Solyndra - Clean Energy is Dirty
| How dare Republicans question the waste of a mere half a billion dollars on some sham company that was a big Zer0 donor. No criminal negligence and malfeasance with taxpayer dollars for political purposes here. |
Posted on 11/11/2011 4:18:23 PM PST by Driftwood1
New internal White House emails reveal that a scathing critique of Energy Secretary Steven Chu by a former Obama political advisor led to an extensive internal discussion about failures of the president's Energy Department at the highest levels of his administration.
The February 25, 2011 email that sparked the deliberations landed on West Wing desks just as the solar energy firm Solyndra was starting to show outward signs of financial trouble. It was sent by Dan Carol, a former Obama campaign staffer and clean energy advocate who was described by Obama's then-Chief of Staff Pete Rouse as someone whose views "reflect the President's general philosophy on energy policy."
Carol's four-page proposal to restructure the Energy Department included the blunt recommendation that Chu be fired, and that his leadership team also be replaced, calling it time for "serious changes, even if they are uncomfortable to make."
"I would respectfully suggest that the president be strongly encouraged to make major leadership changes as soon as possible," Carol wrote.
Carol also predicted the political fallout that would result from what he saw as inevitable failures of the Energy Department's now-embattled loan guarantee program. He made the dire predictions when advising that Obama replace Chu with someone who was not "too associated … with [the] Silicon Valley business elite."
"Not because they aren't talented," Carol writes, "but because that appointment will be caught up in the wave of GOP attacks that are surely coming over Solyndra and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors and have underperformed. No reason to fuel that coming storm, and believe me it will come."
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Carol also predicted the political fallout that would result from what he saw as inevitable failures of the Energy Department's now-embattled loan guarantees for big donors program.
There, fixed it.
Chu may have a PhD.... just piled higher and deeper
“but because that appointment will be caught up in the wave of GOP attacks that are surely coming over Solyndra and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors and have underperformed
Under performed? They lost 500 MILLION DOLLARS in a YEAR!
Geez...
| How dare Republicans question the waste of a mere half a billion dollars on some sham company that was a big Zer0 donor. No criminal negligence and malfeasance with taxpayer dollars for political purposes here. |
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Strategist Dan Carol is a leading catalyst and evangelist for new ideas and approaches to galvanize and build the Green New Deal, working with green businesses, foundations, governments and non-profits. Most recently, Carol served as the Content & Issues Director for the Obama for President Campaign, where he guided the launch of Obama’s NewEnergyforAmerica.com plan and the 2008 Democratic Platform, Listening to America.
In response to September 11th, Carol spearheaded the creation of The Apollo Alliance (www.apolloalliance.org), a growing strategic effort to promote a “moon mission” national commitment to energy independence and unite Americans of all political stripes in a common purpose. Before that, Carol was an environmental and energy budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a Presidential Management Fellow, and a trend consultant for the Congressional Institute for the Future.
A member of the Clinton Global Initiative and a co-founder of the Clean Economy Network, Carol teaches public policy at the University of Oregon.
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I’m sure the entire Food Stamp President’s administration is sorry about the clean energy program loan failures ... sorry that they were caught!
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