Solyndra Defense Reveals Obama's Socialist Mindset: If Government Doesn't Do Something, It Won't Happen
Barely a week ago, we noted that the Morning Joe crew was blowing off the Solyndra scandal. "There's no there, there," they sniffed. But facts are pesky things. A devastating email, which Mika Brzezinski read on the air today, has turned up, indicating that top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett was warned about Solyndra's possibly impending bankruptcy before PBO made his photo-op visit to the company. That compelled Joe Scarborough & Co. to acknowledge that the Solyndra story has legs.
Perhaps even more significant was a clip Morning Joe played of President Obama defending his administration's decision to fund the soon-to-go-belly-up solar panel maker. In stating his case, Obama revealed his fundamentally socialist mind-set. According to the prez, unless the government funds something, it's not going to happen. Video after the jump.
Watch Obama makes his socialist pitch:
BARACK OBAMA: If we don't get behind clean energy, if we don't get behind advanced battery manufacturing, if we're not the ones creating the cars of the future, then we're not going to be able to make stuff here in the United States of America.
Note: Willie Geist deftly demolished the president's excuse about hindsight being 20/20, pointing out that the warning to the Obama admin came prior to the Solyndra visit. That constituted not hindsight, but foresight. Ooops.
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Poor Mika
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 9:01am.
That must of hurt. The look on her face was classic pouting.
We Are The 53%
Another example of this
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 9:11am.
Another example of this mindset is liberals' stand on embryonic stem cell research.
They equate denial of government funding for it to prohibition of it.
Yowza
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 9:20am.
Someone better tell Eli Whitney to get out of the way and let the government invent his cotton gin.
I think the opposite
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 9:24am.
Had today's mindset existed, he would not have proceeded with his plan if he couldn't get government funding for it.
FYI
Submitted by StanO360 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:28am.
Unfortunately the government hasn't been behind the battery industry for the last 30 years they've been in front of it, blocking the way. The EPA has single handedly limited the US battery industry to it's existing infrastructure due to costs of environmental compliance.
With a lot of these industries, if the just made compliance easier. Not even changing the requirements, but "walking it through" the process, making it a priority, getting rid of silly obstacles (while helping with the ones that are not i.e. dumping mercury in the water table).
But I guess that makes to much sense for the simpletons in the White House.
FYI
Submitted by StanO360 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:27am.
Unfortunately the government hasn't been behind the battery industry for the last 30 years they've been in front of it, blocking the way. The EPA has single handedly limited the US battery industry to it's existing infrastructure due to costs of environmental compliance.
With a lot of these industries, if the just made compliance easier. Not even changing the requirements, but "walking it through" the process, making it a priority, getting rid of silly obstacles (while helping with the ones that are not i.e. dumping mercury in the water table).
But I guess that makes to much sense for the simpletons in the White House.