GOP Solyndra probe wants Obama’s BlackBerry messages

“If President Obama believes that we should borrow billions of dollars from China to subsidize American businesses trying to compete with China then he doesn’t understand this country’s economic system.”

~Rep. Cliff Stearns

Darren Samuelsohn Politico 10/6/2011

The GOP’s demand for all White House communications on Solyndra covers President Barack Obama’s […]

Energy Department approves $1 billion in solar energy loan guarantees

Andrew Restuccia The Hill 9/28/2011

The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two separate solar energy projects.

The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer that received a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009, filed for bankruptcy and […]

Let’s Take a Closer Look at the Law Firm That Represented Solyndra, Shall We?

JohnE. Ace of Spades HQ 9/26/2011

Earlier in the week, the Los Angeles Times reported that yet another Obama fundraiser was involved with the federal loan guarantee program that backed Solyndra.

Steve Spinner, who helped monitor the Energy Department’s issuance of $25 billion in government-backed loans to renewable energy projects, was one of Obama’s top […]

House GOP Lines Up Again for Big Natural Gas Boondoggle

Capitol Confidential Big Government 9/23/2011

Just a little over a month ago, we reported that House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee had called off a hearing on a natural gas boondoggle that would have lined the pockets of T. Boone Pickens and George Soros with taxpayer dollars. We were proud of the GOP […]

Obama Bundler and Solyndra Investor George Kaiser, Boasts of Milking Federal Government for Millions

Trevor Loudon New Zeal 9/21/2011

Crony capitalism, or as I prefer to call it, fascism, is an ugly thing.

This casual looting of the US taxpayer is hideous. Listen to how the audience laughs at this corruption.

 

Related: Solyndra employees speak out about mismanagement and sloppy spending

…“After we got the loan guarantee, […]

Surprise: Solyndra execs to take the Fifth at congressional hearings next week

Allahpundit HotAir.com 9/20/2011

That’s not what they said would happen last week. Remember? Philip Klein, September 13:

[GOP Rep. Cliff] Stearns, speaking to bloggers at the Heritage Foundation, said the executives called the committee staff yesterday and asked whether they would be allowed to delay their testimony until next week. If they were granted the […]

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