<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee60b033-6e90-447d-99cd-b8cb48b581a4/A87875F0-4AB2-4D44-A53B-3DA585E810B9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/08/2009/09/01/2009/05/04/2009/03/24/green-jobs-myths-debunked-institute-for-energy-research/" href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/08/2009/09/01/2009/05/04/2009/03/24/green-jobs-myths-debunked-institute-for-energy-research/" style="font-size: 11px;">climateprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/08/2009/09/01/2009/05/04/2009/03/24/green-jobs-myths-debunked-institute-for-energy-research/"><P>Now Phil Kerpen, policy director for Americans for Prosperity, has laid out the right-wing strategy for how "the Van Jones affair could be an important turning point in the Obama administration," in a <A href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/06/phil-kerpen-van-jones-resign/" linkindex="4">piece on FOXNews.com</A>.  AFP is "pro-tobacco industry" group that "worked around the U.S. in recent years to defeat" smokefree workplace laws (as <A href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity" linkindex="5">SourceWatch notes</A>) — and is now fighting for the big corporate polluters to block climate and clean energy action.  Brad Johnson at WonkRoom <A href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/09/22/afp-do-nothing/" linkindex="6">has</A> <A href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/07/27/koch-hot-air/" linkindex="7">documented</A> how Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a front group for <A href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/koch-billionaire-ads/" linkindex="8">billionaire polluters</A>, pushing the most inane pro-pollution ads you'll ever see (<A href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/17/americans-for-prosperity-ad-global-warming-denier/" linkindex="9">here</A>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/08/2009/09/01/2009/05/04/2009/03/24/green-jobs-myths-debunked-institute-for-energy-research/"><P>Having taken Van Jones down, the job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/08/2009/09/01/2009/05/04/2009/03/24/green-jobs-myths-debunked-institute-for-energy-research/"><STRONG>The Van Jones affair is, as President Obama likes to say, a "teachable moment," and we need to put not just him but the whole corrupt "green jobs" concept outside the bounds of the political mainstream.</STRONG></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A87875F0-4AB2-4D44-A53B-3DA585E810B9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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