In Defense of Crony Capitalism
September 29th, 2011 - 10:54 am
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic, “The Case for Solyndra.”
Michael Grunwald, Time, “I doubt the facts are going to matter much now that Republicans have latched onto the Solyndra solar “scandal.”
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, “Conservatives have been trying to paint this as a big scandal of some kind.”
Rick Holmes, Holmes & Company, “Joe Nocera does a good job, I think, explaining and defending the Solyndra deal.”
Joe Nocera, New York Times, “That’s how Washington works in the modern age: the party out of power gins up phony scandals aimed at hurting the party in power.”
Keep digging, boys.
Our we supposed to take this stuff seriously? I mean a deal that just might cost the American tax payers a half a billion dollars, which was a bad deal as seen by anyone who understood the market, which JUST HAPPENED to involve a major Obama contributor, is defensible? This is on the Moon Landing Hoax level of denial.
So, given his quote above, Nocera admits to having knowingly promoted phony scandals in the past? Thanks for the confirmation, Joe.
It’s really tiresome when Libbs go into full bore psychological projection mode. If they can’t accept responsibility for something, for .anything, then why should they be trusted with it, any of it?
As with the Operation Fast and Furious scandal coming their way, these rhetorical arguments are of limited value. What Obama and his cronies will need is a legal defense, assuming certain outcomes in November 2012. By the way, “Will you prosecute?” is just about of equal importance with “Will you repeal?” for me in picking a candidate.
Only 1/2 bil and another 3/4 bil for Pelosi’s in-laws. We have a lot of $200,000 earner-millionaires tax money to redistribute. Chump change, folks, nothing to see.
Ditto /#4, Repeal Repeal Repeal is the only platform that gets my 100% support. Start with Soeterocare, Repeal it, S-TART treaty, Repeal it, Curly light bulbs, Repeal it. Then Repeal Income Tax entirely, way BEFORE 2013, it’s aniversairé. Don’t ask Don’t Tell repeal. (passed christmas eve 2010 in lame duck session before new House majority takes office Jan 2011.) Repeal It. Prosecute all during. Relentlessly. Congressional subpeonas, The works.
Phony scandels, like, umm…Halliburton?
Yeah, how exactly was that supposed to have worked? I have been under the impression that you just had to mention “H——–” and a stern, minor organ chord would start playing in the background…