[rmyers]

This has to be a joke right? How the hell can the white house dictate to a private company who is going to run it? Do you mean they said it would be a condition on more bailout money? If this is true it ought to scare the hell out of every one of us! Considering the White House is being run by people that have never run so much as a lemonade stand...if this is happening....the automakers won't be here long.

Futhermore, the White House is not the only part of government that makes the rules. They did not make the decision alone to bail out GM. It was a Congressional decision. It seems to me, it would take a congressional decision representing the tax payers to force GM to do anything.