When your hometown newspaper has an article like this - you know things are bad.
This ONE scandal is going to hand around obama’s (and the dems) neck for the next 12 months. And there are more coming...
Along with a double dip and housing prices that will continue to slide.
I predict in 2012 that democrat candidates will not use the word “obama” or “democrat” in their political ads...
The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it’s being billed as a Washington story.
But back in Obama’s political hometown, those of us familiar with the Chicago Way can see something else in Solyndra — something that the Washington crowd calls “optics.” In fact, it’s not just a Washington saga — it has all the elements of a Chicago City Hall story, except with more zeros.
And now the Tribune Washington Bureau has reported that the U.S. Department of Energy employee who helped monitor the Solyndra loan guarantee was one of Obama’s top fundraisers.
Fundraising? Contracts? Imagine that.
Steve Spinner was the Obama administration official in charge of handing out billions and billions of tax dollars to “green” energy deals. According to the Tribune story, Spinner the other day invited Obama’s national political finance committee to a meeting in Chicago.
The name of the Obama fundraising initiative?
“Technology for Obama.”
The idea of the Obama fundraisers getting together, talking “green,” and perhaps offering taxpayer loan guarantees to insider businesses in the interest of helping the environment — it all seems rather fresh.
Like a mountain meadow.
There are the guys who count. The guys who bring the cash. They count because they do the counting. They have leverage. They’re always there at the fundraisers. And so they’re the ones who are allowed to gorge at the public trough.
“When your hometown newspaper has an article like this - you know things are bad.”
I hope you’re right in that Solyndra will follow BO for the rest of his term, but don’t put too much stock in one article critical of Obama in the Tribune.
John Kass is a the Trib’s marquee opinion columnist, so he has a good bit of freedom in what he says; moreover, he’s relatively conservative, and has never hesitated to take on the Daleys, Deadfish Rahm, the donkey machine in Chicago, and the whole corrupt state government.
When the rest of the editorial staff turns on the Chosen One I’ll be impressed, but my guess is the Trib’s collective lips are still firmly attached to Obama’s backside.