GM down the toilet

GM Posts Loss of $30.9B for 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022600849.html

General Motors is, supposedly, run by intelligent conservative businessmen.
Are these the same sort of businessman that the Repubbys want to run the government? Run the government like a business? Like General Motors? Like GM which is on the edge of total failure?

GIVE
ME
A
BREAK