Chyrysler’s bankruptcy may not be quick — because of those pesky creditors. Slammed by the president in true populist fashion as “speculators” (otherwise known as people whose money funded Chrysler and who have a legal right to get some of it back), they  may object and seek time-consuming valuations of their claims.

And, yes, it’s not easy to stand up to bullies. The the funds which did so deserve praise. But most of all they deserve a fair hearing on their legal claims.

While it’s true the UAW got an unprecedented sweetheart deal, remember that the 55% is 55% of Chrysler. Struggling for a deal to preside over a hobbled company may not have been the smartest move for the UAW.

If ever we needed a “truth commission” it would be to get to the bottom of the now-dismissed AIPAC case and the wiretapping of Rep. Jane Harman. Something very bad happened here and it would be nice to know why and who was responsible.

“White Man Need Not Apply” says the ever-flip Mark Halperin of the Supreme Court nominees. We have come so far that such a headline would not seem racist nor even obnoxious to the MSM elites. But of course, knowing the “diversity” lobby that surrounds and indeed populates this administration it may be somewhat true.

Jon Stewart says it was “stupid” to call Truman a war criminal because it was a hard call whether to drop the atomic bomb during a war. But Bush on the other hand had to make a hard call during a war so. . . Oh wait. What is Stewart’s point then?

Meanwhile, Bill Kristol cuts through the blather of the week: “Republicans and conservatives have a lot of work to do over the coming months and years. In one way, an additional Democratic senator and a younger liberal Supreme Court justice make the hurdles a little higher. But Arlen Specter and David Souter weren’t going to help the cause of a revitalized conservatism–and their departures provide a chance to begin to clarify the alternative to Obama-ism that conservatives must offer in time for 2010, and especially 2012.”

Even Harry Reid has figured it out: cap-and-trade likely isn’t going anywhere. He only has 39 votes, it seems.

Remember how Obama excoriated the military commissions for trials of terror detainees? That’s so 2008. “But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.’The more they look at it,’ said one official, ‘the more commissions don’t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.’” Yeah, once you get facts things can look totally different. I wonder if the same will hold true for Guantanamo itself.

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