The man of hope and change is nothing more than a lying politician who is lining the pockets of those who helped him get elected. Of course, Team Obama and the media claim there is no scandal, but the pattern of Obama rewarding political donors is well established. Solyndra, Signa Technologies, LightSquared and a host of other politically connect Obama bundlers have been rewarded trillions in tax dollars as the White House and media try to spin the facts.
From The Washington Post:
///Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama's green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials.
The records, some previously unreported, show that when warned that financial disaster might lie ahead, the administration remained steadfast in its support for Solyndra.
The documents reviewed by The Post, which began examining the clean-technology program a year ago, provide a detailed look inside the day-to-day workings of the upper levels of the Obama administration. They also give an unprecedented glimpse into high-level maneuvering by politically connected clean-technology investors.
They show that as Solyndra tottered, officials discussed the political fallout from its troubles, the "optics" in Washington and the impact that the company's failure could have on the president's prospects for a second term. Rarely, if ever, was there discussion of the impact that Solyndra's collapse would have on laid-off workers or on the development of clean-
energy technology.
That's because it was never about JOBS. It was about rewarding Obama's billionaire bundlers with trillions of taxpayer dollars. The scheme involved pretending to be about job creation even as the pay-to-play sham was evolving. This is why the White House refuses to obey a subpoena that calls for Obama's communication records with Solyndra. The most "transparent" administration is stone-walling the investigation.
"What's so troubling is that politics seems to be the dominant factor," said Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group. "They're not talking about what the taxpayers are losing; they're not talking about the failure of the technology, whether we bet on the wrong horse. What they are talking about is 'How are we going to manage this politically?' "
The administration, which excluded lobbyists from policymaking positions, gave easy access to venture capitalists with stakes in some of the companies backed by the administration, the records show. Many of those investors had given to Obama's 2008 campaign. Some took jobs in the administration and helped manage the clean-
energy program...
The Washington Post is covering the fact that Obama's administration is filled with lobbyists but they have to spin the truth to hide the fact that Obama lied from day one. Over 200 Obama donors have received taxpayer-funded jobs and huge no-bid contracts. The media doesn't want voters to know these facts. This is the same administration who holds meetings with lobbyist outside the White House to avoid disclosure laws.
Officials acknowledged that some of the records provide an unvarnished view that they might have preferred to keep private — such as a senior energy adviser's reference to a conference call about Solyndra as a "[expletive] show," or a company investor writing that when Solyndra was mentioned in a meeting, Biden's office "about had an orgasm."
...Solyndra eventually realized that it had to lay off workers to stay afloat — no small step for a company that the president had backed to create jobs in a recession. But records indicate that the Energy Department urged company officials to delay the move until after the contentious November 2010 midterm elections, which imperiled Democratic control of Congress.
Despite the effect that timing might have on workers, one e-mail among company investors ended the discussion by asserting: "No announcement till after elections at doe request." An Energy Department spokesman did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
Continue to read the article and you will see that billionaire George Kaiser, an Obama bundler, is tied to Solyndra and Obama. Of course the liberal media wants to act like this isn't a scandal but when the taxpayers lose trillions thanks to Obama's "pay-to-play" Chicago politics, it is a scandal.
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