BAD REVIEWS FOR TOYOTA’S HANDLING of the recall issue. Of course, it’s very convenient for GM, etc. that Toyota had a problem right about now. As reader Hugh Myers writes: “Has it occurred to anyone that as owner of GM the US Government’s rather enthusiastic pursuit of Toyota regarding supposed product defects involves the government in a conflict of interest?”

UPDATE: LaHood Says Comment on Toyota Was ‘Misstatement’.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Transportation Secretary Emily Litella.