs are already using bi-partisanship as a weapon against the Right. [Isn't Gibbs just odious? He makes me physically sick.]

Well, maybe Brooks is having the avalon-snakeskin removed from his eyes. He really nails this whole GM-Obama-Big Government mess on the head in his article today.

I encourage everyone to read it. It goes nicely with the Detroit News' latest editorial.

BROOKS: CAR DEALER-IN-CHIEF

DETROIT NEWS: DeFacto Take Over