Actually, people were all sorts of pissed off over Citibank and the other lending institutions and brokerage houses after stuff like the stadium deal and the expensive corporate retreats were discovered.

Case in point: Fox News, which published the article about the Chrysler ad, linked to above, also published a similar article today about "a former top executive at Merrill Lynch who received a $25 million golden parachute after just three months of work [and] purchased a $37 million Park Avenue palace."

If the "backlash" seems bigger over the car companies it's because a lot of people said they didn't want to see this shit happen again after what the banks did and, yet, Pelosi, Reid and Bush went ahead and ignored the American people to give the car companies a bailout.