I’ve been un-blogging of late. I’ve been busy, I’ve been cranky, and I’ve been tired of pawing over the same well-turned earth that’s kept me occupied for the last five or six years of my life.

It gets a little tiresome after a while.

But every day just gets me crankier, hoping like hell that things (in a national, political sense) would turn a corner and we’d be heading down a Clintonian path rather than Sir Don Ryder. To anyone who has looked at what happened to the British auto industry after the government took a heavy-handed role in running the affairs of British Leyland, it should be terrifying to read these words:

Obama Halves Chrysler’s Planned Marketing Budget.

And General Motors, heading down the same path as Chrysler, should be terrified about the future of their company.

If you haven’t studied up on BLMC, now would be a good time because it looks like our current government plans on traveling a very similar path. Trace the paths of Jaguar, MG, Triumph, and Austin Healyey to see what happens when the government starts making decisions for auto companies. Even the latter day successes (Mini, for example) were bought up and are now run by others (BMW in that particular instance). Hopefully that isn’t the fate of GM and Chrysler, but I wouldn’t put my money on it either by buying stock or buying one of their cars.

Just sayin’.