It has been days now (at least two of them) since General Motors has issued a recall on any of its cars. But then, the law of diminishing returns applies here. After the first 15 million, there aren’t that many GM vehicles left out there for recalling.

It is curious how the company could have gone through its recent bailout by the government without these problems coming to the attention of the people who made the deal. They were spending taxpayer money, after all, to buy a problematic asset. So were they not obliged to look under the hood and kick the tires?