Catch Niedermeyer On The PBS Newshour Tomorrow Evening

And I can turn all of these on their heads, while adding a few more entertaining ones to boot: 1) According to several on the left, the federal government regularly lies to people, tramples the interests of the others and only serves the interests of the powerful. It was built on the foundation of slave labor in the 1700s, and pretty much went downhill from there. But it's okay to allow the government to run health care under a single-payer system, because...well, we can trust it with this one, because good intentions are enough. As we all know, lefties never abuse government power. 2) Pointing out the fact that Medicare is going broke, or that there are serious problems with the public education monopoly automatically makes one suspect. Further pointing out that increased expenditures on things like education do not bring about a corresponding increase in results proves that...you don't care about children, grandma, or the victim du jour. 3) The support of war is found only among trigger-happy right-wingers, and as they reflexively support a military response to every situation. These facts - that many Democrats supported both the Iraq War and the Gulf War, and that Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt actively supported America's entry into World War I when it didn't really involve us, and that progressive Teddy Roosevelt almost singlehandedly brought about American involvement in the Spanish-American War - are conveniently ignored. 4) The actions of the Hoover Administration in the wake of the 1929 crash - jawboning companies to maintain wages, raising taxes, passing the draconian Hawley Smoot tariffs to "protect" American industry, using the Federal Reserve to throttle the money supply out of fears of inflation (when the problem was deflation) - somehow constitute a laissez-faire approach to what should have been a short and sharp recession (and a needed correction to the stock market excesses of 1928-29). The fact that these interventions made the situation WORSE are conveniently ignored, as is the example of the 1920-21 recession, which quickly turned around when the government cut taxes and let the situation work itself out. 5) Here's another one - when Republicans give aid to various industries, it's called corporate welfare, and proof that they favor special interests over everyone else. When liberals support bankrupt companies that are failing because their products were clearly inferior to the competition, and give a sweetheart deal to a union that helped bring about those companies' bankruptcy, but was a big political donor to Democrats, we call the first "saving a critical industry" and the second...we just ignore it and denounce anyone who notices as "partisan" or "someone who doesn't care about American industry." 6) Oh, and here's another one - when Enron fails, and it turns out that George Bush received money from the company in the form of campaign contributions, and knew the CEO, its failure is his fault, even though he wasn't running the company, and he correctly didn't use government influence to prevent the failure. When it turns out the Bernie Madoff was giving heavily to Democrats while fleecing a bunch of victims of their life savings, we don't hear a peep from Democrats or liberals about that key fact. 7) And one for the road - when George Bush opens a detention center for terrorists in Cuba, supports and signs into law changes to allow increased domestic surveillance, it's proof that Bush in particular and Republicans in general don't care about the United States Constitution. When the current president who campaigned on changing those policies leaves them intact, while adding a few twists of his own (making it easier for the federal government to assassinate people abroad), the people who were foaming at the mouth over Bush's policies seem to have been struck with amnesia, or at least laryngitis. Does THAT help?

So, let me get this straight - you oppose PBS, because it's funded by the government, and you're opposed to the government because it bailed out GM. And you oppose PBS, because it's funded by Toyota, and Toyota is competing with American car companies like GM... No, that can't be, because you were opposed to the bailout of GM, which by definition hurt Toyota... Or is it that the government was attacking Toyota during pedalgate in order to prop up American automakers, and so government employees must therefore... be... buying Toyotas? Gosh darnit, I just can't keep it all straight in my head!

I thought the revolving door was rotating in the opposite direction. IIRC two ex-nhtsa employees went to tmc usa.