Driving Rollerskates

David Harsanyi has a marvelous article, dripping with sarcasm up entitled Coming to Your Garage: Le Car over at Townhall.com. Take a peek.

The United States government, if you haven't noticed, owns the auto manufacturing industry, props up the last vestiges of "labor" and soon will bail out the failed state of California. So this harmonizing of disparate interests is what a gracious person might call a "conflict of interest" and an honest person refers to as "racketeering."

Let's, for a moment, stretch the limits of our imaginations and make believe that a Republican candidate won the most recent presidential election. Let's pretend he or she continued the Bush administration's policy of bailing out Detroit, as Obama has done. Imagine, then, that all of these state-backed parties came together to "support" legislation mandating the increased production of SUVs.

I object, in the most strenuous of terms to being forced, by government dictate, to drive a rollerskate because some people, of whose opinion I do not think much, believe that I need to change my way of life, while they fly around in private jets and live in mansions that emit more goofball warmening gases in a week than my place does in a couple of months. So yes, "racketeering" is the word for it. Perhaps they need to be prosecuted under the RICO act? Is it too early to talk about impeachment?