Comments on: Dealergate and the MSM

By: Chew On This: These Car Dearships are going fast « Chockblock’s blog

Chew On This: These Car Dearships are going fast « Chockblock’s blog — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:14:27 +0000

[...] the subject of Dealergate, the US Media is, as usual, asleep at the switch. (Michelle [...]

By: Michigan Taxes Too Much » Some more Michigan Tea Party photos, & a little about “Independence”

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:11:17 +0000

[...] And how are we allowing others who do not share our belief sets, our fundamental principles, our glue that binds us as a family of traditionalists with freedoms no other countries allow? We offer up our agreements, and capitulation on certain issues, one at a time. We give in to the small demands that aggregately dissipates the rights we claim to hold as God given, and unbreakable. We allow the best intentions to obfuscate the reality of an ever growing authoritarian reality; that of a dictatorial regime that makes or breaks banks, producers, or those who speak up against it. [...]

By: Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:45:54 +0000

I guess this means that, over time, we’ll start seeing more tricked out cars with giant gold rims and hot-pink interiors…

By: jsmiddleton4

jsmiddleton4 — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:42:57 +0000

“I believe both GM and Chrysler will go out of business”

It is only a matter of time. Even if the government agreed to only buy GM or Chrysler, they’d still go out of business. Yes the government buys a lot of cars. But not that many cars and the entire government fleet is not replaced every year.

By: jsmiddleton4

jsmiddleton4 — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:40:59 +0000

But I say that’s what’s wrong with our “country – it has lost its stomach for identifying, much less confronting, evil.”

Sorry but what has happened in our country is good men/women did nothing thinking someone else would do it for them. As a result conservatism took a big hit. The way back is for conservatives to get busy and stand up. Labeling the “other” side as “evil” is inaccurate, a distraction and ineffective.

Unless you have a conservative TV talk show or radio show.

Change will happen when WE get busy and take action.

By: The Dealergate Post That Will Make No One Happy « Political Math

The Dealergate Post That Will Make No One Happy « Political Math — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:18:51 +0000

[...] May 29, 2009 I noticed yesterday that a good number of people are getting worked up because it looks like a large number of the Chysler dealerships that are being closed are heavy Republican donors. (Michelle Malkin does her usual roundup here) [...]

By: Obama: The New Chevy Celebrity ‘Eurosport Edition’ | The Great Illuminator

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:18:33 +0000

[...] creditors, threats, and control to protect the investments of donors like the UAW and contributing dealer owners. Oh, and lets not forget that Dems now have the power to force the auto industry into building [...]

By: iamsaved

iamsaved — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:16:35 +0000

It could be just a coincidence that most of the dealerships slated to be shut down were Republican contributors. Sort of like it was a coincidence that Al Franken miraculously found 400 or 500 hundred votes to come from behine against Norm Coleman.

By: MtsEdge

MtsEdge — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:52 +0000

On May 28th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
If dealerships (who cost the automakers nothing) were unprofitable, they would shut themselves down.

Exactly. The government doesn’t need to decide which dealerships must be shut down.

By: twofoot

twofoot — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:15:29 +0000

Slightly ot, but dealers closing doesn't bother me. It does bother me that it's a decision made by Washington slime however. But since I will never buy another vehicle made by union labor?

By: Pasadena Phil

Pasadena Phil — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:41:29 +0000

If dealerships (who cost the automakers nothing) were unprofitable, they would shut themselves down.

The two primary cost issues with the US automakers has been crushing legacy labor costs and overcapacity because unions make closing idle plants more expensive than keeping them open.

I believe both GM and Chrysler will go out of business unless they get permanent anti-competitive advantages that enable them to sell their inferior cars at below fair-market price. Advantages like free government loans, government pension plans and all sorts of tax breaks no one else gets. A Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac solution.

Just think of all the new Beltway billionaires reaping the new source of massive “campaign contributions” and cushy post-Congress sinecures.

By: Malkin reports on Dealergate and the Main Stream Media Bias « Caeri’s Conservative Chronicle

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:47:13 +0000

[...] Malkin reports on Dealergate and the Main Stream Media Bias May 28, 2009 Michelle Malkin was on Fox News discussing the Dealergate issue– that is the fact that nearly all of the [...]

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:35:20 +0000

http://townhall.com/cartoons/2009/05/28/4

1 cartoon = 1000 words

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:33:33 +0000

Industry analysts said the reductions at both G.M. and Chrysler were overdue, given their falling sales.

“These companies are making up now for what they have avoided doing for years, if not decades,” said John Casesa of the automotive consulting firm Casesa Shapiro Group. “And if the market doesn’t stabilize, this may only be Phase 1.”

Oh, shoot…

if GM or Chrysler are the only lines these dealers are going to sell…

you ain’t see NUTTIN yet.

As I said earlier, the only reliable market for these brands will be government.

Only one dealership needed.

By: flenser

flenser — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:33:03 +0000

Industry analysts said the reductions at both G.M. and Chrysler were overdue, given their falling sales.

Yes, but industry analysts did not say that profitable dealerships should be closed on political grounds.