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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
It's Ford or Foreign from Now On (UPDATED AGAIN)
I've been wondering how Obama was going to sell Democrat cars to Republicans. Now that Chrysler and GM are puppets of the administration and the UAW owns and operates them, Republican car buyers must realize that an even larger portion of the purchase price of a new car is going to fund Democrat candidates and issues.
As a result, they'll turn to alternatives that have less rent-seeking baggage. Megan McArdle observed a month ago that Ford is feeling really good:
It’s just going from bad to worse. Where in the hell are the republican congresscritters and senators? Our country is being destroyed every single day and they are nowhere to be seen or heard. It should not matter whether they can realistically stop anything or not...they should be out in front everyday shouting from the rooftops!
I am getting fed up with the lot of them.