GOP Cops Raid the Green Casino - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

In a shrewd political move, GOP candidate Mitt Romney has called for an investigation into federal loans to luxury carmakers Fisker and Tesla. While the investigation is unlikely to turn up anything illegal, what Romney’s investigation will keep reminding Americans is that the scandal is legal.

For two years, the Obama administration has been in the Green Casino betting taxpayer billions on its millionaire pals’ pie-in-the-sky schemes. From Al Gore’s Fisker to Jeffrey Immelt’s GE to Steve Westly’s Solyndra to Russian Alexei Mordashov’s Severstal, Obama has used the public piggy bank to finance “the fun stuff,” as Veep Biden put it to Time magazine.