The Washington Examiner‘s Timothy Carney, author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, spoke at a conclave of right-wingers last year. Carney acknowledges that event, sponsored by the Koch brothers, was so secret that he publicly wrote about it at the time. Now, a blogger at the Center for American Progress is attacking Carney for ignoring how much the Republican party is in the thrall of corporations. 

Carney, in turn, acquits himself and shines a bright light on how companies like Wal-Mart, out of its own corporate interest, worked hand-in-hand with the Center for American Progress to pass Obamacare:

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