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 Post subject: Re: The ''phony sloyndra scandal''
PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:22 pm 
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while Obama supporters chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Mitt Romney has got to go.”


were these the $20 SEIU hacks or the half a pack of KOOLs and 6 pack of tall boys thugs they bus in?...

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 Post subject: Re: The ''phony sloyndra scandal''
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:34 am 
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Mittens the pathological liar lies about Soyndra:
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Mitt Romney’s Ads: Still Wrong on the Stimulus


It was a line near the end of Romney’s ad that caught my attention: “The Inspector General said contracts were steered to ‘friends and family.’” That sounded like news. I’ve spent two years in stimulus-world, and I had no idea an inspector general had said that. I asked the Romney campaign for documentation, and it produced a Newsweek article asserting that Energy Department inspector general Gregory Friedman “has testified that contracts have been steered to ‘friends and family.’”

Except that Newsweek article was an excerpt from the book “Throw Them All Out,” written by Peter Schweizer, a right-winger who has served as an adviser to Sarah Palin’s PAC, edited one of Andrew Breitbart’s websites, and written a slew of books portraying liberals as pond scum. Not exactly a disinterested source. And it turns out that the inspector general never testified that stimulus contracts were steered to friends and family. He said his office was investigating whether stimulus contracts were steered to friends and family. So far, it hasn’t confirmed that any were.

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 Post subject: Re: The ''phony sloyndra scandal''
PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:47 am 
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Mittens is not only a pathological liar he's a hypocrite.
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Investment skeletons hiding inside Mitt’s closets

By Dave Wedge http://www.bostonherald.com

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has hammered President Obama for his administration’s tax-funded investment blunders — but when Romney was governor, the state handed out $4.5 million in loans to two firms run by his campaign donors that have since defaulted, leaving taxpayers holding the bag.

The two companies — Acusphere and Spherics Inc. — stiffed the state on nearly $2.1 million in loans provided through the state’s Emerging Technology Fund, a $25 million investment program created while Romney was governor in 2003 that benefitted 13 local firms.

Acusphere, a biotechnology firm headed by a Romney campaign donor, got $2 million in 2004 that it was supposed to put toward a $20 million manufacturing facility in Tewksbury, which never became fully operational. Calls to Acusphere’s headquarters in Lexington were not returned.

According to MassDevelopment, the quasi-public state agency that oversees the technology fund, Acusphere defaulted on the loan after a “nearly complete shutdown” in 2008. A confidential settlement was reached in which a portion of the loan was repaid, MassDevelopment spokeswoman Kelsey Abbruzzese said.

She said the company defaulted on the remainder of the loan after the Food and Drug Administration rejected approval of the firm’s top product, a heart medication.

Spherics Inc., meanwhile, was lured from Rhode Island to Mans–field with much fanfare from the Romney administration, partly through a $2 million loan in 2005. By 2008, the company laid off all employees and completely shut down. The state received about $300,000 when the company liquidated its assets, but the firm defaulted on more than $1.5 million of the state loan, Abbruzzese said.

Together, the two companies’ investors and executives donated more than $7,000 to Romney’s past campaigns.

The Romney presidential campaign responded that although his appointees administered the program, he had initially opposed it.

“This specific funding was part of a stimulus package that Gov. Romney opposed on the grounds that government should not play venture capitalist,” Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.

“Because of his concerns, he vetoed half the funding, but the veto was overridden by the Legislature.”

The loans were approved by a seven-person advisory board that included two Romney appointees and three Romney campaign contributors, a Herald review found.

News of the Bay State companies’ failures come as Romney has slammed Obama for backing $500 million in government loans to now-bankrupt Solyndra.

“These guys were living high because it was government money. That’s the difference between the private sector and the governmental sector,” Romney said last week, slamming Solyndra.

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Solar Company Hires Former Top Biden Staffer, Receives $1.6 Billion Loan From Obama Admin
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Nothing to see here folks, move along.

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Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable political connections with top Democratic policymakers to secure its $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing.

BrightSource energy faced a “do-or-die moment,” according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, as the Energy Department weighed a federal loan for its massive Ivanpah solar farm in the California Mojave Desert.

To spur the administration to approve the loan, BrightSource beefed up its lobbying presence, most notably by hiring Bernie Toon, former chief of staff for then-Senator Joe Biden, to lobby on its behalf. Toon was paid $40,000 for his efforts, according to disclosure forms.

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The ''phony sloyndra scandal''...

according to some ignorant foot lickers...

the same people who can only find fault in DUMBO because he can't sing as good as Al Green...

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 Post subject: Re: The ''phony sloyndra scandal''
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The ''phony sloyndra scandal''...

according to some ignorant foot lickers...

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The loans were approved by a seven-person advisory board that included two Romney appointees and three Romney campaign contributors, a Herald review found.


Yeah, it's only a "scandal" when the black guy does it.

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French Solar Firm Posts $70 Million Loss, Obama Rewards Them With $25 Million DOE Loan
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What is it with this guy and failing solar companies?

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The Department of Energy recently awarded $25 million to a French company that posted net losses of about $70 million last year, and whose solar division is particularly troubled financially.

As part of its Scaling Up Nascent PV At Home (SUNPATH) project, DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) division announced three awards in June to promote high-volume solar energy production.

The largest of the three awards, totaling $25 million, went to Soitec Solar, a French company, to build a solar production facility in San Diego, CA. While Soitec is not in dire financial straits like some other DOE-backed companies, it posted hefty losses during its last financial year, which ended March 31. A number of its major financial indicators were worse than the prior financial year.

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Obama Spokesman on Solyndra:
'Widely Praised as Successful
and Innovative'

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper


Lis Smith, a spokesman for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, touted Solyndra by saying the failed energy company that received federally backed loans has been "widely praised as successful and innovative." "The reality is that Solyndra received funding through a Department of Energy program created under the Bush administration — a program that has supported tens of thousands of jobs across the country and is moving forward with investments in innovative projects like the first nuclear plant built in the U.S. in decades and the world's largest wind farm," Lis Smith told the Detroit News.


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Another Obama-Funded “Green” Energy Company Bites The Dust: Amonix Solar Closes After Receiving $15.6 Million DOE Grant
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before . . .

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The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, heavily financed under an Obama administration energy initiative, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility 14 months after it opened.

Officials at Amonix headquarters in Seal Beach, Calif., have not responded to repeated calls for comment this week. The company today began selling equipment, from automated tooling systems to robotic welding cells.

A designer and manufacturer of concentrated photovoltaic solar power systems, Amonix received $6 million in federal tax credits and a $15.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build the plant in North Las Vegas.

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BARACK OBAMA IS THE ''BANK OF WASHINGTON'' ACCORDING TO FAILED SOLYNDRA


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applauded by Solyndra CEO in email

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Neil Munro


Solyndra’s CEO labeled President Barack Obama’s administration “The Bank of Washington.”

Chris Gronet offered the description in an internal email one year before the company collapsed in 2010, costing taxpayers roughly $500 million.


The email was obtained and published by the Republican National Committee.

“The Bank of Washington continues to help us!” he wrote in the October 2009 e-mail, which sketched plans for Solyndra to exploit several additional federal programs and tax-incentives.

“Some names fit,” said Darrell Issa, the GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee. “Using the name of ‘Bank of Washington’ has a legitimacy that I think will transcend this election,” he said in a Thursday press conference called to highlight the Solyndra email.


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White House Emails Show It Was Rahm Emanuel's Idea To Have Obama Personally Back Solyndra
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Which not-so-shockingly contradict Emanuel's previous claims he never heard of Solyndra.
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Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel repeatedly claimed he had no memory of the Obama administration’s controversial $535 million loan to failed solar company Solyndra, but White House emails released Thursday say it was Emanuel’s idea for the administration to tout the doomed firm.

In a batch of White House emails released in a report on Solyndra by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, White House aide Aditya Kumar wrote to Jacob Levine of the Office of Energy and Climate Change: “Feels like Rahm wants this too (barring any concerns) — POTUS involvement was Rahm’s idea.”

However, speaking to Chicago radio station WLS 890AM at a news conference in September, 2011, Emanuel said he did not remember anything about the failed investment loan by the Department of Energy, which critics say was fast-tracked to fit the White House’s political agenda.

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Only 16% Think It Was A Good Idea For Obama Admin To Give Loan Guarantees To Solyndra
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Anyone care to guess what mental illness the 16% suffers from?

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Most voters don’t think the federal government should have invested in the failed alternative energy firm Solyndra which ended up costing taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars. But most also think it’s business as usual for government officials to help companies they like.

Just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it was a good idea for the government to provide loan guarantees for Solyndra, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifty-six percent (56%) disagree and say it was not a good idea for the government to help fund the company this way. Twenty-eight percent (28%) are not sure.

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Yeah, it's only a "scandal" when the black guy does it.

Over and over again...
Obama Fast-Tracks Another Round of “Green Energy” Projects

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President Obama is fast-tracking seven federal wind and solar projects as the administration touts its energy policies amid GOP criticism over green investments and rising gas prices.

The projects in Arizona, California, Nevada and Wyoming will produce 5,000 megawatts of power, enough to run 1.5 million homes, the White House said in a statement announcing the decision.

“These seven proposed solar and wind projects have great potential to grow our nation’s energy independence, drive job creation, and power economies across the west,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a written statement.

While the expedited projects announced Tuesday deal with electricity, rather than direct fuel substitutes for gasoline, it’s nonetheless part of a wider push to promote the administration’s policies on alternative energy and energy security.

Salazar and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday will hold a news conference celebrating the completed construction of the first wind farm on federal lands in Nevada.

On Monday, Interior and the Department of Defense inked a deal to integrate wind, solar and other green energy technologies with military bases to keep power running during disruptions to the commercial electric grid.

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Only 16% Think It Was A Good Idea For Obama Admin To Give Loan Guarantees To Solyndra


hey edge, what about you? are you part of that 16%?

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Courtesy of Barack Hussien Obama.

And this is just a drop in the bucket.


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Where Our $500 Million Went:
Solyndra Glass Tubes Used as Modern Art

PJ Media, by Zombie


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One of the great mysteries of the 2011 Solyndra bankruptcy was: What happened to all that money? After the United States government “loaned” Solyndra $535 million, the money quickly vanished; the bankruptcy court later found that the company had essentially no cash on hand. They had spent it all on equipment and inventory.
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Surely, then, the inventory could be sold and liquidated, to recover some of the ill-spent cash — right? Well, not really. Auctions of the material at the shuttered Solyndra factory produced very little revenue, as the highly specialized machinery and proprietary photovoltaic components spurred little interest among the auction vultures, since the parts could be used only for one specific purpose: to make Solyndra’s unique tubular solar panels.

The fate of Solyndra’s millions of unused glass tubes is still unknown (many of them were likely destroyed — we’ll get to that part of the story in a moment), but luckily a pair of Bay Area artists somehow managed to get their hands on some of the surviving Solyndra tubes and put them to good use…not to produce electricity, but as art.


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