Would SOMEONE please stand up to these idiots?! bk, thank you for including the following quote, because I think it’s one of the more important ones in the story:

“Feinstein said Toyota grew “more remote and less transparent” over attempts by her office to determine NUMMI’s fate and weigh options.”

These people are power-hungry dictators! Toyota grew “more remote and less transparent?” Excuse me? Since when does her office have the responsibility or authority to decide what Toyota does with it’s assets? And let’s be honest, it’s not NUMMI because NUMMI ceased to exist when GM was hoisted into the Obama dinghy.

Sorry for the rant, but the extent to which this Congress consistently oversteps its bounds is absolutely disturbing.

Her staff has met with the Obama administration’s autos task force to discuss other manufacturing options for the facility.

No fig leaf left – it’s officially Government Motors

Her staff has met with the Obama administration’s autos task force to discuss other manufacturing options for the facility.

It doesn’t say that Diane met with GM officials (or Chrysler or Ford), which are the logical decision-makers one would expect if we’re talking about a non-governmental companey. Rather she’s going to “consult” the auto task force. The only conclusion is that, like Barney Frank, Diane going to exert political pressure through this pannel to make GM or Chrysler an offer they can’t refuse to manufacture cars at Fremont and save the UAW’s bacon.

Don’t know if GM or Chrysler will pony up, but it’s going to be more taxpayer dollars down the drain. As business decisions are going to be dictated by Congress. Welcome to mafia government.

Worse, if Diane is successful, she will be hailed by the California papers for “saving jobs” rather than pillories for further sabotaging the health of the victim company and costing more taxpayer dollars.

But hey, so long as we get ours, who cares about a healthy economy – or a government of laws, right?.

And this is what is going to happen with ObamaCare – political decisions will favor certain groups (starting with Congress’ families and big Labor) – and by uneconomically driving up the price will screw everyone else. This is what happens when politicians are in charge of business decisions.

it would simply be cheaper to restart construction at the idled Mississippi plant Toyota has as well as move Tacoma production to Texas than try to go it alone at NUMMI. With the high operating costs associated there, like the CA taxes, enviro regs, there was simply no way Toyota could go it alone, not in this market. Leave it to the union to slam Toyota for making a sound business decision. BTW, I don’t know if Toyota will resume construction on the Mississppi plant, but it was an option being discussed. Now that Cash for Clunkers is over, they’re taking a wait-and-see approach.

I think we’re going to have to look at a Corolla for her.

The UAW and Democrats are mad that these thousands of laid off union workers are no longer going to be able to fund their left-wing causes.

Conservatives need to boycott ALL of the Big 3,(GM, Chrysler and Ford). I’m willing to bet most of the Big 3 sales come from Republican consumers. I know some conservatives say we should cut Ford some slack since they didn’t accept bailout dollars, but they still use UAW labor, and that’s the main problem. The UAW gives hundreds of millions to causes and provides all sorts of resources to left-wing causes and candidates. Consumers are unwittingly bankrolling these political activities. In addition, the Ford Foundation gives millions to all sorts of liberal causes.

Buy brands like Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc. Most of their models have a large manufacturing presence here, and their workers aren’t donating MASSIVE amounts of money and man power to left-wing causes.

I’ve only owned american cars for the last 20 years. That won’t be the case in the next 20. To buy a GM or a Chrysler would be voting for socialism….and I just can’t do that. I now want GM and Chrysler to FAIL.

The government can’t even win the Cash For Clunkers race….even when they wrote the rules. The government owners are useless. Fire the government.

Oh, and Toyota only used that plant to assemble the cars….thereby avoiding huge import/excise taxes. The same logic applies in the south.