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Another scandal for Obama

Posted: Sep 16, 2011

First there was Fast and Furious.

Then there was Solyndra.

Now there is LightSquared.

Three high-level scandals that involve allegations of cover-ups inside the Obama administration.

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Something out of nothing - Keep trying

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LightSquared said the record shows it hasn't received favors.

"Any suggestion that LightSquared has run roughshod over the regulatory process is contradicted by the reality of eight long years spent gaining approvals," LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja said in a prepared statement. The key approvals for its project were made during the Republican administration of George W. Bush, Ahuja said. Further evidence is that the government asked for more tests of LightSquared's technology just this week, and that the company wasn't allowed to speak in its own defense at the Armed Services hearing, he said.

"It's time Washington politicians stop using LightSquared as a pinata," Ahuja said.

Solyndra is a big enough fiasco.... - hmmm

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Of course Obama is Teflon, and nothing seems to "stick" to him.

Teflon - Alice

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That's a very interesting analogy. It reminds me. Teflon seems to be impossible to "sell" these days, even if it's just a coating on a beautiful, awesome background.

(In my case it was Teflon-coated fabric, a beautiful fabric, but rejected due to the Teflon)

re: Teflon - hmmm

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I think there are some people who stay up nights thinking of new ways to scare us.

Teflon
Aluminum
Transfats

I could go on.

How about we just accept the fact that most of us won't make it out of here alive... :P

Another blind Obama worshipper - sm

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It is amazing to me how some of you are so willing to give Obama a free pass on EVERYTHING!!!

Yup-we're trained to know a bad dictator when we hear one! - Dish

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He is our dictator and there will be so much fraud during the 2012 election that he'll be dictating until the country is a solid field of the poor he loves so much. Free pass for everything for sure. Can you imagine the uproar if Bush had killed Osama? Wait til his movie comes out just before the election. Any one got ideas who should play Obama?

See message. - sm

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"The key approvals for its project were made during the Republican administration of George W. Bush," Ahuja said.

Of course we should just take his word for it. - hmmm

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Why not.. no worse than your - Fox News sources nm

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One Question - sm

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WHO APPROVED THE LOAN?

A: Bush Administration
B: Obama Administration

Question #2 - sm

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Under whose watch was it when the World Trade Center was brought down on 09/11?

Question #3. On whose watch was it when Bin Laden was brought down?

Question #4 - hmm

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Who had a chance to bring down bin Laden prior to 9/11/01?

Hint: His name doesn't begin with a Bush.

Hindsight is 20/20. - oldtimer

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Question #5 - sm

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Why haven't you answered question #1?

Obama pressured OMB to sign off on it. - hmmm

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The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s factory, newly obtained e-mails show.

The Silicon Valley company, a centerpiece in President Obama’s initiative to develop clean energy technologies, had been tentatively approved for the loan by the Energy Department but was awaiting a final financial review by the Office of Management and Budget.

The August 2009 e-mails, released exclusively to The Washington Post, show White House officials repeatedly asking OMB reviewers when they would be able to decide on the federal loan and noting a looming press event at which they planned to announce the deal. In response, OMB officials expressed concern that they were being rushed to approve the company’s project without adequate time to assess the risk to taxpayers, according to information provided by Republican congressional investigators.

Solyndra collapsed two weeks ago, leaving taxpayers liable for the $535 million loan.

One e-mail from an OMB official referred to “the time pressure we are under to sign-off on Solyndra.” Another complained, “There isn’t time to negotiate.”

“We have ended up with a situation of having to do rushed approvals on a couple of occasions (and we are worried about Solyndra at the end of the week),” one official wrote. That Aug. 31, 2009, message, written by a senior OMB staffer and sent to Terrell P. McSweeny, Biden’s domestic policy adviser, concluded, “We would prefer to have sufficient time to do our due diligence reviews.”

White House officials said Tuesday that no one in the administration tried to influence the OMB decision on the loan. They stressed that the e-mails show only that the administration had a “quite active interest” in the timing of OMB’s decision.

“There was interest in when a decision would be made because of its impact on whether an event involving the vice president could be scheduled for a particular date or not, but the loan guarantee decision was merit-based and made by career staffers at DOE,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

It's coming up on an election year... what a surprise - anon

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they're gonna make mountains out of molehills for the next year. *shrugs*

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