Under the new guidelines for decorum in the U.S. House, Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., has advised members that their free speech should exclude terms like "liar" and "hypocrite" in referring to statements by President Barack Obama.

So I'll refrain from using those words about the Obama administration's latest auto fuel standards.

Obama repeated at the GM Lordstown, Ohio, plant this week that he doesn't want to "manage the auto companies." Yet, this is exactly what his administration is doing in its effort to force Americans to drive the cars that he and his supporters want built.

Even while the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the new rules will increase auto-related deaths at a net societal cost of $15 billion by pushing...