Repukes trying to turn Solyndra into a green Enron. Oh joy.

[KamaAina]

And Silicon Valley's daily cat box liner swallows it hook, line and sinker.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18892348

The congressional probe into Solyndra's $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy exploded into public view Wednesday morning, as House Republicans released emails that show White House aides pressured budget officials to finalize a decision on Solyndra's loan because they were eager to have Vice President Joe Biden announce the loan at Solyndra's 2009 groundbreaking ceremony in Fremont.

But the select emails, which were leaked to the Washington Post in advance of the hearing, contained no evidence that George Kaiser, a prominent Obama fundraiser, had any direct influence or involvement in the Solyndra loan. Many conservative critics have focused on Kaiser because Argonaut Venture Capital, the investment arm of the Tulsa, Okla.-based George Kaiser Family Foundation, is Solyndra's largest private investor and is first in line to be paid during the company's bankruptcy proceedings. There has been widespread speculation that Solyndra's loan was either approved or expedited at the request of Kaiser and other political donors to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

The bitter bipartisan divide on Capitol Hill was clear in the four-hour hearing. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee hammered Solyndra as "crony capitalism run amok," while Democrats argued that the United States was losing the cleantech race to China and said Republicans were trying to discredit clean energy in the same way they have dismissed the scientific evidence of climate change.

Under questioning from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, both Jonathan Silver, director of the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, and Jeffrey Zients, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, testified that they have never met or spoken with Kaiser.

This is pretty much what they ponmised us when they swarmed in to infest Capitol Hill: using the "power of oversight" to get anyone and everyone they dislike into the dock for a grilling hearing. :eyes:

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Fucking Bushes have a knack for leaving messes for their Democratic successors

With Poopy Bush, it was setting-up Bill Clinton for the Somalia debacle. Dim Son had this fiasco waiting in the wings, ready to cause major suckage for the Obama administration.

[GSLevel9]

2. this will be RED MEAT next year...

Shrub administration says NO to Solyndra and Obama says YES. 1/2 BILLION taxpayer dollars WASTED. And the whole Solyndra's investors and executives and their political donations to Dems...

Sometimes shit really DOES stink.

[MADem]

3. When I hear "Solyndra" and "green" I think SOYLENT GREEN.

And we all know what THAT is......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

[geek_sabre]

4. Perhaps you could explain how this doesn't look bad for the President?

[KamaAina]

5. They're making a mountain out of a molehill

trying to make it look much worse than it actually is, the better to make grist for the Faux Noise mill. :eyes:

"But the select emails, which were leaked to the Washington Post in advance of the hearing, contained no evidence that George Kaiser, a prominent Obama fundraiser, had any direct influence or involvement in the Solyndra loan....

Under questioning from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, both Jonathan Silver, director of the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, and Jeffrey Zients, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, testified that they have never met or spoken with Kaiser."