Dancing with dealers?

Is the Obama team closing GOP-supporting car dealers?    There has been some chatter on the net about which ones are being closed,  and how many seem to have been given no specific reason or a formula by which status was determined.

I had assumed that more supporters of Obama opponents would be in the car business,  so more of them would be closed.  Then I read a Reuters report that a lawyer for some dealers said closing 25% of the dealerships wasn’t Chrysler’s idea,  but the government’s  (which the White House is denying in carefully parsed language).

Josh Painter at Redstate  has posted  a corral of pertinent links.

But this Washington Examiner piece suggests I may have to rethink the matter.    And now the Wall Street Journal is wondering if the Obama administration is turning Chrysler into a patronage machine.

With Fiat waffling,  and so many of the GM bondholders still resisting their assigned role as doormats,   this column by Michael Barone on gangster government is a  must-read.