THE REAL SOLYNDRA SCANDAL TURNS OUT TO BE THE SOLYNDRA SCANDAL:

Contrary to earlier White House denials, we recently found out that major Obama fundraiser George Kaiser does indeed seem to have discussed Solyndra with members of the administration (In fairness, it was after the loan had closed. However, given that there were ongoing approvals required for disbursements, and later, for modifications in the loan, this is not very comforting.)

Meanwhile, Hoover’s Peter Schweizer’s new book claims that 80% of the loans in the DOE program that Solyndra tapped went to companies owned or run by Obama backers. Of course, one would expect that most “green energy” types would be enthusiastic Democrats. Still, the thing has a certain whiff about it.

Then today we learn that Solyndra, which was originally going to announce layoffs in late October 2010, held off on the announcement until November 3rd (aka election day). And they seem to have done so at the behest of the White House.

I think the very least you can say is that the political side became inappropriately entangled with the technocratic side of this loan. It undermines one’s faith in both the program, and the administration.

Indeed. Though I’m not sure I ever had much faith to undermine. But even I am surprised at just how blatant a scam this has turned out to be.