Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in a letter to the Ford Motor Company on Thursday that he was “deeply concerned about undue political pressure exerted by the White House reports The Hill.

The House Oversight Committee chairman’s letter comes on the heels of reports earlier this week that the company had pulled an ad critical of the auto bailout following a phone call with administration officials.

Ford responded by denying the ad was removed because of political pressure, saying instead that it had simply been taken out of their ad rotation as scheduled.

“For those asking, the ad ran as part of a planned rotation and continues to run online. It contains the unscripted comments of a Ford owner. We supported emergency government support for our competitors and continue to support the decisions we made,” Ford said in a statement posted to their Facebook page.

Daniel Howes, a conservative columnist for The Detroit News, said that the advertisement was pulled “in response to White House questions.”

In the ad, a man is asked why “buying American” was important to him when choosing a Ford pickup.

“I wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government. I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose or draw,” he responds. “That’s what America is about, taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta’ pick yourself up and go back to work. Ford is that company for me.”

In the letter to Ford, Issa asks for a full explanation of the company’s decision to pull the advertisement and whether any current or former employee of the Obama administration, United Auto Workers, or Democratic Party contacted the company about the ad. Issa also asks whether the company temporarily pulled the ad from its YouTube page.

“Given the close relationship between American automobile manufacturers, workers unions and the U.S. Government in the wake of a series of loans, grants, and stimulus programs, accusations of White House interference in private business matters to support its own political and policy agendas are very serious issues and warrant a full airing of the facts,” Issa wrote.

Ford took to Twitter to respond to Issa, saying that the ad had not been pulled from their YouTube channel.

“The answer is no. The ad remains online. The ad was posted on an agency employee’s account before we had digital rights to it. Once we had them, we posted to ours,” Ford spokesman Scott Monty wrote.

The House House Oversight Committee Chairman writes you a formal letter so you respond on Twitter. Maybe they should receive an order to appear before Mr. Issa’s committee to sort out fact from fiction.

Issa’s office quickly shot back on Twitter:

“While Twitter is fast, you still have until Oct. 12 to answer ALL GOP oversight unanswered questions in writing.”

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart.com, the “star” of the popular ad, Chris McDaniel told me he was “a little bit flustered’ by Ford’s decision. He found out about it during a live radio interview this morning.

“I had no idea.  As soon as I got off the interview, I sent an e-mail to Ford’s VP of Marketing.”  He told Breitbart,  “I put myself out there on the line.  You either stand behind it or you don’t.”

Ford has not yet returned Mr. McDaniel’s e-mail.

A note posted by Ford Motor Co. on Facebook responding to the controversy says:

“(W)e were not coerced into pulling the ad down. The campaign continues to run. We took the ad out of rotation after 4 weeks which is consistent with the typical lifecycle for the campaign.”

But this explanation is inconsistent with the past practice of Ford and their handling of these commercials.  Other “press conference” style ads that they have produced are still available on YouTube, but the one featuring Chris McDaniel has been removed.

Mr. McDaniel says that Ford conducted “two hours of interviews” for the ad and used the famous moment where he took pride in purchasing a vehicle from a company that “didn’t take the money.”  And, in true “Joe the Plumber” fashion, Mr. McDaniel has had to take some heat for his passionate stance.  Many on the left accused the ad of being staged and scripted and challenged whether the sentiments were genuinely his.  To combat the criticism, he took to YouTube himself and offered this response:

Of course the White House claims Howes’s column “false.” Imagine that!

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If green jobs were a fact of life the private sector would be creating them. There would be a viable niche and some entrepreneur would be seeking loans from banks the old fashioned way – with financial projections termed pro-forma’s, a formal, written business plan and a full demonstration on how the business will succeed and grow into the future.

But with the Obama administration donations may very well buy you the money you need if your well connected and proclaim a wish to save the environment on your way to take taxpayer dollars while sidestepping the formal process of loan procurement.

I’ve often heard people say that money in their budget must be spent or they will lose it. My retort was to ask why not just put in back into the cash account? No – we must spend it or lose it. But why? Because it’s in our budget.

So now the Obama administration is up against a deadline and more deals are pending before the $18 billion program funded by the 2009 stimulus expires Friday, September 30th.

If you believe the $535 million Solyndra scandal had chastened the fearless “venture capitalists” of the Obama Administration, think again. The Department of Energy shovelled out $1.1 billion in new loan guarantees to solar projects in Nevada and Arizona Wednesday.

In a statement yesterday, Secretary Steven Chu said:

“If we want to be a player in the global clean energy race, we must continue to invest in innovative technologies that enable commercial-scale deployment of clean, renewable power like solar.”

That statement tucked inside a business plan would never pass the smell test with any honest banker or venture capitalist for that matter.

Chu said the department has completed a $737 million loan guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy for a 110 megawatt solar tower on federal land near Tonopah, NV and a $337 million guarantee for Mesquite Solar 1 to develop a 150 megawatt solar plant near Phoenix, AZ.

The loans were approved under the same program that paid for a $528 million loan to Solyndra Inc., the California solar panel maker that went bankrupt after receiving the money and laid off 1,100 workers.

But wait! Mr. Chu says this will create jobs. Yesterday’s $737 million loan guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy will create “600 construction jobs and 45 permanent jobs,” according to the company. The $337 million loan guarantee to Sempra Energy “will fund up to 300 construction jobs.” That’s $1.1 billion for 45 permanent jobs.

However, the government is blocking the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to carry crude oil from Western Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast would create some 13,000 union jobs and around 118,000 “spin-off” jobs and taxpayers wouldn’t have to risk a dime.

The “green” jobs may end up like the one’s created but not saved at Solyndra. Keystone XL is making money, creating jobs in Canada and the US indirectly and the projections are that Keystone is viable, making profits and is waiting for the US government to approve movement into the US project.

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) chairman of a House energy subcommittee that is investigating Solyndra, said the impending deadline was no reason to complete loans before they are ready.

“Solyndra was the product of a bad bet rushed out the door, and taxpayers are now on the hook,” he said. “We cannot afford DOE rushing out more Solyndras in these final hours.”

A government watchdog group said the Solyndra bankruptcy shows the need for greater oversight of all the department’s loan guarantee programs.

“It is time for a full audit of their activities, their management and their results,” said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, Washington-based advocacy group.

“Candidly, it might be time for the federal government to rethink the whole idea of loan programs,” Schatz added, calling the government’s track record on loan guarantees “lousy.”

It doesn’t stop with bad loans and political donors.

Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve and Pacific Corporate Group is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi, happens to be the number two man at PCG. Analyzing Mr. Pelosi’s qualifications, how he came to PCG and the history of PCG is a mystery in connecting the dots.

It doesn’t stop here. A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democratic campaigns. Questions were being deflected by the White House to the Democratic National Committee.

This could end up being the Watergate for Barack Obama and possibly the whole Democrat party. While funding these “green” job companies with federal tax dollars the Obama Department of Justice and US Attorney for North Dakota hauled seven oil and natural gas companies into federal court for killing 28 migratory birds that were found dead near oil waste lagoons. You may not be surprised to learn that the Administration isn’t prosecuting wind companies for similar offenses. Unemployment is 3-percent in North Dakota and business is booming.

Corruption for green jobs and prosecution for companies producing jobs and creating economy. This is the anti-business, anti-job growth Obama way.

The Green Jobs Black Hole  -  The money goes in and nothing comes out. Except corruption!

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So we need to cancel the next Congressional elections and we need less Democracy to get things done and end the gridlock in Washington. Really?

Speaking to a Cary Rotary Club this week, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (D) suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.

“I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that,” Perdue said. “You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue’s office clarified the remarks: “Come on,” said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. “Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve.”

It’s so easy to try and put the words back in your mouth but why doesn’t Ms. Perdue simply own up to her remarks instead of having staff patch it up?

Perdue’s full statement:

“You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It’s a little bit more contentious now but it’s not impossible to try to do what’s right in this state. You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”

Crossing the aisle has proven hopeless if your Republican and the Democrats, when in full control, have proven then don’t compromise. People like Perdue simply are running scared so the stoop to tactics like calling for a suspension of Democratic elections. Maybe she needs to read the Constitution just to get familiar with our Constitutional Republic.

Then we have Peter Orzag, former Obama budget director, writing in the New Republic with the byline – Why we need less democracy.

To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

Mr. Orzag quotes from a letter by John Taylor to John Adams:

In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

It’s seems Liberals like Orzag and his former boss Barack Obama are trying to help America along in the suicide department.

As usual, Mr. Orzag like all Leftists takes Mr. Taylor out of context in his positions on America as a letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor might reflect. Taylor questioned some of the design of the three branches of government in the young America and Jefferson answered him with expert consultation.

On this view of the import of the term republic, instead of saying, as has been said, “that it may mean anything or nothing,” we may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people, are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient.

My advice would be to let them gather all of their leftist brethren and they could join in on their own circular firing squad. That would move our Democracy along and help it stay intact.

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