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Republicans dodge the real lesson of Solyndra
The Washington Examiner ^ | Sept. 19, 2011 | Timothy P. Carney

Posted on 09/19/2011 4:29:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

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To: MNJohnnie

I’m not pimping a party on this thread. But you are.


21 posted on 09/19/2011 7:20:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EternalVigilance

I’ve always been fascinated by the story of that speech. Further research shows it to be apocryphal, but it is still a good one nonetheless.


22 posted on 09/19/2011 7:21:01 AM PDT by Paradox (Democrats on Obama, They can't deny him, He is them.)
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To: EternalVigilance
This whole article is an example of the infantile "I know you are but what am I" defense.

Rather then discuss the very real wrong doing of the 0 regime in ignoring their own analysis waring that this business model was doomed from the start, the 0bot propagandists here try's to create a fraudulent moral equivalence between the GOP past support for loan guarantees and the corrupt politically actions of the 0 regime in this particular case.

It a fraudulent attempt to divert attention from the very real wrong doing of the 0bots by manufacturing a fraudulent moral equivalence claim.

23 posted on 09/19/2011 7:34:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Paradox

Well, Mr. Crockett always did like a good tall tale. :-)

But the Constitution still says what it says.


24 posted on 09/19/2011 7:34:31 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MNJohnnie

Conservatives can walk and chew gum. They can see clearly what Obama is, and fight him, without putting on blinders about the Republicans.


25 posted on 09/19/2011 7:36:27 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MNJohnnie

By the way, I’ve always been under the impression that Carney, and Barone, and the rest of them at the Washington Examiner are all Republicans.


26 posted on 09/19/2011 7:38:34 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EternalVigilance
I think the problem here is you have utterly NO clue what a Loan Gaurenttee is

A loan guarantee, in finance, is a promise by one party (the guarantor) to assume the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.

That is NOT a "corporate subsidy" as the ignorant author here claims.

If you cannot understand the difference between loan guarantees to solid proven business's which your business analysis say is a prudent move and a loan guarantee to a business your own analysis say IS GOING TO FAIL, you are either too bigoted, or too ignorant, to be commenting on this issue.

27 posted on 09/19/2011 7:45:19 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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Wow, is that a hanging curve-ball! All Carney has to do is give you a list of Republicans that voted for TARP.

Touché!

28 posted on 09/19/2011 8:01:43 AM PDT by randita (Obama - chains you can bereave in.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I’m not responsible for the writer’s understanding of anything. I simply posted it here for discussion.

But I do have a question, based on your post:

Can you point me to the Article or Section of the Constitution that empowers Congress to co-sign notes for private businesses, or to pay the debts of private businesses if they can’t pay? Because I just can’t lay my finger on it.


29 posted on 09/19/2011 8:19:10 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MNJohnnie
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents..."

-- James Madison, the Father of the Constitution


30 posted on 09/19/2011 8:21:49 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EternalVigilance

Good article.


31 posted on 09/19/2011 8:21:59 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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It sure is. Thanks.


32 posted on 09/19/2011 11:15:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EternalVigilance

Isn’t that something.

Almost like we need a candidate who will run against crony capitalism.


33 posted on 09/20/2011 5:52:40 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Governor Palin: "I'm not for sale." It's true. Watch The Undefeated.)
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