MICKEY KAUS: Why shouldn’t the bailout deal include an explicit reopening of labor contracts? “If the new ‘auto czar’ can order the companies to restructure, tell them to build smaller cars and veto any expenditure over $25 million, shouldn’t he or she be able to require the UAW to give up the precious work rules that have rendered the domestically-owned industry inflexible and inefficient for decades? . . . If the taxpayers are going to foot the bill, then the goal has to be a successful industry in the long run–not a Congressional fix designed to protect the UAW from what it would face in a normal bankruptcy. That means rewritten contracts. If the UAW members didn’t want that, they shouldn’t have let their firms go broke.”