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Green investment bank should make taxpayers see red

This seems to be the apotheosis of government waste. Despite repeated warnings from federal watchdogs, it grows and grows. Congress authorized $38.5 billion in LGP loans for 2008 and 2009 — four times what the Department of Energy had requested. DOE has made 18 loan guarantees or “conditional” loan guarantees, worth almost $16 billion, to green energy boondoggles. In its 2011 budget, the Obama administration is asking for the authority to make $2 billion more in wholly subsidized loan guarantees to green energy companies.

This makes no sense economically. It would be laughable were this scam not bordering on criminal waste. It is Washington at its worst.

Which Republicans will stand up to support this? Better yet, which Republican will stand up to condemn the program and vow to kill it?