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Where is all the Solyndra coverage?

Started 8 months ago by Smitty
Latest reply from JoB

Smitty
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Oh well, it's only half a billion dollars......Fox must be biased for running the story when no one else is......

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/23/solyndra-execs-plead-fifth-at-congressional-hearing-more-than-dozen-times/

Posted 8 months ago #
kootchman
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Half a billion here, half a billion there... it's just taxpayer money. There are congressional hearings... and of course... ha ha ha ... the old Democratice refrain.. "Bush did it"... unbelievable but they tried it! Good thing the DOE didn't destroy ALL the e-mails.. we have a Republican Congress and the investigation are going on... I prefer they sorta peak in about six months.... so far we have a slew of fifith amendment appeals, DOJ refusing to release documents, ... this one is too big to sweep under the carpet. This administration needs a special prosecutor... Holder and DOJ are subverting the law.

Posted 8 months ago #
charlabob
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Good job, guys - keep it up, but your desperation is showing.

Oddly, I've read a lot of coverage of Sylindra, in left and "main stream" publications. Of course, most of the MSM is busy trying to look fair and balanced by endless coverage of content free R* "debates", lying press opportunities, and the possibility that Sarah Palin may find a way to make even more money on her non-campaign.

Frankly, if I were an R* operative, I'd sue on the basis of too much transparency. We now have a situation where the voting population doesn't want obama, wants a "generic" somebody else, and yet Obama can beat any known R candidate. I guess to know them is not to love them.

My gloves are off -- the goal of R's, stated before inauguration day, was to make Obama a one-term president. Seeing to it that popular programs are decimated and that employment (in the public sector) continues to dry up is one way to do it -- a pretty painful way for the country but if you hate the country as much as the R party does, that's a small price to pay.

I have to say, Kootchman, the R justice department should certainly know how to subvert the law. Maybe they left a manual for the D's.

The one thing the current crop of candidates and cranky pundits and posters has done is push this crankly leftist off the fence and solidly into the Obama camp. No ambivalance -- no wistfulness -- he may be as close to a liberal as we can get.

Posted 8 months ago #
Smitty
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Nice.

Any comment on the actual story or are you mum just like the LMSM?

Posted 8 months ago #
Lindsey
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I don't think you can give Fox an exclusive on this story. And these are just stories that mention the congressional testimony. There are plenty more articles on Solyndra leading up to that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44638883/ns/politics-capitol_hill/#.TnzLEr8RSSE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/no-answers-from-solyndra-execs-at-hearing/2011/09/23/gIQApRaiqK_video.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/20/news/la-pn-issa-solyndra-probe-20110920

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/house-republicans-look-to-end-solyndra-loan-program/

Posted 8 months ago #
Bostonman
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The fact that anyone can defend that company and what they did is reprehensible. They took the money and I am sure the CFO and CEO knew they wouldn't be able to compete on a global market when China was making cheaper and better solar panels. The fact they took the money and they are now going to plead the 5th is admitting your guilt.

The government did waste the money, they did fail to do their due diligence and they will fail to hold people accountable.

Posted 8 months ago #
JoB
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And let the witch hunt begin...
it's obama's fault
it's obama's fault
it's obabma's fault

so.. one solar tech company that was given govt funds went bankrupt because they couldn't attract more investors in new technology.

Surprise Surprise Surprise.

The technology we invested in still exists for someone else to pick up and run with...

which was the point of the investment.

where were the cries of malfeasance when the govt was giving no bid contracts to Halliburton and other private contractors to build substandard accommodations for our troops?
The amount of money still unaccounted for is staggering...

and that was in the news in the last few weeks too.

except.. it gets harder to blame Obama for what happened on Bush's watch.

Posted 8 months ago #
Bostonman
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There were cries of malfeasance all over the place when Haliburton was involved. Also, I didn't say it was Obamas fault. I said governments fault of course manipulating it to make it sound like anyone said Obama is expected. There is lots of blame to go around with this kind of crap. Of course the argument of you did it so I should do it is bull s***.

You are telling me we gave them 500B so that they could create technology someone else could use. Ya I am sure that was the purpose lol.

Posted 8 months ago #
Smitty
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Is the answer always deflection, Job? Last time I checked, Bush wasn't running in 2012.

BDS continues all the way to the grave, eh?

Posted 8 months ago #
JoB
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Smitty...

i am tired and i am cranky so i am not going to pull any punches here.

i am sick to death of listening to the never-ending stream of complaints that never seem to address the fact that the republicans in congress are doing everything in their power to shut down any program that even stands the smallest chance of being effective.

George W Bush should be held responsible for what happened on his watch... because if he isn't.. all we are going to get is more of the same.

I would have more respect for you if you admitted the failures of the last administration instead of just shouting at the top of your voice every time you think you have a reason to poke a hole in this one.

I am not tickled with Obama.
Quite frankly I think he accepted far too many of the folks Bush jr brought to town..
a good house cleaning was in order and we didn't get it...

but crying wolf over failed venture capital while ignoring the successes in the program doesn't impress me in the least.

the simple truth is that there are failures in every new technology..
it's part of the learning curve...

Posted 8 months ago #
JoB
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Bostonman...

at what point have you ever seen me excuse any kind of malfeasance because everyone does it?

doesn't happen.

Failures in cutting edge technologies happen all of the time. That's the nature of venture capital.

What would be more useful to know is the success or failure rate of the entire amount invested as venture capital by the US government in alternative energy technology.

but that wouldn't make the same bad Obama failed presidency story.. would it?

If there is equal indignation over Halliburton and other contractors... where is the post asking where that story is?

I would really like to know...

because to tell you the truth...
it a whole lot larger and less excusable than this one.

Posted 8 months ago #