Senior White House officials warned about and deeply enmeshed in discussions of Solyndra - The Washington Post

A Silicon Valley investor and senior administration officials warned the White House to reconsider having President Obama visit a solar start-up company because of its mounting financial problems, saying he might be embarrassed later.

“A number of us are concerned that the president is visiting Solyndra,” California investor and Obama fundraiser Steve Westly wrote to Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett in May 2010. “Many of us believe the company’s cost structure will make it difficult for them to survive long term. . . . I just want to help protect the president from anything that could result in negative or unfair press.”
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But Obama did visit Solyndra in May 2010, touting it in a national news conference as an “engine of economic growth” and a model of his administration’s $80 billion stimulus-funded investment in clean-energy technologies and companies.

President Obama told George Stephanopolous in a live ABC News/Yahoo interview Monday afternoon that he doesn’t regret supporting or visiting Solyndra and is glad the administration backed a portfolio of clean-energy companies.

Rushing Headlong over the Cliff

When it comes to America’s energy policy, we are continuing our headlong rush, like lemmings over a cliff, to self-extinction. September 30 was the deadline by which the Department of Energy needed to get the remaining billions in stimulus funds out the door. Apparently, no one learned any lessons from the Solyndra scandal.

Shoveling $4.7 billion in stimulus funds to four solar projects is a big issue being covered by the national media. In two little states, the lemming analogy is still relevant, though under reported.

Climate Common Sense: University-Climate Debates restricted to two "For" teams!

The idea that the mindset that caused the University's banning of different viewpoints on Campus would extend to the peer review process obviously was not worth mentioning. The restriction of academic freedom to debate a subject where the majority of the population believes the scientists are wrong underlines the breath-taking arrogance of these academics and should make graduates ashamed of their alma mater and the new depths to which it has sunk.