Only the obvious can be said about this idiotic way of going about asking the public for their money. The argument from the companies has been that it's for their safety and it's corporate policy. If only their were actual award shows for lamest excuse ever.

First of all, I don't know about you, but I would sooner recognize the starting first baseman for the Buffalo Bison than I would some schmuck CEO from GM, nor would I feel the need to jump them if I knew who they were. Actually, if I saw one of them on a plane now with us simple folk after the whole "using a corporate jet to ask for public funds" thing, I would probably want to beat the crap out of them with the wads of cash they're so desperately seeking.

Second, I understand it's corporate policy to fly on their corporate jets, but it is NOT corporate policy to go bankrupt, so I think the rules have changed a bit.

Now the auto execs are claiming that this whole debacle is just creating a distraction from the far greater problem of American jobs being lost. Need I remind them that this is a distraction that they created by taking the corporate jet? Did a madman point a gun to their head and say "Yeah, yeah! That's right, get in the corporate jet and everything will be okay!"

Personally, I think their fighting this only makes them look worse and they should probably just admit the mistake and try to move on. Bottom line, after this unfavorable PR hit - ranking up their with Ted Haggard's PR hit after it was discovered he had something else coming out of his mouth other than bullshit - the Big Three CEOs better be hitchhiking their way back. I hope they've read the book of the road (see below for explanation).