well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

Obama = troll of the century.

Too little, too late... But at least we have free healthcare for everyone...

Wait... that's not true either?

Well at least he hasn't started any new wars. Yeah, let's go with that.

OldManDownDRoad: Attention folks in Anonymous or WikiLeaks: We'd love to have a copy of this, splashed far and wide.

THIS.

OldManDownDRoad: Attention folks in Anonymous or WikiLeaks: We'd love to have a copy of this, splashed far and wide.

And this... because the media simply won't do their jobs anymore...

Campaign Trail...

"Transparency, citizens! I promise it!"

[Repeat every election cycle.]

Threatens but won't.

Well, it's about GD time. Turn on the lights and watch the roaches and pigs scatter. Good for Obama.

Like when Eric "The Government Can't Create Jobs" Cantor asked for a bunch of high-speed rail money for central Virginia?

Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

Void_Beavis: OldManDownDRoad: Attention folks in Anonymous or WikiLeaks: We'd love to have a copy of this, splashed far and wide.

And this... because the media simply won't do their jobs anymore...

Amen on both counts

Yay, so we all get to see that Ron and Rand Paul requested a few billion for their personal pet projects

/Its not FIAT currency when we use it!

Farxist: well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

You mean everyone but Bush and the GOP run DoE, who started the deal and tried to conditionally approve the loan right before Obama took office in January 2009?

Ooppssss ... they don't talk about that on right wing radio and chain emails, do they? This is all teh Fartbongo'z korrupshun.

sprawl15: Obama = troll of the century.

He really is the first troll President, isn't he?

I would love to hear a (non-trolling) argument against this.

Farxist: well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

Except the private investors who put in over a billion.

ikapoz: I would love to hear a (non-trolling) argument against this.

Because Socialism.

sprawl15: Obama = troll of the century.

Best republican out there

Saber rattling. You know, the kind that come in those fruity cocktails.

PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

This, this and this.

MFAWG: sprawl15: Obama = troll of the century.

He really is the first troll President, isn't he?

I had a feeling he was, but throwing Trump under the bus while releasing his birth certificate to celebrate killing bin Laden sealed the deal.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Well, it's about GD time. Turn on the lights and watch the roaches and pigs scatter. Good for Obama.

Same thing happened in my kitchen last night. Roaches and pigs everywhere.

I thought earmarks were the things in the budget that Obama was going to go after with a scalpel and not a hatchet.

Why is this still an issue 3 years later, it seems that Bush tried to do the right thing in this regard....but how can we pass blame onto him for it not being done?

Pincy: ikapoz: I would love to hear a (non-trolling) argument against this.

Because Socialism.Ancient Aliens

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

This, this and this.

AND THAT

PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

I am surprised by that. I know a few people that work there, they must be great engineers but I seriously wonder how they tie their shoes.

Giltric: I thought earmarks were the things in the budget that Obama was going to go after with a scalpel and not a hatchet.

He's not trying to cancel them altogether, he wants to make them public, to keep disingenuous, unaccountable a-holes from doing the very same things secretly that they pound on tables and decry in public. There's really no compelling argument against this.

Cutting unnecessary spending=Cutting Pork
Cutting Pork=Going Kosher
Going Kosher=Becoming Jewish
Becoming Jewish=Israel

Ergo, Ipso facto, etc etc, Israel is behind this whole thing.

/am I doing it right?

Unpossible. Obama eliminated earmarks. Remember the Stimulus bill - no earmarks there.

Barricaded Gunman: There's really no compelling argument against this.

Anavrinman: At what point are we allowed to arrest all of them? Congress, House, President?

When they commit criminal acts.

Get the bill going to force the Republicans to vote it down, knowing all along it has no chance?

Yep, classic troll.

Obama needs the next election to be him vs. Congress and their 9% approval rating.

InmanRoshi: Farxist: well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

You mean everyone but Bush and the GOP run DoE, who started the deal and tried to conditionally approve the loan right before Obama took office in January 2009?

Ooppssss ... they don't talk about that on right wing radio and chain emails, do they? This is all teh Fartbongo'z korrupshun.

I don't know if Solyndra was a bad company from the start.

But I do know that directly underwriting a manufacture is a bad idea.

Support for solar power companies should have gone out as loan guarantees for installations. Underwriting at $3/watt installed AMERICAN PRODUCED solar panels would help drive demand.

The whole idea of a federal loan guarantee was to reduce the interest rates demanded by lenders. This is not a horrible idea in itself; it just needs to be spread out over more loans. If you could also get every state to require net metering then every large building would sprout a few kilowatts of panels in a few years.

I wonder how busy the Navy CB's are these days. I think they should be able to install a few gigawatts of solar around military bases without much trouble, and possibly work in DARPA or DOE as the muscle behind testing out new solar technologies.

I alone am best: PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

I am surprised by that. I know a few people that work there, they must be great engineers but I seriously wonder how they tie their shoes.

They're all autistic. They my buy their underwear at K-Mart, but they can count matches that fall out of a pack with a glance.

PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

They publish the budget when it is passed, both hard copy and online. It's just that by that time the damage is already done.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

/RIP George

Lt. Cheese Weasel
Well, it's about GD time. Turn on the lights and watch the roaches and pigs scatter. Good for Obama.

* Solyndra

* GM

* GE

* John Doerr - 1%'er, donated about $800,000 to Democrats since 2000, received over half a billion in grants

* Steve Westly - 1%'er, raised over $500,000 for the president's campaign. received $510 million in stimulus grants

* Serious Materials Robin Roy, a Serious executive, is married to Cathy Zoi. Cathy was appointeed to the Energy Department's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) by obama just before Serious Materials received $584,000 in stimulus cash.

Yup, lets turn on the lights on payoffs and earmarks alright.

Void_Beavis: Too little, too late... But at least we have free healthcare for everyone...

Wait... that's not true either?

Well at least he hasn't started any new wars. Yeah, let's go with that.

/ Yet ...ftfy

wildcardjack: InmanRoshi: Farxist: well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

You mean everyone but Bush and the GOP run DoE, who started the deal and tried to conditionally approve the loan right before Obama took office in January 2009?

Ooppssss ... they don't talk about that on right wing radio and chain emails, do they? This is all teh Fartbongo'z korrupshun.

I don't know if Solyndra was a bad company from the start.

But I do know that directly underwriting a manufacture is a bad idea.

Support for solar power companies should have gone out as loan guarantees for installations. Underwriting at $3/watt installed AMERICAN PRODUCED solar panels would help drive demand.

The whole idea of a federal loan guarantee was to reduce the interest rates demanded by lenders. This is not a horrible idea in itself; it just needs to be spread out over more loans. If you could also get every state to require net metering then every large building would sprout a few kilowatts of panels in a few years.

I wonder how busy the Navy CB's are these days. I think they should be able to install a few gigawatts of solar around military bases without much trouble, and possibly work in DARPA or DOE as the muscle behind testing out new solar technologies.

Nellis AFB might be entirely powered by solar now. I think they had a huge solar project going on out there.


/Solar or an element 115 reactor...you never know.

wildcardjack: InmanRoshi: Farxist: well, it would have stopped Obama wasting $500M on Solyndra since every one else knew it was a bad investment.

You mean everyone but Bush and the GOP run DoE, who started the deal and tried to conditionally approve the loan right before Obama took office in January 2009?

Ooppssss ... they don't talk about that on right wing radio and chain emails, do they? This is all teh Fartbongo'z korrupshun.

I don't know if Solyndra was a bad company from the start.

But I do know that directly underwriting a manufacture is a bad idea.

Support for solar power companies should have gone out as loan guarantees for installations. Underwriting at $3/watt installed AMERICAN PRODUCED solar panels would help drive demand.

The whole idea of a federal loan guarantee was to reduce the interest rates demanded by lenders. This is not a horrible idea in itself; it just needs to be spread out over more loans. If you could also get every state to require net metering then every large building would sprout a few kilowatts of panels in a few years.

I wonder how busy the Navy CB's are these days. I think they should be able to install a few gigawatts of solar around military bases without much trouble, and possibly work in DARPA or DOE as the muscle behind testing out new solar technologies.
/ DARPA .....YES DOE...... NO WAY!

Rindred: I alone am best: PsyRat: Why stop with just Congress? Why not the entire federal government?

/well, with the exception of select DoD projects
//Skunk Works does some mighty fine work.

I am surprised by that. I know a few people that work there, they must be great engineers but I seriously wonder how they tie their shoes.

They're all autistic. They my buy their underwear at K-Mart, but they can count matches that fall out of a pack with a glance.

I knew a guy like that when I was in the Navy. Handheld pocket calculators were still a new enough item that they were still a novelty of sorts (yes, I'm old). You could call out a random string of numbers and functions as you entered them into the calculator, and before you could hit enter, he would have the correct result nearly every time. And more often than not, he had his shoes on the wrong feet or his pants inside out.