Free Republic

With their entire economic approach under fire after the collapse of Solyndra — and no small amount of speculation as to the motives behind the Obama administration’s approval of over a half-billion dollars in subsidies for the solar-tech flop — the White House has launched their own investigation into Solyndra’s failure.  Are they looking at their own decision to sink tens of billions of dollars into a decades-old industry that has never produced a return on such subsidies before?  No, they’re looking to blame China for, er, doing exactly what Obama did in 2009 (via Jimmie Bise): The Department of...

"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of the agreement." After landing in Denmark early this morning, President Obama met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a bilateral at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to press the case that China needs to allow for transparency. "The President's priority is to make our economy far more focused on a clean energy economy that creates jobs," the official said....