You gotta be sh*ttin' me!...

White House Pressure for a Donor?

It's almost as if they CAN'T do anything without including "The Chicago way"...

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I wonder how much fossil fuel money is behind all these BS attacks on green energy companies? And yes, they're BS attacks!

BS attack on Lightsquared:
And one would question if the general had alterior motives after hearing Lightsquared CEO complain,
So they're not even allowed to have a representative at their own hearing. What's up with that, GOP?

I also find it funny, no such interest from the GOP in Administration misconduct was present in regards to Halliburton, KBR and Blackwater a few years ago when the US taxpayer was getting ripped off by these no-bid contracts on a weekly basis.

As for the BS attack on Solyndra...

BS attack on Solyndra:

The right is trying to do to green energy, what it tried to do with Climategate, which was make a big deal out of nothing.

BTW, the government was not the only investor, there was a lot of private money too.
We can expect more of these BS issues surfacing as we get closer to the primary's.

Blah, blah, blah.... More diversion away from the issue of teh amount of corporate influence in the WH. Care to discuss THAT, Billo??? You've always been the guy standing on the corner screaming about corporate influence on the Rep. side of things, yet it seems like your screaming has been tempered down to an occasional grumble. We've got very strong evidence of gross infleunce peddling in this admin. and all we hear from the left is attempts to excuse it or divert teh discussion away this issue.

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It's no diversion. Corporate influence is prevalent in Washington on both sides. However, in regards to this issue, the negative influence rests with the republican bitch whores of the oil, gas and coal industries trying to create a controversy where there is none.

So crony capitalism is OK as long as you like the companies that benefit?
How did we benefit but giving 500 Million dollars to a company with strings that allowed the govt to be paid back last while donors to Obama were first in line?

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So you think that the MASSIVE amount of money that the folks behind Solyndra pumped into his campaign and the campaigns of a lot of other Dems. had nothing to do with this??? Seriously???? Billo, you may be an insufferable (yet lovable) lunatic at times, but I never thought that you'd turn a willing blind eye to this kind crap. This isn't some assumed association, it's pure, unadulterated influence peddling. Yes, it's happened on both sides, but for it to happen at this level, this blatantly and this expensively has got to get your fur up. Yet for some reason you chose to ignore this issue and try to shift the discussion to "B-b-b-but Bush..."

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

I hardly consider $87,050 a "MASSIVE amount of money".

This is just another GOP witch hunt, much like the one with ACORN was. And we all know how those accusations turned out. Not one was able to make it into a court of law, let alone whind up in a conviction. This is just the right crying wolf one more time.

That's non-sense. First off, it wasn't Kaiser that made the donation, it was his foundation. Second, since it was his foundation, there was no way he could profit from it.

So much for your influence peddling.

This is just another Fox-based made up story.

Trust me, if there was something to get the "fur" standing, my fur would be the first to be standing at attention.

I'm just putting things in perspective. Giving examples of real cronyism. Real examples, for which the right said nothing about at the time.

BTW, why is it, you're not mentioning the fact that one of the donors was the conservative Walton family and that Solyndra's first loan was approved by the Bush Administration?

I neither like, nor dis-like, Solyndra. I didn't even know they existed, until this controversy came up. So WTF makes you think I like the company?

The "donors" consisted of private investors too.

At least wipe off your chin

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You saw that?