I hate to say this but I'm calling BS on Debbie Stabenow.

[Skidmore]

I watched Hardball yesterday and its repeat this morning. Stabenow was on giving a gazillion ways to Sunday as to why we need to yet again bail out the automobile industry. Among these was enumerated that component suppliers would be affected--the same suppliers who supply anyone from the aerospace industries to the computer and defense industries. I'm sorry, but that is just a bogus argument. Component supply sources could continue to supply those industries. They definitely would be operating at smaller volume.

I really do think that the automobile industry hasn't volunteered that it is willing to undergo drastic changes in how it conducts business and the products it puts out. I'm not very sympathetic to a bail out and I do think that Congress needs to pull funds back from Paulson. I'm not real happy with what is going on now and think that really noone in government does more than get together in the back rooms and divines from sheep entrails.

It's time to tighten the belt and for all of us to step forward to solve problems. I'm hoping that Obama can oversee such an effort after he steps up, but I fear that we need to do it sooner--like yesterday.