For the Republicans reading who are desperately trying to find new memes after having banished all the thinkers from your party to the hinterlands well north of Alaska, let me give you a little help.

The question I hear from the “conservative” hoi polloi is “Who will they bailout nexxxxxt?” That’s the wrong question. The right question is “Who won’t they bailout next?” The answer is, they won’t bailout the overwhelming majority of Americans threatened with job loss, they will only provide some unemployment assistance and tax relief for retraining/education costs. Why are 250K autoworkers so important even though the majority of them, if not the great majority, would remain employed during a BK workout? Because they publicly gave so much money and support to the Dems. That’s the danger of this sort of socialism, that unsustainable businesses are maintained with taxpayer funds purely for political purposes (ethanol also comes to mind.)