[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Well, I'll be. It seems that Dubya and the Congressional GOP were up to their eyeballs in the Solyndra affair after all.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...C0K_story.html

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Just to beat them to the punch---"Well, yeah, but if it breaks on Obamas watch, he owns it."

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...............Oh, a wise guy, eh?

Dave

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

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This doesn’t mean that Bush is to blame for Solyndra or that the Obama administration should be absolved. Obama, whose administration gave the company the loan guarantee, deserves the black eye that Republicans have given him over the half a billion dollars squandered on the company.

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The GOP may have created the program, but Obama slammed through a nice payoff to a supporter.

Pete

Originally Posted by painter

What Piece-itpete said....

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It is. However the GOP nixed the loan to Solyndra - Obie & co OK'd it. It's a lot of money.

Pete

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

They created the program or at least agreed with it. They DENIED loan guarentees to Solyndra. Obama OK'd them.

Pete

Originally Posted by finnbow

What you said is certainly the conventional wisdom. However, it seems Dubya and Co. did a preliminary screening and picked Solyndra as one of its "winners" in the program. My point is that this type of stuff is unfortunately bipartisan (refer to my previous post on Halliburton).

Originally Posted by finnbow

All true. However, if you read the article, you see that the same GOP congressional clowns criticizing the Solyndra deal favored it under Dubya. I guess when it comes to slinging sh!t, they can have it both ways.

What did I tell ya, Finn?

Dave