F*ck Toyota’s stock price. Toyota should have thought of that before they f*cked up their brake/accelerator software AND/OR hardware in 2.3 million cars in the USA and 7 million world wide.
Rest easy, they have a fix! First it was removing floor mats, then they wanted to shave down gas pedals, now its a metal plate added to the gas pedal. You know what that means? They don’t know. They don’t f*cking know. And they don’t care to know because Toyota’s main concern as a “corporate citizen” was protecting its profit margins by preventing a full scale recall as opposed to finding a real solution:
The Detroit Free Press explains, “Toyota’s leading U.S. executive boasted to the automaker’s Washington staff last summer that they had saved the company more than $100 million by limited any regulatory action on sudden acceleration to a recall of equipment such as floor mats, according to documents turned over to a key U.S. House committee holding hearings on the issue Wednesday.” The News notes, “Earlier this month before the hybrid recall, Toyota executives estimated that the unintended acceleration recalls would cost $2 billion in lost sales and cost of extra parts for repairs.”
The “fixes” they seem like placebos. Compare what real people’s concerns are:
…to what the f*ck CNBC is talking about:
It’s winter in much of America and 2.3 million of these cars can potentially have this. Here is the fix. It’s a transparent attempt to placate car buyers. Not a parts replacement, software upgrade, a stupid sugar pill of a modification.
These cars have an all too high chance of not working in the most basic way you expect a car to work. La Hood shouldn’t have had to back track, he was exactly right. If it was a baby car seat that didn’t buckle babies in, this would be a no brain-er, its just that the companies that create the vehicles that you strap a baby car seats into have better lobbyists. Your baby is no more safe.
Good thing Toyota can find ways to dump even more cash directly into our politicians coffers thanks to the Citizens United vs. FEC ruling. When they make a Corolla where the wheels may fall of when you make left turns, a house resolution will be introduced to declare them “car of the year”.
For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.
While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding. Previously, the report concluded that two key authors—Jay Bybee, now a federal appellate court judge, and John Yoo, now a law professor—violated their professional obligations as lawyers when they crafted a crucial 2002 memo approving the use of harsh tactics, say two Justice sources who asked for anonymity discussing an internal matter. But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed “poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state bar associations for potential disciplinary action—which, in Bybee’s case, could have led to an impeachment inquiry.
If this is true and as plain as Bybee and Yoo being cleared, the Obama Administration has proven that it has no interest in curbing the frightening expansion of the unitary executive as defined by Bush White House and the Holder Justice Department has proven it has feigned independence all along.
In addition, the fact that a 59-41 Democratic majority in the Senate means that the Senators need that same President to be their daddy to tell them where to go, before they miss every deadline, weaken the effect of every bill they write for political expediency means that there is no hope that they will pass progressive legislation making administration attorneys professionally and legally responsible for the memos they write. Even when they break the law.
“Because of that blindness, this administration cannot see a foreign terrorist even when he stands right in front of them, fresh from an attempt to blow a plane out of the sky on Christmas Day,” she said.
“There’s no other way to explain the irresponsible, indeed dangerous, decision on Abdulmutallab’s interrogation. There’s no other way to explain the inconceivable treatment of him as if he were a common criminal.”
Boo! The supposed picture of GOP moderation, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), basically has no belief that the American justice system cannot properly deal with Adbul Mutallab’s trial. Doesn’t sound to moderate to me.
