Here's another good reason why Detroit's (shrinking) Big Three shouldn't get a bailout

It leaves the nation wide open to more environmental thuggery, and an extension of Big Government's far reaching control over yet another aspect of society in an attempt to regulate public behavior to some wacked-out "progressive" agenda item standard.

Senator Jim Inhofe:

"This latest bout of environmental thuggery is not an isolated incident. The legislative goals of Democrats and their environmental allies reveal that saving jobs is not their highest priority.

President-elect Obama has pledged to grant California a global warming motivated waiver to allow the state to demand its own standards of emission reductions from new autos. This would essentially allow a state by state approach, thus creating a patchwork of regulatory compliance regimes in addition to the federal standard that would be even more costly for automobile manufacturers.

The Wall Street Journal summed up this attempted hostile green takeover and the efforts to create an 'Environmental Motor Company' this way:

'All of this shows that Democrats don't merely want to save jobs. They want an entirely different American auto industry that serves goals other than selling cars to consumers. The green lobbies have disliked Detroit for decades -- for resisting fleet mileage standards and having the audacity to make SUVs, trucks and other vehicles that people have wanted to buy but that violate modern environmental pieties. For the greens, the bailout is their main chance to remake Detroit according to their dictates.'"

Our never ending battle to combat the insidious Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" influence needs to be stepped up to a new and more aggressive level to make sure the Obama administration and his Kongressional Klown Klub pals don't wreak total havoc upon our nation.

The automakers' plight is a good place to draw the line.