UPDATE:  Chrysler has released a statement in response to Obama’s announcement saying, “We are pleased that Chrysler, Fiat and Cerberus have reached agreement on a global alliance, supported by the U.S. Treasury.”
Click here for the full statement.
ORIGINAL: Obama is putting the smack down on the auto industry today. Neither General Motors, whose CEO Rick Wagner [...]

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Instead of having just one brain behind how to save the auto industry, Obama will be appointing a presidential task force. Tim Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers will oversee the panel to restructure sad losers General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.
On Tuesday, the car companies are expected to turn in their homework [...]

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To celebrate their seventy-fifth anniversary, Esquirhas been doing a number of cover re-creations.  Click here to check them out.
Newsweek, for it’s part, is just going with the half face theme.  There was apparently not enough space for all the evil.

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Last week, observing how low the bar had been set for Sarah Palin going into the VP debate, I wrote: ”when did it become seen as ‘legitimate’ for our leaders (and the media) to make excuses for someone’s ignorance on matters vital to our security as a nation?”
My point was that it is a dangerous practice we’re engaging [...]

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This should be a thin issue.

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