You said: "There's no need to pardon anyone who hasn't been charged with a crime, who committed no crime, and whose only guilt exists in the minds of the fringe wackadoodle left."

That’s right Elephantman, there was no torture, manufacturing evidence to go to war, wiretapping abuse or outing of CIA agents. It’s all just a figment of the left’s “wackadoodle” imagination.

Seriously, what are you smoking and where I can get some!

I'm a liberal. I’ve been for a long time and unless I somehow get obscenely rich and develop a mean, selfish streak I plan to be one for a long time.

I haven’t read the book or seen the movie yet but from what I understand Edward is a vampire who doesn’t actually consume human blood. Knowing a little bit about Stephanie Meyer’s religious background (she’s a devout Mormon) I can’t help but suspect that having a main character that doesn’t succumb to his baser desires is a thinly veiled metaphor for sexual abstinence (one of Mormonism's favorite preoccupations). I’m not sure if others feel the same way but as far as I’m concerned having a vampire that doesn’t sink his teeth into some juicy warm flesh takes all the bite out of the myth.

If it's so dumb Alex, why the hell are you even commenting on it?

They kill the electric car, build clunky huge cars despite knowing good and well that the trend lies elsewhere and then stop focusing on building cars as a pillar of their industry to provide cheap financing to get rid of the giant pieces of crap they do build.

Let them die the painful death of all bad business models!

If we took the money the big three were asking for and invested it in new and upcoming transportation companies that were lean, hungry and truly innovative—we might just see a good return on that investment.

The big three are behemoths; slow, cumbersome giants that give lip service to innovation but then go out of their way to crush it (watch ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ if you have any doubts in this area). Have the big three used their vast resources and formerly deep pockets to take leadership in the automobile market? Have they created vehicles that will help wean American’s off foreign oil? Have they invested substantial sums in alternative energy vehicles and then pushed to get them on the market? Have they been a net asset to this country for the past 30 years? I think the answer to all four of those questions is a resounding NO!

What they have done is continued to make gas guzzling clunkers in an age when any sensible person knew they were already an anachronism. Then they pushed them on an already congested suburbia with obscenely low financing so that every trailer park dweller thought they could own a new SUV despite living on a 12 dollar an hour salary. What they have done is given up on automobile production as their main source of income to focus on financing and getting you to buy their crap. What they have done is used their considerable political clout to perpetuate the myth that every American should have two big fat cars in their garage despite the fact that we no longer have the carrying capacity for this way of life and perpetuating it is both dangerous and stupid. What they have done is lobbied relentlessly for their own preservation at the expense of other leaner and meaner transportation industries—and the country’s greater good.

Let them die the quick and painful deaths they deserve. Sure, it will hurt a few people at first. There will be some unemployment for a short time. There will be void in the industry for a little while. But new ideas, opportunities and companies will emerge from the ashes—and quickly—that will be innovative and daring and lead to a renaissance in this country’s transportation systems.

The net effect of baling the big three out would be to throw good money at a problem—not a solution. The big three have outgrown their use and giving them CPR right now would be like expending time and money to push a beached whale back into the water just to watch it beach itself again the next day.

The net effect of NOT baling the big three out would eventually be a vibrant, profitable and diversified transportation industry that meets the needs of the American people.

There must be a more sustainable and economical way of compensating for a small penis than buying a Hummer!