This, essentially, is a meeting story and so covers what was said by whom about the bailout of the U.S. auto industry. What was said at this meeting mattered less than how the head automakers got to the meeting--in luxury private jets. Quite possibly, this will help sink the bailout of an industry that many Americans feel robbed them blind over the past several decades, producing inferior gas-guzzling models with little reliability.

The headline and Sherman's question focused on the trivial rather than the core questions of what (if anything) is needed to preserve 7 million? good jobs inside the United States. There was not analysis presented of the value of private jets transporting high paid executives directly without limitations of commercial schedules, hub routes, security screenings, and functioning during flights. Bad congressman. Bad journalism.