GM Bankruptcy Declared ‘Anticlimactic,’ Titillating  Photo:
Getty Images  This morning, GM handed over its bankruptcy filing
to a clerk at the federal court in lower Manhattan. The Times
called the event anticlimactic, by which they either mean
because it's been an awfully long time coming or they were
disappointed that Rick Wagoner didn't materialize in the
courtroom, yell "I object!" and then throw his body against a
soon-to-be-discontinued Saturn. (We know we are.) But P.J.
O'Rourke, writing in the Journal, had the opposite reaction to
the humbling of the onetime icon of American business: "The
phrase 'bankrupt General Motors' ... leaves Americans my age in
economic shock," he wrote in the Journal yesterday. "The words
are as melodramatic as 'Mom’s nude photos.'" Obama is expected
to address the fallout and expound on the greater meaning of the
bankruptcy later today.  G.M. Seeks Bankruptcy and a New Start
[NYT] The End of the Affair [WSJ]