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'And Tell Me, Mr. CEO, Did You Buckle Your Seat Belt?'
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"Yes, we made buses," the GM chief said.
"Any thoughts about getting back into that line of work?" Dodd proposed.
Other senators played corporate dealmakers and tried to order up a merger.
"You want to hang around long enough so that you can date somebody and hopefully get married soon before you run out of money," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) taunted Chrysler's Nardelli. "Look, there's not a human being alive in the automobile world that thinks that Chrysler is doing anything other than finding somebody to marry and that this cash is here long enough for you to do that."
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) went further, informing the executives that "a merger between General Motors and Chrysler is a good idea. It's not a shotgun wedding. . . . It's a marriage that makes sense."
Corker, returning for more, told Nardelli "you're going to be going to spas and getting facials and hopefully finding someone to marry you, okay?"
Finally, Nardelli could take no more. "I've been married 38 years," he said.
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