Now the time has come for me to get a vehicle and I'm at a loss.  What the heck do I buy?  If I get anything other than a GM vehcile I feel like a traitor -- my father and both grandfathers are/were GM retirees.  My dad draws a GM pension and health care benefits.  But will GM be around in a year to service the vehicle and provide replacement parts?   Same thing applies to Chrysler and, to a lesser extent, Ford.

I'm looking at the Ford Edge, the Honda CRV, Saturn VUE and the Nissan Rogue.  I love the Edge but it's expensive and the MPG isn't great.  I'm going to test drive them all before I make a decision, but #1 on my list is comfort and reliability.

This credit or rebate is interesting but the devil is in the details.  Are they going to put an income restriction on it?  Add MPG demands and screwy rules that exclude all but the tiniest, family-hostile v ehicles?

Sign me stumped.  And needing a new vehicle.

It never ceases to amaze me when politicians can spend my money better that I can.

Sadly, I'm becoming less amazed when I read about the fact that more Republicans are adopting this philosophy.

Seriously, what is it about politicians? Is it the rarified atmosphere in Washington and Lansing?

Someone spike the water supply?

Were they replaced with life-like replicants in the dead of night?

Do they have that way cool brain slug from Ceti Alpha 5 wrapped around their brain making them susceptible to suggestion?

Why are Republicans abandoning their principles so quickly?

The notion that auto use is responsible for our dependency on foreign oil seems strained at this point, given that (a) mileage standards have been in place and increasing for some time, and (b) our American companies have lost market share to foreign manufacturers of (presumably) more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Michigan's unemployment rate is just downright embarrassing, and who can blame her for wanting to help get folks working again.

  Even though she may be compromising on a few fundamentalist conservative principles. Your gonna get alot more bang for the buck with this vs. giving 170 billion to AIG or some bank that is going to take your bail-out tax money, then turn around and charge you tons of interest on credit cards and mortgage interest.

Candice Millers plan will have a real TRICKLE DOWN effect, that will stimulate the many different industries involved in building cars.
Steel, Chemical Plants, tires, glass, and hundreds of parts suppliers, railroads, trucking companies, ect... many more people will benefit, from this.

This is a much better plan than "cap and trade."

I will not vote for any politician who endorses, proposes, arranges for or countenances earmarks or pork.

That includes Mike Rogers who has sent me an email lately about how he brought home the bacon.

Instead of proposing to hand out vouchers, she could've(/should've) stuck to principle and snuck in a tax cut in the Omnibus pork package, kind of like that liar Chris Dodd with the AIG beneficiaries to his campaign.

Northern Macomb, St. Clair County.

It seems Mr. Wagoner decides that a federally set price of $4 a gallon for gas -- achieved through gas taxes -- is a an idea "worthy of consideration."

If Mr. Wagoner feels that Americans should be punished for wanting reliable, comfortable and functional vehicles, I really don't feel I should be subsidizing his beliefs.  The Saturn Vue is no longer on my list for new vehicles.

See, Mr. Wagoner?  One consumer has spoken with her pocketbook.  I can't do anything about the idiots in congress throwing money your way, but I can stop a little from "trickling up."