Video: Two years ago today …
Promises, promises. With Barack Obama’s green-jobs plan blowing up in his face, it’s a difficult time for the President to sell Porkulus II: Economic Boogaloo to a hostile electorate. His track...
View ArticleBob Turner pledges to only use his Twitter account fully clothed
Or, why I love Bob Turner. The more I learn about this guy, the more I like him. He’s green, to be sure: Two days ago, after an interview with Megyn Kelly on “America Live,” he stood up so abruptly he...
View ArticleObama touts Solyndra as having been a “good bet” as new e-mails reveal it,...
“Hindsight is always 20/20.” His defense, essentially, is that some loans are bound to go bust. Banks face the same hard reality, of course, and unlike the Energy Department’s green-loans program,...
View ArticleJoe Biden: Van Jones, who?
“Van Jones … whoever he is.” He worked as Barack Obama’s green energy czar and now he’s linked to the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, praising the movement as one “to save the middle class” and calling...
View ArticleDept of Labor IG: Obama’s green-jobs training program a flop
Time to give back the rest of the money. It’s not as if we haven’t already learned what a failure Barack Obama’s green-tech stimulus has been in creating jobs. Solyndra collapsed with over a...
View ArticleGreen-jobs success: Jobs created … in Finland
Karma. The good news: One recipient of Barack Obama’s green-jobs stimulus subsidies figured out how not to lose $529 million in taxpayer dollars. Even better news: The funds appear to have actually...
View ArticleWaPo: Hey, there were a lot of politics going on green-tech boondoggles
Kaiser roll. Color me shocked, shocked at this revelation from yesterday’s Washington Post. Politically-connected investors influencing government subsidies? Inconceivable! Meant to create jobs and...
View ArticleVideo: Taxpayers subsidize wind-farm generation … and non-generation
Snow job. Taxpayers have put out billions in subsidies over the last three years for Barack Obama’s green-energy stimulus program, which has produced such success stories as Solyndra, Beacon Power,...
View ArticleVideo: Jay Carney tries, fails to explain the difference between Bain Capital...
Nuance. Via Jim Treacher, 51 agonizing seconds of Carney trying to explain on the fly why Solyndra going bust is a normal win-some-lose-some result when you’re investing in new ventures whereas Bain’s...
View ArticleVideo: Green-tech stimulus recipient went broke … a second time
Genesis of failure. This isn’t a recent case, nor the worst we’ve seen from the Obama administration’s green-tech stimulus bubble. However, it may be one of the most instructive about how governments...
View ArticleThe Navy’s “Great Green Fleet” sets sail
See, it’s green, because it costs so much money. Okay, just to establish the lay of the land here: Ever since last summer’s embarrassment of a budget deal, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned...
View ArticleVideos: Romney, RNC attack crony capitalism in Obama stimulus programs
“I sent an email to my partners that said Matt Rogers is about to get treated like a hooker dropped into a prison exercise yard.” By golly, I think we found the Analogy of the Year. BuzzFeed’s...
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