The Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, said three words off the cuff yesterday in a congressional hearing that seem to have gotten him in trouble. He simply said "stop driving it", it being potentially defective Toyota cars.
I go downstairs in my dorm here on the campus of Franklin & Marshall College to peruse the New York Times and the headline on the Business Section is the flak that the Secretary has been getting for his comments and the publicity circus the White House is going through to "clean up his mess". There is a slight problem with this though...HE IS DEAD RIGHT!!!
What the hell is wrong with everybody, common sense says if you're not sure you're car is working, you shouldn't drive it. Everyone is thinking it, but heaven forbid a political figure says it...because somehow that's wrong.
The hoops that the Secretary and the White House are jumping through are completely unnecessary and just flat out ridiculous...all because he reached into his mind and said the first instinctive reaction to the prospect of driving a potentially defective car. To him I say, keep speaking off the cuff, maybe the rest of us can learn something from his honesty.
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