Solyndra: Republicans Blame Obama for yet ANOTHER One of Their Babies!

by: lowkell

Wed Sep 14, 2011 at 15:17:33 PM EDT

*The Great Recession, which started on THEIR WATCH and was caused mostly by THEIR policies!
*The budget deficit and debt, both of which were racked up overwhelmingly on THEIR WATCH (Reagan and Bush 43 in particular), and which were mostly inherited by Barack Obama the day he took office.
*Rising income inequality, which is almost 100% their fault, as a result of their massive and sustained class warfare against working people and in favor of the super-wealthy.
*"Cap and trade," which was a conservative, Republican, free-market idea coming out of the Reagan and Bush 41 administration, but then became Evil Incarnate once the Democrats started to champion it.
*The individual mandate, which was the Republican alternative to the employer mandate, but became Evil Incarnate once - you guessed it, once Democrats started to take ownership of it.
*The health care reform package, which is almost identical to both Romneycare AND the 1993/93 Republican alternative to "Hillarycare." But now it's all Evil Incarnate, because -- yep, you guessed it, because Democrats are for it.
*Debt ceiling increases, which they used to vote for routinely, but are not anathema because - yep, you guessed it...
*An Arab-Israeli peace settlement based on the 1967 boundaries, which has been U.S. policy since 1967 - under Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. But now it's Evil Incarnate, because - yep, you guessed it...

And now, there's the Solyndra bankruptcy, which Republicans are pinning 100% on the Obama administration. Except for one thing: yet again, this was THEIR BABY!

Solyndra was one of 16 clean-tech companies deemed ready to move forward in the due diligence process. The Bush Administration DOE moves forward to develop a conditional commitment.

In an effort to show it has done something to support renewable energy, the Bush Administration tries to take Solyndra before a DOE credit review committee before President Obama is inaugurated. The committee, consisting of career civil servants with financial expertise, remands the loan back to DOE "without prejudice" because it wasn't ready for conditional commitment.

Of course, just as with "cap and trade," the "individual mandate," health care reform, etc., etc., none of these facts will stop Republicans from disingenuously and hypocritically attacking President Obama. It's our job to push back. Fortunately, as is almost always the case when it comes to Republican attacks, the facts are on our side.

P.S. One more thought: consider who benefits from this vicious, sustained, opportunistic attack on solar power and an on clean energy in general.  Gee, that's a tough one. Not. I mean, c'mon, we all know that Dirty Energy interests - Big Coal, Big Oil, etc. - have it in for solar, as well as for the Democrats. We also know that Dirty Energy has pretty much bought and paid for the Republican Party, including people like Dirty Energy lobbyist/shill George "Felix Macacawitz" Allen. Any further questions regarding what's behind all this nonsense?