To: jlallen who wrote (657755 ) 6/6/2012 8:02:58 AM From: THE WATSONYOUTH 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to These Democrats are plain idiots for bringing this up, Keep it up.Steve Maley ( Diary ) Obama Romney Failed Green Company Solyndra Konarka “Investment” $535,000,000 $1,500,000 Taxpayer Money Lost $528,000,000 $0 Years to Bankruptcy 2 9 Source of Funds Federal State Loan Repaid? No Yes Tied to Wealthy Campaign Donors? Yes No
You’ve gotta wonder about someone who can draw any kind of equivalence between these two programs. Maybe that’s the difference between a community organizer and a businessman. [Update: Note also that there have been several other failures in Obama's DoE LAN guarantee program, notably Beacon Power Corp., a failure of similar scale to Solyndra. - Ed.]Driver A is driving 125 mph in a School Zone. While drunk. In a stolen car. Painted like a cop car. Driver B is driving with interstate traffic at 67 mph in a 65 zone. Driver A to arresting trooper: “See? He’s speeding too!” TheHill: Solar firm that received state loans under Romney files for bankruptcy “Every day we see a new example of Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy. Just one day after he pulled a political stunt outside Solyndra, we learned even more about his record of picking winners and losers in Massachusetts when one of the companies he gave a loan to went bankrupt,” said Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith in a statement. “Mitt Romney may think he can play by a different set of rules, but he can’t hide his history of giving millions of dollars in government loans to campaign donors.” … Also, Boston Globe: Mitt Romney accused of hypocrisy after Lowell solar company goes bankrupt Cross-posted at Maley’s Energy Blog.
