Hancock, May 29:

On Thursday, GM disclosed that the government would own 72.5 percent of the company immediately after the bankruptcy process ends. This confirms the corollary of the famous aphorism made by Charlie Wilson, GM's boss in the 1950s: What's bad for GM is now really bad for America.

Robert Reich, June 1:

Wilson’s edict, too, has been turned upside down: in many ways, what has been bad for GM has been bad for much of America.

(I'm not really accusing him of plagiarism, a charge that gets thrown around too freely. I doubt he read my piece, and in any event it's sort of an obvious thing to say.)