Monday, September 19, 2011

Solyndra

Solyndra is the latest scandle like object Freepers are excited about - it's a solar-panel company that received almost half a billion in stimulus money and declared bankruptcy quite shortly thereafter. The Daily Show quite rightly mocked it as evidence of some pretty bad decision making.

Freepers assume corruption, of course. Though they do seem uncommonly restrained about it. Maybe it's the primary sniping sapping their attention, or maybe they're still excited about gunwalker. But they do provide some of their unique analysis.

Piranha thinks this one is gonna stick!

In my opinion this is going to take Obama down. Not because it is worse
than smuggling guns across the border to Mexico, but because the left will grab
onto it as an excuse to abandon Obama.
They are not wedded to the man, they are wedded to the idea of progressivism or socialism or communism. Just as the Soviet apologists used to say that communism never failed in the USSR because it was never tried, since Stalin took things ino another direction, the American left has to jettison Obama so they can say that true progressivism never was tried in the US. The easiest way to do that is to assail him for buddying up with billionaires and giving financial benefits to his supporters, since that is straight-up corruption by anyone’s definition.

VRW Conspirator notes black folks are gonna be a problem!


The left is extremely utilitarian, like the devil. If they could jettison the big O and increase their odds of moving their agenda, then Obama will be
toast, today.


But the left is, indeed, wedded to Obam and this divorce will be ugly. I bet a donut that more that half the black voters will stay home on election day if Obama leaves office under pressure.


cc2k knows Obama owns the FBI and press, so this is a non-starter:

the Party Propaganda Ministry would never have published any article or headline with the name "Solyndra" in it without the approval from The Won and his minions.
The administration is confident that the FBI has locked up or destroyed any evidence tying this administration to any scandal with Solyndra.
The media is covering this because Issa and Upton will not find anything when they investigate. This is a diversion from Fast and Furious and other scandals.
I hope the FBI missed something, or that something will come out later, but I'm not confident that will happen.
The fact that the Washington Post and the LA Times have had articles about Solyndra is an indication of their confidence that any evidence of wrongdoing has been destroyed or hidden.

RitaOK cannot let old villains die:

Hillary does Revenge Served Cold better than anybody. She will let the Dems
sink in their own betrayals. She may even smirk. :)

14 comments:

  1. Ozi's words:

    "Solyndra is the latest scandle like object."

    This was not "scandal-like" it is a full blown scandal. You libs would have screamed, cried, nashed your teeth and all had your periods together if George Bush had done something like this.

    Your very selective reporting in an attempt to polish Obama (remember however, can't polish a turd) is very laughable. Anybody with half a brain can see the problem except you guys. What was it again that you all liked to say during Bush's tenure? Oh yes "connect the dots" Why don't you try and connect the dots?? Here let me help....

    "The George Kaiser Family Foundation controls 35.7 percent of Solyndra. George Kaiser personally bundled between $50,000-$100,000 in campaign contributions for Obama in 2008. Notoriously porous White House logs show Kaiser visited the White House (at least) four times.

    On February 23, the government restructured its agreement with Solyndra to entice investors to sink another $75 million into the failing firm. The restructuring agreement provides that, in case of bankruptcy, those investors get to recoup their funds before taxpayers are repaid. Congressman say this is a clear violation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which states taxpayer dollars must “not [be] subordinate to other financing.”

    People who have their lips attached to Obama's ass can only see Reggie Love's penis tracks, everyone else can clearly see the big picture and "connect the dots"....

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  2. Nice hypothetical victimhood. At least point to Blackwater of Haliburton or something.

    I'm not saying Solyndra isn't a big deal, just that it points to incompetence rather than corruption.

    A green energy company head who donated to Democrats is suspected of profiting from a government deal? Someone call the newspapers, policy preferences are partisan!! Sorry, this is par for the course (see: Haliburton and Blackwater), sell your outrage when it isn't so diluted by hypocricy.

    As for your final 'Obama is gay and so are you' shot, grow up.

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  3. @Barry,
    Yeah, just like Obama's birth certificate and Bush planning 9/11 and Clinton killing Vincent Foster were "full blown scandals" right?

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  4. Getting kick backs is the scandal, the fact that they kept purposefully pouring money (down a sink-hole) into a failing company for kick-backs is the incompetent part of the scandal. But it is very apropos that Obama made Solyndra the face of his stimulus program don't you think??.... By the way, I don't care who takes steam baths with Obama, showers with him, rubs his back or all those other "personal assistant" jobs.... It's just when you are heavily ass tonguing him as his blogging appologist you tend to lose prespective...

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  5. If you think my saying the Obama Admin is incompetant but not corrupt is tonguing the guy, your standards are pretty low.

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  6. Ozi....

    Don't be sad that you were the last one to privately admit to yourself (but not publically) that Obama is grossly incompetent and corrupt and did not recreate Camelot like the MSM and you so desperately wanted.

    You actually thought that a guy who had a do nothing stint as a two-year U.S. senator, had precious little experience in anything other than functioning as a neighborhood community organizer (on Chicago’s mean streets), was an inconsequential Illinois state senator would be compentent and not incompetent & corrupt? ..... Wow, the check's in the mail and euphgeek won't cum in your mouth....

    When a guy campaigns on reform and against beltway politics as usual but then immediately retools the Clinton machine once he is elected and hires every ex-lobbyist and tax cheat as his cabinet, you really thought that there would be no corruption?

    I hate to say it but you and euphgeek will be standing there Nov 2012 looking at the new republican president who won by a land slide with that Carter-Reagan after-taste in your mouths....

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  7. Way to change the subject!

    But I'm game. I don't think any experience - executive or otherwise - can prepare you for being President. I vote based on character. And I prefered Obama's character (Moderate but passionate) to McCain's. Still do.

    Though I've been disappointed in the man since he failed to reform the financial sector in like 2009. And most of the leftists I know are pretty furious with him. Like Freepers at Romney pissed. So your whole 'libs are all in denial about incompetent Obama' worldview isn't quite tracking with reality.

    As for your massive guilt by association at the end of the piece...yeah. Partisan talking points do not a strong case make.

    I'll admit Obama is weak in this election, but he's been blessed by ridiculous opponents. So I say it's still up in the air what will happen. Can you be so clear-eyed about your party's problems?

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  8. There was no subject change. If you all are so disappointed in him, why are you all so heavily committed to white-wash him and his administration?? Why not apply some of that hard core leftist hate & ridicule continually used on Bush towards Obama? He is clearly fucking up every bit as bad as Bush, just in different areas.... He has 3 wars going on, where are all the constant protests like with Bush? Where's the "No blood for Oil Obama" signs in the streets?? Because no matter how much he sucks it's "partisan politics" all the way and the professional left will work to keep him going, right Ozi??

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  9. Yep, left partisans are hypocrites. Luckily, right partisan hypocrites are stepping into the breach.

    Obama is to me how Freepers see a RINO. Not stopping the problems in this country, but increasing them at a slower rate than a full Republican would.

    Espially with the radicalism in the Republican party these days. I'm pretty moderate - I want a smaller Federal government in a lot of ways. But I have no one to vote for on that issue who isn't batshit crazy.

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  10. What white-wash? Just because we don't buy into every conspiracy theory and OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE doesn't mean we don't have valid criticism of him.

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  11. @ Barry Soetero,

    Forget about trying to convince hard-core commies like euphidiot. The same crowd that screeched "Enron", is now nowhere to be seen. Obama fundraiser is linked to Solyandra.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-solyndra-donor-20110917,0,1142974.story

    It is not some conspiracy. Solyandra used its political influence with the White House to obtain funds.

    @euphgeek,
    You guys bought into every conspiracy theory and OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE when GWB was around.

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  12. @Anonymous,
    So you admit that conservatives are just emulating liberals, that they don't really have any legitimate criticism of Obama? That they're merely trying to get revenge for liberals' treatment of Bush?

    And if Solyndra is a scandal, do you now agree that Haliburton and Enron were scandals as well? Whatever happens to Obama as a result of this must also happen to Bush, you know.

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  13. @euphgeek: Oh there's legitimate criticism of Obama all right as much as you would like to deflect it (and you got your panties in a wad about the term White Wash, was it the "white" part??) If Georgie needs to go to jail so be it, but Obama's list of growing scandals is not going to help in his pathetic re-election bid. Lets not forget in addition to Solyndra there's the Gunwalker: Fast & Furious scandal, and the LightSquared scandal. All three of which involve active cover ups by the Obama administration. So for you to feign innocence about Obama and keep pointing fingers at Bush is like, dare I say it? "The pot calling the kettle black"... Yes his message of Change was such a total crock of shit....

    PS: Enron was not a sole republican thing now was it?? If you forgot just ask Clinton....

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  14. @Barry,
    If you think that I "got my panties in a wad" over your use of "white wash" then you have very low standards. Which makes sense, as you have very low standards for "scandal." As long as the president is a Democrat, that is. Call me a hypocrite all you want, but remove that log from your own eye before you tell me about the speck in mine.

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