Crony Capitalism
REP. PAUL RYAN:: After Roanoke – AmericanSpectator
By MB Snow at July 25, 2012 | 12:55 am
Rep. Paul Ryan -- Promoting entrepreneurship instead of perpetuating crony capitalism. President Obama recently made a stunning remark about owners and workers under free enterprise. He said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Who? Ultimately, the government. Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas ... Go To Article
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CARNEY:: New solar failure got subsidies from Dems and GOP | WashEx
By MB Snow at July 23, 2012 | 12:40 am
Another politically connected subsidy-suckling solar company has hit the financial rocks, and once again, revolving-door lobbyists and Obama bundlers are implicated. But this time the GOP is on the hook, too. Amonix announced last week it was closing down its 214,000-square-foot Las Vegas factory that makes solar panels. The news generated schadenfreude among ... Go To Article
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MICHELLE MALKIN:: Obama’s Fatcats – NRO
By MB Snow at July 18, 2012 | 1:13 pm
By Michelle Malkin -- Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and his hatchet people are still yammering about GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney’s overseas investments. It’s time for the Romney campaign to educate voters about all the shady financial institutions embraced by Democrats right here on American soil. Republicans can’t make the fatcat-narrative ... Go To Article
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CRONYISM Built That | Washington Free Beacon
By MB Snow at July 18, 2012 | 10:19 am
BY: Andrew Stiles - July 18, 2012 5:00 am President Obama’s record of rewarding political donors with taxpayer dollars and plum administration posts is facing a new round of scrutiny thanks to GOP challenger Mitt Romney’s effort to make it a central issue of the campaign. “[President Obama] thinks it’s his right to give taxpayer money to those who have ... Go To Article
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OBAMA DONORS:: Democratic Domain | Washington Free Beacon
By MB Snow at July 17, 2012 | 10:18 am
BY: Andrew Stiles -- Local officials in San Bernardino County, Calif., met last week to consider a controversial proposal to use eminent domain powers to seize and refinance underwater mortgages. The plan, which is being championed by wealthy investors with deep ties to the Democratic Party, has drawn criticism from opponents who see it as an egregious violation of ... Go To Article
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ARTHUR BROOKS: America Already Is Europe – WSJ
By MB Snow at July 9, 2012 | 1:00 am
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, July 8, 2012 -- In spending, debt and progressivity of taxes, the U.S. is as much a social-welfare state as Spain. I'm often asked if I think America is trending toward becoming a European-style social democracy. My answer is: "No, because we already are a European-style social democracy." From the progressivity of our tax code, to the ... Go To Article
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CRONY CAPITALISM: Complaints in Congress Helped Prompt VIP Loans, Report Says – WSJ
By MB Snow at July 5, 2012 | 1:18 pm
By JOHN R. EMSHWILLER, POLITICS July 4, 2012, A controversial program at Countrywide Financial Corp., offering loans to "VIPs" on favorable terms, spread to Congress in part because congressional staffers complained about their Countrywide mortgages to the company's lobbyist, according to a new report by a House committee. The VIP program—part of the scandal at ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: Will President Obama suffer from a Bain backlash? [VIDEO LINK] – WashEx
By MB Snow at May 27, 2012 | 12:44 pm
![BARONE:: Will President Obama suffer from a Bain backlash? [VIDEO LINK] – WashEx](http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/wp-content/themes/NewsFlash/thumb.php?src=http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Political-Surrogates_Rend-e1338147803964.jpg&w=190& h=150& zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
The ham-handed Barack Obama campaign attack ads on Mitt Romney's former firm Bain Capital have drawn a lot of ire from other Democrats. And not just because they were sloppily fact-checked (the ads hit Romney for layoffs long after he left Bain) and because a leading Obama money bundler is a Bain executive himself. Chiming in with various degrees of disapproval were ... Go To Article
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KIMBERLEY STRASSEL:: Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 25, 2012 | 12:55 am
President Obama is no fan of Mitt Romney-style "vulture" capitalism. So what's his alternative? All those Republicans grousing about the president's attacks on private equity might instead be seizing on this beautiful point of contrast. Mr. Obama, after all, is no mere mortal president. Even as he's been busy with the day job, he's found time to moonlight as ... Go To Article
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CONGRESS:: Cronies ’R’ Us | WeeklyStandard
By MB Snow at May 24, 2012 | 1:00 pm
BY ANDREW FERGUSON -- We were struck last week by a pair of instances of Republicans doing what Republicans do—one encouraging, one not so much. On the encouraging side, we had Sen. Tom Coburn, who never fails to lift a faltering conservative heart. He gave an interview to a blogger for the Washington Post, though we won’t hold that against him. In it he said many ... Go To Article
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