automakers highen than imports in quality makes for the first time in history. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. the hits keep oncoming for blum blumenthal and mark kirk. the headline reads blumeenthal comments on military service. he s quoted saying i did realize reservists could be called up, and that the was something that i wanted to do. but military experts say there was no expectation that reserve units would be activated at the time mr. blumenthal enlisted. and the teaching career is