What a wonderful world: in 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower nominated Charles E. (Engine Charlie) Wilson as Secretary of Defense. During the closed hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee on his confirmation, Wilson made a comment that was widely misquoted and was to dog him throughout his governmental years. According to the press, Wilson told the Senators: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." What he actually said: "For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." At the time of his nomination as Secretary of Defense, Wilson was CEO of General Motors. Flash forward to March 29, 2009, and we find that the Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed. In a way, the POTUS was keeping faith with Engine Charlie because Rick Wagoner wasn't good for either GM or the country. Now, if only the POTUS would send the same message to Tiny Tim over at Treasury. If this is (fair & balanced) longing, so be it.
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This Modern World — "Elegant Non-Simplicity Or Communofascism?"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
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