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The agenda of pushing "green energy" as opposed to fossil fuels has underscored a lot of this deserved criticism of the administration. Loans to donors of ill fated companies versus postponed decisions costing jobs and resources in oil and gas. Also attempts to cover up the impact of overegulaion on coal industry jobs.

This thread was boring as shit 5 months ago, why is it still being boring as shit on the first page of the Suque.

Typical Raw Dogg - outraged that people notice the rampant corruption in the Obama administration.

As usual, Congress is inconsistent. If you going to take these types of tax breaks away, then do it for all oil companies, but they are talking about the top 5.. Why not the top 6? The top 10? All?. And while we are at it, let's take the tax breaks off the table for all industries?

Let's suppose we did this, what we do with the money? Make the deficit lower? I think not. Pay off the deficit? Don't think so?

Spend the money on other crap? History says this is the correct answer.

I wonder why no one is talking about this...

Justice accused of withholding records on Kagan's role in healthcare defense
By Sam Baker - 11/22/11 02:03 PM ET

The Justice Department withheld records about Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s role in healthcare reform, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said Tuesday.

Smith pressed Attorney General Eric Holder to provide documents and witnesses about Kagan’s time as solicitor general and her role in preparing to defend President Obama’s healthcare reform law in court. Republicans have clamored for Kagan to recuse herself when the Supreme Court takes up a case challenging the law.

Smith said in a letter to Holder that the Justice Department has refused to comply with his requests for documents and interviews about Kagan’s involvement. But the department later publicly released emails that his inquiry covered, Smith said.

I would call it "fair & balanced." But that's just me.

Back to the OP, I never knew Issa made big time $$ as the inventor of the Viper alarm among other car security devices. I remember that thing back in the day. It was his actual voice that said "Please step away from the car".

Interesting biography for Issa including the Military, working under Wesley Clark's command, auto theft, a brother in jail, potential arson etc.

Cue PaulUMD telling us we must not listen to him, because he's not a perfect representative of conservatism. Paul, many cons remember the aphorism, "Let he who is without sin live in glass houses."*
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*at least, that's how I remember GWB putting it. :)

Do you understand the difference between someone in the private sector investing in a risky venture, and the government "investing" in a risky venture?*
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*scare quotes around "investing," because the government doesn't actually have any money of its own to "invest" in risky ventures - instead it confiscates money from citizens who likely would not approve of the "investment" of their money in the risky venture.

More on Solyndra.
Classic case of anti business government making bad business decisions.

Seriously how many small businesses get 600 million dollar grants?