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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (117340)	11/9/2011 7:39:55 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224757

washingtonpost.com EXCLUSIVE \| The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s factory, newly obtained e-mails show. The Silicon Valley company, a centerpiece in President Obama’s initiative to develop clean energy technologies, had been tentatively approved for the loan by the Energy Department but was awaiting a final financial review by the Office of Management and Budget. 1779 Comments Weigh In Corrections? inShare Video Solyndra LLC CEO Brian Harrison and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover have postponed their previously scheduled congressional testimony until sometime next week. Harrison and Stover were scheduled to testify tomorrow after the company filed for bankruptcy protection following a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee. (Sept. 13) Video President Obama has put a special spotlight on clean technology during his time in the White House, personally visiting and praising 22 companies for their work on energy innovation and efficiency in high-profile trips. These visits made up more than half of Obama's out-of-town travel to businesses. More on this Story Read more on PostPolitics.com Carville to Obama: Fire your staff What Rick Perry learned from Donald Trump U.N. showdown over Palestinian statehood tests U.S. influence View all Items in this Story Obama green-tech program struggles to create jobs White House pushed loan to solar company The Fix: Could Pennsylvania Republicans end the electoral college as we know it? Timeline: A history of Solyndra House panel questions Solyndra loan Solyndra painted rosy outlook, memo says Feds raid Solyndra offices Closure affects Obama donor-linked foundation White House-backed solar company goes under Solyndra execs postpone congressional testimony [url=]Obama's clean-energy road show[/url] Live Q&A, 1 p.m. EST Solyndra: Is the White House in trouble? Ask now The August 2009 e-mails, released exclusively to The Washington Post, show White House officials repeatedly asking OMB reviewers when they would be able to decide on the federal loan and noting a looming press event at which they planned to announce the deal. In response, OMB officials expressed concern that they were being rushed to approve the company’s project without adequate time to assess the risk to taxpayers, according to information provided by Republican congressional investigators. Solyndra collapsed two weeks ago, leaving taxpayers liable for the $535 million loan. One e-mail from an OMB official referred to “the time pressure we are under to sign-off on Solyndra.” Another complained, “There isn’t time to negotiate.” “We have ended up with a situation of having to do rushed approvals on a couple of occasions (and we are worried about Solyndra at the end of the week),” one official wrote. That Aug. 31, 2009, message, written by a senior OMB staffer and sent to Terrell P. McSweeny, Biden’s domestic policy adviser, concluded, “We would prefer to have sufficient time to do our due diligence reviews.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (117340)	11/9/2011 7:42:35 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

By Peter Wallsten Colorful longtime strategist and TV pundit James Carville. (Alex Wong - GETTY IMAGES FOR MEET THE PRESS) President Obama needs to fire a lot of people. That’s the conclusion of longtime Democratic strategist and TV pundit James Carville, who unloaded on Obama Thursday for failing to change his White House team despite months of lagging poll numbers and stagnant economic indicators. “For God's sake,” Carville wrote on CNN’s web site, “why are we still looking at the same political and economic advisers that got us into this mess? It's not working.” Carville, the colorful longtime strategist for Former President Clinton, did not name names. His comments were likely to be read carefully by the small circle of aides and friends that has long surrounded the president – David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett and (even since leaving the White House) David Axelrod, among them. “Bill Clinton fired many people in 1994 and took a lot of heat for it,” Carville wrote. “Reagan fired most of his campaign staff in 1980. Republicans historically fired their own speaker, Newt Gingrich. Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.” He added: “It’s not going to work with the same team, the same strategy and the same excuses. I know economic analysts are smart -- some work 17-hour days. It's time to show them the exit. Wake up -- show us you are doing something.” White House officials did not respond to requests for comment. White House press secretary Jay Carney, asked about Carville’s views, said Thursday that Obama “firmly believes that the American people know that he is doing everything he can to grow the economy, doing everything he can to work with Congress to create jobs, and he will continue at that.” Carville laid out his prescription for how Obama and his lieutenants should respond to their troubles — most recently, the Democratic losses in special House races this week in New York and Nevada. “What should the White House do now? he asked. “One word came to mind: Panic.” “Have you talked to any Democratic senators lately? I have,” Carville continued. “It's pretty damn clear they are not happy campers.” He called on Obama to bring about a “complete change from the direction you are headed.” “Fire somebody. No -- fire a lot of people,” he wrote. “This may be news to you but this is not going well. For precedent, see Russian Army 64th division at Stalingrad. There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm.”