Obama and his bunch have never existed outside academia and government. Their only tools are taxes, handouts and laws. And now these fine people are going to take what was once the largest automobile manufacturer in the world and ‘rescue’ it. One would suppose that they are going to apply the same principles to GM that they’ve done to the government.

As usual, Mike Ramirez nails it with a cartoon:

This is really scary to me, folks, that the full force of the government of the United States is willingly brought to bear on private industry and private individuals. Yes, granted that GM is in big trouble. But a lot of that trouble can be laid at the feet of Washington, and GM is made to be a big boogyman by a complicit media happily running the stories spun the way the Obama administration wants them to be heard.

So who’s going to be the next target, and which industry will NEXT be stripped of leaders and re-manned by Obama’s lackies? I’m betting Big Oil is on the agenda. I wouldn’t be surprised if food giants like Archer Daniels Midland and Tyson and others are on a list in some desk drawer.

You want to see crises? We’re going to see crises, because each crisis comes with an implicit (in liberal minds) that government Do Something. And this is just the administration to do it.

And if you want to think about how well the government handles things, just think about every negative story you heard about those poor Katrina victims waiting for government to Do Something.

And think of how well-managed public housing is. And if the government can’t get those right, how, exactly, do you think they’re going to manage real industries?