Congress should reign in the Export-Import Bank

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 24th at 12:05 PM  | 

Another sign of the blatant cronyism involving the Export-Import Bank emerged this week.

First Solar, a solar panel manufacturer, is by most standards a failing company. It suffered a net loss of $39 million in 2011, and an even greater loss of nearly $100 million in 2012. The company threw away $215 million at one point on solar panels that ended up failing at high temperatures. (A solar panel that can’t withstand heat?)

But First Solar has political connections within the Obama Administration. And it also has a trump card: First Solar is a member of the “Business Alliance,” a secret clique of corporate donors to the Center for American Progress (CAP). CAP, in turn, lobbied Capitol Hill for First Solar, without disclosing the financial support it receives from the flailing solar energy company:

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Fake Filibuster Outrage From Left

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  March 12th at 06:10 PM  | 

The left is fear-mongering on the issue of the filibuster.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed cloture on 17 nominees today and the left was quick to parrot the Reid talking points claiming Republican “obstruction” of these nominees.  The fact of the matter is that there is no filibuster and Reid is merely setting the table so he can make hysterical arguments about Republican obstructionism. | Read More »

Andy Stern. Scab for the Chinese.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 1st at 11:00 AM  | 

Before you ask: I was raised in a union household.  I know precisely what that word means, and I am using it precisely as my late father the local union president would have used it if he had lived to read this Wall Street Journal article by former SEIU boss Andy Stern.  Let me summarize said article: I, Andy Stern, am a cheap date* who | Read More »

Crickets Chirp As White House Spams & Sends Out Union Press Releases

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 12th at 09:00 AM  | 

Last week, many Americans watched President Obama stand in front of of his teleprompters and Congress and sell—no, demand—a still unwritten bill dubbed the American Jobs Act. While the President certainly gives an entertaining teleprompted speech, his demands were reminiscent of a third-world barter between a goat herder and a villager: In exchange for two goats (temporary tax cuts), you can give your daughter and her dowry (nearly | Read More »

Exacerbating the ‘Perception Problem’: Center for American Progress Chronicles the American Right’s Decade of Baseless Aggression Against Islam

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 26th at 04:00 PM  | 

The far-left Center for American Progress (CAP) today released a report on the “Islamophobia network” it claims is responsible for the “genesis of anti-Muslim propaganda” in America, which coincidentally began, the report claims, ten years ago (“[S]even foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America,” writes Faiz Shakir at the CAP’s ThinkProgress blog). It’s both typically ironic and | Read More »

This Needs To Be Edited Into A TV Ad

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 6th at 12:24 PM  | 

The Charles Koch Foundation has come up with a web ad on economic freedom. It is an important message. I cannot stress enough that you need to watch this. It is only 2 minutes. But more importantly, the Koch Foundation needs to turn this into a 1 minute television advertisement. It’ll require some work to do, but this is a message that needs to get | Read More »

George Soros Gives Little Lee Fang His Comeuppance

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 30th at 04:33 PM  | 

One of the most genuinely stupid and embarrassing things to ever appear at Think Progress — and that’s saying something — was a recent supposed takedown of the evil Koch Brothers by their supposedly nemesis, Little Lee Fang the ankle biting blogger. Little Lee Fang tried to make a mountain out of something sinister called contango, a concept about which he clearly knew nothing and | Read More »

Lee Fang: Math is Hard

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 24th at 11:30 PM  | 

Lee Fang’s job title at the Center for American Progress is “Researcher”. Heh. Honestly, I’d never heard of this guy until about a month ago, when he made the mistake of thinking he knew something about oil trading, accusing the Koch Brothers of rigging the markets for easy gains. His evidence was, you know, contango. Koch Brothers. Today Fang attacked the freshman Republican from Arizona’s | Read More »

Lee Fang and Center For American Progress Use Foreign Money to Influence American Elections

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 18th at 04:00 AM  | 

Remember in 2010, Barack Obama, the Center for American Progress (“CAP”), and little Lee Fang over at CAP, were in high dudgeons about the United States Chamber of Commerce and “foreign money.” The irony here is that Lee Fang and CAP are largely funded by a convicted criminal named George Soros whose conviction for insider traded was upheld way back in 2006 in France. But | Read More »

Are Lee Fang and Think Progress Intellectually Dishonest or Stupid?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 20th at 10:35 PM  | 

It is no secret that Think Progress and its amateur muckraker Lee Fang are out to get Koch Industries by hook or by crook. But their latest bit of hackery begs the question of whether they are intellectually dishonest or just stupid. Power Line has a bit on it and Mark Tapscott does too. In short, the communist rag The Nation uncovered a flier sent | Read More »

Dan Eggen of the Washington Post Engages in Journalistic Incest With Left Wing Interest Groups

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 10:00 AM  | 

Power Line’s John Hinderaker has done the heavy lifting on a case of journalistic incest by Dan Eggen at the Washington Post. The Obama mouthpiece Center for American Progress did a hit job on Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) who happens to represent that part of Kansas in which Koch Industries is located. The Center for American Progress had one of its employees run against Pompeo | Read More »

So Called Constitutional Option Is A Trick

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  January 5th at 04:00 PM  | 

The Senate commenced debate on a filibuster reform today.  Be aware that liberals in the Senate are using strong arm tactics to seize power.  They are using something called the “Constitutional Option” and you need to understand that this is a rhetorical and procedural trick.  There is nothing unconstitutional about the filibuster and the “Constitutional Option” is a means to ignore the explicit rules of the | Read More »

Delegitimizing The Victories: The Politics of the Angry White Male

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 1st at 05:00 AM  | 

“It will be easier for the Democrats to believe in a grand conspiracy that stole the election, than to accept rejection by the American people.” Conservatives will be fighting on two fronts after today. First, Establishment Republicans will be peddling stories, as they have in the past week, that conservative gains in the Senate were really not significant compared to the Establishment pickups. We’ll deal | Read More »

Real Change: Faith in Government Collapses Under Obama

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 29th at 03:30 PM  | 

Cross-posted to Liberty Central President Obama and the current Congressional leadership were swept into office on a wave of dissatisfaction with George Bush and a Republican Congress. Polls showed that Americans were open to the idea of greater government intervention as a way to address serious problems. President Obama promised that he would expand the role of government to ‘fix’ health care, Wall Street, the | Read More »

Today in Washington – July 27, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 27th at 11:30 AM  | 

President Obama wants to reduce criticism of his unpopular government.  It is to be expected, because the American people have little confidence in the Obama Administration and the federal government.  Even left wing Think Tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), has released data that “more than a quarter of the public says they have little or no confidence in government.”  This report is evidence that, even the left | Read More »