Jim Moran, D-Va., Made 90 Trades One Day After Private Congressional Economics Meeting

Insider Trading by Congressmen ... Moving on up, what Comgressmen do on your dime.

Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to ‘Connected’ Firm

The danger of giving people with low character lots of money to spread around among friends. In the end you find out what trust means.

Show me where in the Constitution it says the President making loans to your big donor buddies is good for America?

And then it goes bust and you just saying "risky business". Did you ever think their is no viable commercial business in solar cell anything? Spain got 20% unemployment for their investments in non-viable green energy. We are proving Spain right about their wasteful boondoggle. Solar energy coasts from 10x to 20x coal generated electricity.

By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , and RONNIE GREENE

ABC NEWS and iWATCH NEWS

Sept. 13, 2011

Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department’s deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

The company’s solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president’s green energy plan — billed as a way to jump start a promising new industry. And internal emails uncovered by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee that were shared exclusively with ABC News show the Obama administration was keenly monitoring the progress of the loan, even as analysts were voicing serious concerns about the risk involved. “This deal is NOT ready for prime time,” one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.

“If you guys think this is a bad idea, I need to unwind the W[est] W[ing] QUICKLY,” wrote Ronald A. Klain, who was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, in another email sent March 7, 2009. The “West Wing” is the portion of the White House complex that holds the offices of the president and his top staffers. Klain declined comment to ABC News.
Beginning in March, ABC News, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News, was first to report on simmering questions about the role political influence may have played in Solyndra’s selection as the Obama administration’s first loan guarantee recipient. Federal auditors had flagged the loan, saying some applicants had benefitted from special treatment.

Union Greed: Obammunism

Joe Klein:

its ironic that union protesters chant “freedom, democracy, union” while preventing a vote

From John Fund's WSJ article Saturday:

“Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues, gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits,”

Public sector Democrat assisted, union corruption at it's finest.

You know you’ve lost the indefensible fight when a liberal like Joe Klein doesn’t back you any more:

Revolutions everywhere–in the middle east, in the middle west. But there is a difference: in the middle east, the protesters are marching for democracy; in the middle west, they’re protesting against it. I mean, Isn’t it, well, a bit ironic that the protesters in Madison, blocking the state senate chamber, are chanting “Freedom, Democracy, Union” while trying to prevent a vote?

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An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that.

Throughout the whole article Klein makes the argument that these Unions have become the opposite of Democracy. Thugocracy -- Klein makes another great point here:

But we’ve had far too many state legislatures, of both parties, that have been cowed by the political power of the unions and enacted contracts that force state and city governments to be run for the benefit of their employees, rather than for their citizens. This situation is most egregious in far too many school districts across the nation.

Video: Nebraska Governor Tells Dem Senator Nelson to Give Back His Bribe to Harry Reid

Dems New Culture Of Corruption

Jonah Goldberg has this must read article:

SOME days you have to ask yourself, "My God, what if these people were Republicans?"

Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they called the Republican "culture of corruption." To be fair, the GOP did have its legitimate embarrassments. California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were fair game. So was Rep. Mark Foley, the twisted Florida lawmaker who allegedly wanted male congressional pages cleaned, perfumed and brought to his tent, as it were.

Of course, it wasn't as if Democrats were without sin. Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on fraud, bribery and corruption charges in 2007, after an investigation unearthed, among other things, $90,000 in his freezer. Then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted in a prostitution scandal.

But that's all yesterday's news. In the here and now, President Obama, who vowed he'd provide a transparent administration staffed with disinterested public servants, appointed an admitted tax cheat to run the Treasury Department -- and he's hardly the only one.

Has the new federal government become the mob from Chicago? Yes, I think they have.