OBAMA FAILED ENERGY AGENDA AT THE PEOPLES EXPENSE

The Obama administration did not learn ANYTHING from the half BILLION dollars of tax payer money lost never to be returned from the idiotic loan given to Solyndra Inc., the California solar panel maker that went bankrupt after receiving the money. Even as reports are surfacing that Solyndra was in financial straights and beginning the slide toward bankruptcy as Obama pushed to get the loan through so Biden could announce it.

Now we are being told that another BILLION dollars is being loaned to solar projects. A $727 MILLION dollar loan to build a solar tower and another $337 MILLION dollars to build a solar plant near Phoenix, Arizona. There are hundreds of other alternative energy companies that are working with more viable forms of energy like clean coal, nuclear etc. but Obama's fascination with solar energy is making it the Energy Departments priority and the means to waste billions in loans of tax payer money.

As the heat is rising with more revelations coming every day about just how bad the Solyndra loan was and all of the ramifications it is and will bring to Obama and the administration as the loan was obviously pushed for a PR campaign for Obamas pet energy project inspite of warnings that it was a bad loan risk, one would think the LAST thing the administration would want to be made public are more risky loans to solar energy companies.

The arrogance being shown in order to push an agenda with an attitude that the administration is above the fray and can do whatever it wants to push the agenda regardless of the consequences or waste of tax payer dollars is beyond reprehensible and bordering on criminal. The investigation into Solyndra is moving into a criminal investigation and it remains to be seen just how involved Obama and others in the administration were in the affair.

Legalities, investigations, common sense and even the look of some sort of intelligence matters little if at all when Obama sets his mind on an agenda and uses his office to push that agenda. What does he care if wasting billions in tax payer money for companies who are questionable at best. After all according to Obama its his money not ours and he as a result can do with it what he wants even if it is illegal and immoral in the waste and abuse.

I am reminded of something Richard Nixon said during the famous interviews with David Frost. When questioned about the illegal activities Nixon participated in during the Watergate nightmare, Nixon told Frost when, "the President does it, it's not illegal." He followed the answer by stating he had realized that he was the only one who believed that. Obama is following the Nixon example in thinking anything he does as President is okay regardless of legalities or whether it meets any Constitutional muster.

Ken Taylor