Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally arrives on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, in a new Ford Fusion Hybrid, (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) by Frank James It was kind of a cheap shot but still an effective moment that made the point the lawmaker was seeking. Rep. Brad ...

Source: [b]AP via CNN[/b] DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. may sell its fleet of five corporate jets after top executives of the three Detroit automakers were harshly criticized by members of Congress this week for their travel expenses. Read more: ...

I heart Brian Ross. The ABC investigative reporter is so old school. Once again he brought his A-game by taking the Big Three CEO's to task after they flew into Washington on their ultra-expensive private jets only to beg Congress for for a handout to avoid bankruptcy. Are these guys for ...

Resplendent in their private jets, Detroit’s auto executives have been pleading to Congress for a piece of the bailout mania.?? Having seen Wall Street’s success in extracting billions of dollars from Washington to limit the economic damage from the collapse of the housing and ...

Day By Day by Chris Muir Zed, you are defintiely a PIG - sort of like the Big 3 automaker executives who had the audacity to fly to Washington aboard their private jets while requesting a multi-billion dollar bailout from Congress. Don’t think they will receive the $$$. Previous: ...

Yesterday, as word got around about the CEOs of the Big 2.5 automakers hopping on their private jets to go begging before Congress, I found myself thinking about Ronald Reagan,...

It turns out they flew private jets to travel to Washington to plead to Congress for (bailout) funds. Not smart. No matter what their arguments, this is the kind of symbolism that will hurt their case. Cartoon by John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri

Jeez... All three CEOs - Rick Wagoner of GM, Alan Mulally of Ford, and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler - exercised their perks Tuesday by flying in corporate jets to DC. Wagoner flew in GM’s $36 million luxury aircraft to tell members of Congress that the company is burning through cash, ...

The CEOs of the Big 3 automakers flew private jets to DC to beg Congress for bailout money. If it's all about appearances, these three have failed. Beggars don't arrive in horse-drawn carriages.

A stockbroker named Fred Schwed wrote a book in 1955 called "Where Are The Customer's Yachts?", which leads me to the tale this morning of the Big Three auto execs flying into Washington on their private jets to plead their case of poverty to the U.S. Congress. Democrats and the new Obama ...