republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

FlashHarry: republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

I was going to say "reckless and reactionary" behavior, but your characterization is more PC.

FlashHarry: republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

It's a sad day indeed that the US military is seen as having a liberal stance on an issue compared to the current Republican groupthink. Say what you will about the Solyndra scandal, but why wouldn't the military want the ability to generate power on the battlefield for our high tech weaponry without having to depend on tankers full fuel being brought into the combat arena?

NuttierThanEver: Say what you will about the Solyndra scandal, but why wouldn't the military want the ability to generate power on the battlefield for our high tech weaponry without having to depend on tankers full fuel being brought into the combat arena?

Isn't that why we fought the commies in the first place?

No problem. They'll just cut the funding.

Did the military have anything to do to keep Solyndra from going bankrupt? I guess I don't see the connection between the two.

Solyndra cooks their books, democrats pour money into them so they can crow about being green, Solyndra goes belly up, democrats formally in the corner now scatter like roaches.

Dems now blame reps for wanting to see if there were insider trading deals or kickbacks?

EnviroDude: Did the military have anything to do to keep Solyndra from going bankrupt? I guess I don't see the connection between the two.

Solyndra cooks their books, democrats pour money into them so they can crow about being green, Solyndra goes belly up, democrats formally in the corner now scatter like roaches.

Dems now blame reps for wanting to see if there were insider trading deals or kickbacks?


Yeah let me know when Republicans are willing to allow a full investigation into Halliburton's activities during the Bush years. Hell the Blackwater shiat alone makes the Solyndra allegations seem like the chump change that they are.

The Republicans don't give a flying fark about the US Military.

The Republicans only care about making sure that the defense industry continues to get their corporate welfare.

The Navy also held its annual Naval Energy Forum in October under the theme "Creating Spartan Energy Warriors."

This makes the project sound a lot more awesome than it has any right to be.

EnviroDude: Solyndra cooks their books

Citation? From what I understand, they didn't "cook their books" but rather succumbed to rapidly dropping prices in the cost of solar energy tech, primarily driven by cheaper hardware coming out of China.

EnviroDude: Did the military have anything to do to keep Solyndra from going bankrupt? I guess I don't see the connection between the two.

Solyndra cooks their books, democrats pour money into them so they can crow about being green, Solyndra goes belly up, democrats formally in the corner now scatter like roaches.

Dems now blame reps for wanting to see if there were insider trading deals or kickbacks?

WTF - you're not making ANY sense at all. In fact, I think you're just one of those right-wing activists that comes onto Fark just to maintain your fascist propaganda.

Go away, troll. You're a damned PINKO, and should feel bad.

The nuclear industry is getting 35 BILLION in guaranteed loans. I wonder why no one seems to mention those.

The GOP is as odds with DoD programs enabled and pushed by a Democrat administration to build a market for their private sector pet projects? Shocking.

When you approach every issue as an "us vs. them" situation, it's easy to forget what the goals were. Congress hasn't thought about where the country is heading in a longtime.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: The Republicans don't give a flying fark about the US Military.

The Republicans only care about making sure that the defense industry continues to get their corporate welfare.

The Republicans don't give a flying...

um.. yeah, this

olddinosaur: Hogwash.

Solyndra makes a product that costs too much and doesn't work.

That is why they are belly--up.

I'm quite sure the product works, but generating electricity from the sun is a commodity, so the lowest cost/watt generated panels wins the bid. Solyndra didn't anticipate the drop in the prices for solar panels coming from China.

They'll just suppress the cognitive dissonance as usual.

That article was kind of reaching a little bit.

Herbie555: Everyone mentioning the massive drop in prices for solar panels from China is omitting one key point:

Those prices are ARTIFICIALLY low due to massive subsidy from the Chinese government. We're talking BILLIONS in subsidies.

Everything from China are massively subsidized by the government. It's a huge ponzi scheme. But until that bubble bursts, those trying to compete legitimately will get killed. I've put 2020 as the date when China pops. I may be too generous. It could be as soon as 2015 (and if other countries are smart, they'll play economic warfare with China to help push that over the edge).

FlashHarry: republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

I would say that the thread was done in one.

Whoops.

Diogenes: FlashHarry: republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

I was going to say "reckless and reactionary" behavior, but your characterization is more PC.

NuttierThanEver: FlashHarry: republican overreaching leads to unintended consequences? the hell you say?

It's a sad day indeed that the US military is seen as having a liberal stance on an issue compared to the current Republican groupthink. Say what you will about the Solyndra scandal, but why wouldn't the military want the ability to generate power on the battlefield for our high tech weaponry without having to depend on tankers full fuel being brought into the combat arena?

Three swings, Three misses.

You cannot be blamed though, because TFA analysis was so off. It is glaringly obvious to me and every conservative that I know that if unicorn farts were real and if you could power a tank or bomber with them, and they were 100% green in everyway.....we would have absolutely no problem with the military or anyone else using them as fuel.

What we object to with solyndra is not that the Government necessarily chose to promote alternative fuels, but rather that they made the following errors:

1- They chose to invest primarily in companies owned by friends
2- Those companies had poor business plans which appear in retrospect to be based primarily on free government cash instead of actual sales
3- The loans were used a campaign commercials
4- The publics money was poorly monitored, with political leverage used to shortcut or circumvent normal spending safeguards.

I readily admit that there are probably some conservatives somewhere who are arguing that no one should use solar. I would also submit that I can go to my local starbucks and by swinging a dead cat I could strike no less than three liberals who fervently believe that forced sterilizations and restrictions in food rations should be used to reduce the world population top a sustainable level.