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Battery maker on verge of going terminals-up

Obama’s Green Robber Barons by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Had enough of fat cat Barack Obama, his jet-setting wife and his multi-millionaire Chicago consigliere/real-estate mogul Valerie Jarrett attacking the “rich”? Well, brace yourselves. You’ll be hearing much more from the White House about the “wealthy few” who aren’t paying their “fair share” as [...]

Historic levels of transparency

“We can’t wait!”

“Next stop, bankruptcy!”

**Written by Doug Powers The pessimist sees this as taxpayers being out $43 million, but the optimistic green bureaucrat will compare it to Solyndra and tout it as saving taxpayers $492 million. The latest DoE loan recipient to declare bankruptcy is Beacon Power Corp: A Massachusetts company that received a $43 million Energy Department loan [...]

**Written by Doug Powers What are the odds this review determines that there was indeed malfeasance during their watch?** **The Rhetorical Question of the Day was brought to you by QuietRock soundproof doors. When you don’t want to hear the answer, make it QuietRock! From Fox News: The White House has ordered a review of [...]

En route

Yes, I’m still awake. Up at 4am this morning and still going. Got home after a speech in Denver late tonight to find that the Senate (going on 900 + days without a budget) was up to all sorts of stealthy business in the midnight hour. As of 1:28am, the Senate was casting procedural votes [...]

Missing in action

**Written by Doug Powers White House Spokesman Jay Carney today didn’t stray from Joe Biden’s side over his latest round of fear mongering. Transcript from Real Clear Politics: “I think it would be hard to find anyone that doesn’t agree,” White House press secretary Carney said about Joe Biden’s remark that rapes will increase if [...]

“Who thinks he’s part of the reason we were born in debt?”

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are paying attention. Democrats in Washington are turning up the heat on the GOP as they push for quick passage of the “mini” $35 billion union jobs bailout. True to Alinsky form, Team Obama is spinning more emo-narratives centered on saving teachers from layoffs. At a Save the Teachers [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Another bus tour is under way to promote the $447 billion “save the jobs of the same people whose jobs were supposed to have been saved by the first stimulus” bill. As expected, President Obama is suggesting breaking the bill into smaller pieces. The problem is apparently that the American Jobs [...]

debsinger2 citizenbrad Time for some classic Obama Bus Tour photoshops (more here). Yep, he’s on the road again — campaigning on the taxpayer’s dime for who knows what whenever. In the aftermath of the Senate’s rejection of his massive government jobs slush fund, the White House will now push for passage of a slew of [...]

While the Kamp Alinsky Kids were taunting police officers across the country on Friday night, the Obama-Biden 2012 campaign quietly released its list of the elite deep-pocketed donors who bundled at least $20 million for the White House. I’m publishing the full list below. Some 41 bundlers bagged more than $500,000 each for Mr. Obama [...]

The subtle approach

**Written by Doug Powers In June of last year, when “Recovery Summer” was just kicking off, construction began on an Orlando parkway to be named after President Obama and, fittingly enough, paid for with stimulus funds. The first section of road has been completed: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that showcased President [...]

I blogged last night about the Obama government jobs bill bust in the Senate. My coverage is here. The Hill’s report is here. The Dems know it’s another massive dud, yet Team Obama and his prog supporters are accusing opponents of wanting to deliberately harm the economy for political gain. Cloward-Piven projection at its finest: [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Logo credit: Sloane Buried within an ABC News story about today’s release of hundreds of Solyndra-related emails is a reminder of what White House Spokesman Jay Carney said at a press conference late last month after being asked about the involvement of a Department of Energy consultant and Obama fundraiser named [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Obama administration was preparing to toss another very expensive life preserver, but Solyndra had already forever slipped beneath the rolling, green waves. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration’s Department of Energy was poised last summer to give Solyndra a second major taxpayer loan of $469 million, even as the [...]

Bluff Story

Sending up solar flares

**Written by Doug Powers Last spring while visiting Nevada Geothermal Power, Sen. Harry Reid said “this project is exactly the type of initiative we need to ensure Nevada creates good-paying jobs.” Notice Reid didn’t say the geothermal power company was exactly they type of initiative Nevada needed to create power. From the New York Times: [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The guaranteed government loan program for “renewable energy” projects, a stimulus-sponsored exercise in venture socialism most famous for its ongoing Solyndra debacle and ties to investors that just happen to be Obama campaign donors, expired yesterday. The Department of Energy didn’t let the deadline go quietly: The Energy Department finalized Friday [...]

My latest column investigates the green-washing of the government-funded solar energy racket going in America’s schools. Do you know what your kids are being taught — or rather, not being taught about failed eco-subsidies? Find out below. First, a quick Solyndra Watch link round-up: The White House is doing a Chu-step – sending Energy Secretary [...]

“We’re in charge”

“Over-suggesting”?

(Click to watch) Well, another House hearing on Solyndra came and went this morning. In another Great Moment Of Transparency in the Age of Obama, the Solyndra execs took the Fifth as promised. The Democrats’ erstwhile chief inquisitor and witch hunter of Capitol Hill, Henry Waxman, demonstrated his trademark chutzpah by complaining that the GOP [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, President Obama promoted his “jobs bill” at a bridge that might not even be eligible for jobs bill money. Andrew Malcolm at Top of the Ticket noticed something during Obama’s latest “Bridge to Bankruptcy” speech that would be much more widely reported if Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin had said [...]