You know, because you need a crack political team in place if you want to extract, say, more than $50 billion from the American people in less than a year:
The company said yesterday that it would not stop its political operations, including its lobbying activity, despite the recent news, according to Roll Call (subscription only). Since 1998, GM has forked over nearly $102 million for lobbying services and in 2008 alone, the auto-giant-no-longer spent $13.8 million.