Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on Toyota Motors recent quality problems.  The House Committee has formerly invited Toyota CEO, Akio Toyoda to testify. Expect lots of grandstanding by our fearless Congresspeople as they try to see who will have the most scintillating soundbite in an election year.  It matters little that the CEO of a Japanese company has little to do with operations at any level.  That fact has already been brushed aside by grandstanding Representative Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., who said "I'm naive enough to believe that a global CEO is a global CEO".  Don't expect fairness, there is blood in the water and the political sharks are scared that it's their own.  The Democratically controlled Congress's approval stands at just 18 percent with the rank and file Democratic approval dropping precipitously.  The Democrats have had a super majority in the Senate [until Scott Brown's recent...(Read Full Post)