Bulk of ‘Rabbis for Obama’ moonlight as JStreet activists
PALIN endorses Gosar for Congress in Arizona, Yoho in Florida
MALKIN: ‘Clean energy’ is Obama-speak for crony government
Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that the Obama administration gives its Chicago corporate pals special access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New York Times published an A1 story titled “Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility.”
Everyone, put on your shocked faces!
“With energy an increasingly pivotal issue for the Obama White House,” the Times intoned, “a review of Exelon’s relationship with the administration shows how familiarity has helped foster access at the upper reaches of government and how, in some cases, the outcome has been favorable for Exelon.”
You mean Hope and Change was all smoke and mirrors? Well, knock me over with a feather and call me Grandpa Daley!
White House press flack Jay Carney played dumb when asked about the report, which detailed “an unusually large number of meetings with top administration officials at key moments in the consideration of environmental regulations that have been drafted in a way that hurt Exelon’s competitors.”
“I’m not sure what the issue is, frankly,” Carney told the Beltway press corps. Carney, a former Time magazine journalist who pointedly reminded his former media colleagues that he “was a reporter,” apparently forgot all the connect-the-dots training he got at his once-hallowed publication.
The issue, dear Carney, is favor-trading and access-peddling. Government for the cronies, by the cronies and of the cronies. The Times spelled it out: “I would like to get some treatment in Washington like that,” Ken Anderson, general manager at Tri-State G and T, a Colorado-based power supplier that has been at odds with Exelon over environmental regulations, told the paper. “But Exelon seems to get deference that I can’t get.”
As I noted back in January in my column on Obama’s green robber barons, my scouring of White House visitor logs showed nine visits from Illinois-based Exelon’s CEO John Rowe, who met with the president and former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. The clean energy company’s deep ties had already been illuminated by several other business publications, including Forbes and Crain’s.
Frank M. Clark, the veteran lobbyist who runs Exelon’s Commonwealth Edison, the largest electric utility in Illinois, is a top Obama adviser and fundraiser dating back to the former community organizer’s Illinois State Senate days. Longtime Obama campaign guru David Axelrod worked as a consultant to Exelon. And Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel helped create Exelon — where he raked in more than $16 million over two years.
Campaign refuses to drop radical from ‘Rabbis for Obama’
TOP LABOR BOSSES pull down big salaries – up to $500,000
AFSCME President GERALD McENTEE
Not exactly the 99%: Top union leaders’ salaries
Sean Higgins
WashingtonExaminer
College GOP aims to reach 6M voters, recruit 50,000 members
Dave Tombers
WorldNetDaily
Young voters under 30 turned out in large numbers in 2008 for Barack Obama, but a new survey shows the economy under Obama’s watch has hit them hard.
A Generation Opportunity poll indicates 84 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 are planning a major life change because of the economy, including delaying marriage and a home purchase.
Twenty-six percent said they changed their living situation by taking in roommates or moving back home, 40 percent skipped a vacation and more than half have had to adjust their entertainment budget, the GO report said.
The poll also showed that while 51 percent of that age group voted in 2008, 76 percent plan to vote this fall.
So into that already volatile mix comes an announcement from the College Republican National Committee of the largest youth mobilization effort in the group’s 120-year history, a plan dubbed “Operation Red November.”
The grassroots movement of college Republicans nationwide aims to “recruit and mobilize college students to take back our future by voting and volunteering for Republican candidates in local and state level elections in 2012.”
The group is aiming for more than 6 million live voter contacts, 100,000 volunteer hours and 50,000 new College Republicans.
“The CRNC’s quarter million members provide the boots on the ground for the Republican Party,” CRNC Chairman Alex Schriver said.
Anderson Cooper KOs Wasserman Schultz! She LIES on Mitt!
Israeli hooligans reacting to Palestinian culture of hatred
SHEER CHUTZPAH! Obama accuses Romney of links to radicals
It’s like Bill Clinton accusing Todd Akin of being insensitive to women.
KHALIDI and OBAMA
