CHEVY CRUZE NOT LOOKING SO GOOD: “The new Consumer Reports reliability ratings are out, and the much-hyped Chevy Cruze rates … “significantly below average,” according to the Detroit Freep. Yikes. . . . It’s pretty hard to imagine worse news for Obama’s ‘New GM,’ short of a Jaguar-style safety scandal. . . . Obama should have been more skeptical about “New GM’s” ability to turn itself around with its same old workforce and same old union, just as he should have been skeptical of the ability of the Departments of Energy and Labor to produce ‘green jobs.’ Maybe he was skeptical about GM but saw no alternative. There’s no similar excuse for the MSM joining in the cheerleading.”

Bright side: “The controversial Chevy Volt hybrid, which isn’t selling, seems to be quite reliable.”