Obama’s crony capitalism talked about by Obama crony capitalist:

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 18th at 11:00 PM  | 

(Via Instapundit) What does crony capitalism look like? This is what crony capitalism looks like:

Shelley Berkley (D, NV-01) under ethics investigation for medical crony capitalism.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 10th at 09:30 AM  | 

OK, here’s the background: back in 2011 it came out that in 2008 Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D, NV-01) intervened to prevent the shutdown of a Nevadan kidney transplant program that was killing patients. It’s important at this point to distinguish between proper and improper responses: for example, it is proper to be concerned about what was reported as being “the only transplant center in Nevada” | Read More »

Obama administration gives $433m no-bid contract to Democratic donor.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 12th at 11:17 AM  | 

The last time I checked, didn’t the Left call this sort of thing ‘crony capitalism?’ Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire | Read More »