September 29, 2011
— Ace Video here. Here are some of the key bits:
Part of our plan is to make sure that as we create these jobs we create jobs in the future like the ones you're creating, jobs you can raise a family on, green jobs, jobs that will serve as a foundation for a stronger American economy. Which is why it's so important we invest in Solyndra and invest in what Solyndra is doing.
Can we invest more? I know they're bankrupt 'n all, but I really do want that stronger economy.
Not just to get us through today but to power our way to a much brighter tomorrow.You know, there was a 19th Century Scottish author and political reformer named Samuel Smiles. He once said and I think the quote is appropriate here, he said, “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."
Hope is like the sun, in that both seem to be about constructing naively optimistic forecasts about triumphs just around the corner.
Well, that's exactly, exactly what we're doing here today. We are journeying, in a sense, closer and closer to the sun...
Icarus just emailed me about journeying closer and closer to the sun. He doesn't recommend it.
... to a more solar powered America. And as we do, we're leaving a shadow of a less efficient, more damaging past behind us. And I'm really happy, along with the Secretary, to announce today that we've closed a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, more than half a billion dollars. This is the first in what the Secretary is going to be announcing the Department of Energy will be making available for more than $30 billion in loan guarantees the Recovery Act is providing and will provide to American companies that are leading the way to a new, clean energy future.The loan to Solyndra will allow you to build a new manufacturing facility and with it almost immediately generate 3000 new well paying construction jobs. And once your facility opens, there will be about 1000 permanent new jobs here at Solyndra and in the surrounding business community and hundreds more to install your growing output of solar panels throughout the country.
Let me interrupt Slow Joe to note that I suppose those 3,000 short-term construction jobs were created (and then of course un-created). What did those 3000 construction workers build?
Oh, wonderful things. Wonderful things, my friends.
It wasn’t just any factory. When it was completed at an estimated cost of $733 million, including proceeds from a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee, it covered 300,000 square feet, the equivalent of five football fields. It had robots that whistled Disney tunes, spa-like showers with liquid-crystal displays of the water temperature, and glass-walled conference rooms.“The new building is like the Taj Mahal,” John Pierce, 54, a San Jose resident who worked as a facilities manager at Solyndra, said in an interview.
The building, designed to make far more solar panels than Solyndra got orders for, is now shuttered, and U.S. taxpayers may be stuck with it....
Amid the still-unfolding postmortems, the factory stands as emblematic of money misspent and the Field of Dreams ethos that seemed to drive the venture, said Ramesh Misra, a solar-industry analyst in Los Angeles for Brigantine Advisors.
Seems to me that with that half-billion loan, plus the anticipation of a second half-billion, this venture socialism enterprise wasn't thinking much about economy and grinding out profits. They were more concerned with whistling robots.
Back to "Sheriff Joe," the guy who would keep a weather eye on our spending. You remember that, right? Obama appointed him point-man on making sure our stimulus dollars were wisely spent. "I've got my badge on," the retarded older man said.
The Hill, at least, remembers.
“Sheriff” Joe Biden’s remarks could come back to haunt him when it comes to Solyndra, the solar company that went bankrupt after winning a $535 million loan guarantee from 2009’s economic stimulus package.President Obama named his vice president the sheriff of the stimulus, and Biden’s duties were to ensure that no money was wasted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Back to the Sheriff of Strict Accounting.
It's important. It's important because these jobs are going to be permanent jobs.
Permanent...? In the sense that all eighth grade romances will live forever.
In that sense of "permanent" -- a childishly naive belief that nice feelings are enough to make things last forever -- sure, the jobs were "permanent."
These are the jobs of the future.
Jobs of the future? Dude, these aren't even the jobs of September.
You heard of that show Whitney? Whitney has avoided cancellation longer than these jobs.
These are the green jobs.
He's right about that. These are the Greenest Jobs in the World, jobs that produce precisely zero greenhouse emissions and have a carbon footprint of size triple zero.
The unemployed are just terrific "carbon sinks."
These are the jobs that won't be exported.
Again, he speaks the truth.
These are the jobs that are going to define the 21st Century...
I hope he's not right about this, but I fear he is.
... and the jobs that are going to allow America to compete and to lead like we did in the 20th Century.
Sure, during the period of 1930-1938. That's the 20th Century.
But beyond that, by doing this work you're also reducing carbon emissions just at the plant you're about to build by more than 100 metric tons, folks. That's the equivalent.
Got a little bonus, now that the entire venture is shuttered. Add a couple of metric tons.
I know you know it but the rest of America may not -- that's the equivalent of pulling 25 million cars off the road. They're exactly the kind of steps we need to take to make our air cleaner, to save money and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.To quote another famous person, Galileo, he once said...
You have to love Slow Joe's description of astronomer and polymath Galileo as "a famous person."
Shit yeah he's famous. Almost as famous as Paris Hilton!
... "The sun, with all the planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."Well, folks, there is still a whole lot more we can do with the sun and you're leading the way.
Yup. We can fleece billions from overburdened taxpayers, too.
And out there at Solyndra, you guys have figured it out. You've figured out how to harness the sun's power for a better, more efficient, more prosperous future for all of America and in the process you're creating more jobs.
I haven't seen an endorsement that embarrassing since Paul Krugman pimped Enron.
But Slow Joe was right -- Solyndra did figure it out, if by "it" you mean "running an Enron-style scam on the taxpayers."
Solyndra LLC had such steep financial problems in late 2010 that the company violated terms of its loan-guarantee agreement with the Department of Energy and technically defaulted on its $535 million loan, according to people familiar with the matter.The failed solar-panel maker, which is under numerous criminal and congressional investigations, ran so short of cash in December 2010 that it was unable to satisfy certain terms of its U.S. loan agreement, these people said. The agreement required Solyndra to provide $5 million in equity to a subsidiary building its factory but cash-flow problems prevented those payments.
WSJ's Ryan Tracy reports a new Congressional report says warnings about Solyndra's competitive abilities came out before the government awarded the company a $535 million loan guarantee and the company's subsequent collapse.The Energy Department ultimately restructured the loan agreement to help keep the company afloat and Solyndra continued to draw money from its loan.
Yup, Solyndra really figured it out.
FBI Said to Be Probing Solyndra for Possible Fraud
Now let's go back to Sheriff Joe's statement about another $30 billion in loans to just this sort of solid corporate citizen as part of its "stimulus" efforts.
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Watergate did not have a body count.
Obama sold weapons to a murderous criminal organization.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at September 29, 2011 01:31 PM (8y9MW)
Okay. That was funny.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at September 29, 2011 01:31 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 01:32 PM (fyOgS)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:32 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 29, 2011 01:33 PM (16lYZ)
Posted by: MissTammy at September 29, 2011 01:33 PM (SsG4J)
I'll probably go back to it tomorrow.
But the other stuff needs to be said, too.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at September 29, 2011 01:34 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:34 PM (UlUS4)
Permanent...? In the sense that all eighth grade romances will live forever.
Good analogy. My eighth-grade romance actually started in the sixth grade and lasted three years. The thing is, the girl involved never knew about this romance.
Sort of how these workers don't even know that they have jobs.
Posted by: FireHorse at September 29, 2011 01:35 PM (F5OMl)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 05:32 PM (UlUS4)
hey, that's what the guys at the bar call me! give me a drink and i'll do anything with anyone.
Posted by: oh bother (vivisect k1rwm) at September 29, 2011 01:36 PM (ggRof)
Posted by: Bumpkin at September 29, 2011 01:36 PM (W2qJe)
They don't even care if people know about it. They know they are safe from impeachanite.
Posted by: Vic at September 29, 2011 01:36 PM (M9Ie6)
"but to power our way to a much brighter tomorrow"
This from the dimmest bulb Edison ever tested.
Posted by: hutch1200 at September 29, 2011 01:36 PM (pZdFn)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:37 PM (rJVPU)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 29, 2011 01:37 PM (16lYZ)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 01:37 PM (fyOgS)
Posted by: UGAdawg at September 29, 2011 01:38 PM (H6JHE)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 01:38 PM (fyOgS)
Posted by: joeindc44 at September 29, 2011 01:38 PM (QxSug)
I sense a pattern.
Posted by: oblig. at September 29, 2011 01:39 PM (xvZW9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:39 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:39 PM (rJVPU)
I haven't seen an endorsement that embarrassing since Paul Krugman pimped Enron.
good one, Ace, good one. unfortunately, this will not be the last, either, i'm afraid
Posted by: pitchforksandpowder at September 29, 2011 01:40 PM (qxIgK)
The last time they did one of their phony "fair and balanced" debates the Dem kept saying but Boehner gives tax breaks to oil companies.
Nobody asked her to put up or shut up.
Posted by: Vic at September 29, 2011 01:40 PM (M9Ie6)
Chu is the designated fall guy. He'll "resign," and then the Center for American Progress will hire him at some outrageous salary to spout more of their bullshit.
Hide and watch.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at September 29, 2011 01:40 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 01:41 PM (fyOgS)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:41 PM (rJVPU)
Posted by: The Sock of Andrew Breitbart at September 29, 2011 01:42 PM (dja/g)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:42 PM (rJVPU)
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 29, 2011 01:42 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: runningrn at September 29, 2011 01:43 PM (0fUOB)
This is another example of corruption and cronyism rampant in our government. In Texas, there is another story about a Dallas business owner, who was involved in a civil dispute and paid millions of dollars to lawyers, and when he objected to their fees, they had a “friendly” judge seize all of his property, without any notice or hearing, and essentially ordered him to be an involuntary servant to the lawyers. The business owner has been under this “servant” order for 10 months.
http://www.lawinjustice.com has an explanation of this really disturbing case.. The frequency of instances like these seems to be increasing exponentially even though they get little media attention
Posted by: Harris at September 29, 2011 01:43 PM (s9N9c)
Posted by: EROWMER at September 29, 2011 01:43 PM (/ZKDI)
Hey Joe, I don't remember anyone electing you to be an investment banker. Because those guys tend to be pretty damn smart, and, well, nuf said.
As to Bob Beckel, I don't mind a guy who is on to provide the other side for like, dramatic tension and all, but a minimum level of competence is expected. He doesn't have it. He is a side of beef and it's obvious that even he doesn't buy the crap he's spewing.
Posted by: pep at September 29, 2011 01:43 PM (6TB1Z)
Icarus just emailed me about journeying closer and closer to the sun. He doesn't recommend it.
Epic! My favorite line in this entire post!
Posted by: runningrn at September 29, 2011 01:44 PM (0fUOB)
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 29, 2011 01:44 PM (bjRNS)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:44 PM (UlUS4)
I laughed out loud, and then I wept.
Posted by: toby928© at September 29, 2011 01:45 PM (GTbGH)
See a Harvard education is good for something!
Posted by: Hroth'ar at September 29, 2011 01:45 PM (i3+c5)
And Joe Biden said something stupid.....again.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 29, 2011 01:45 PM (jiVmv)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 29, 2011 01:45 PM (z/Mo8)
Posted by: The terrorist Hobbit formerly known as Donna at September 29, 2011 01:45 PM (5Wl/f)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:46 PM (UlUS4)
Icarus just emailed me about journeying closer and closer to the sun. He doesn't recommend it.
Word.
Posted by: Cahrles Jhonson at September 29, 2011 01:46 PM (c0A3e)
Remember where the title 'Sheriff' Joe came from? If I remember correctly, Obama gave a press conference and announced that VP Biden, aka Sheriff Joe, was going to be the point man on the Stimulus Bill, that is, Joe was going to make sure none of the Stimulus money would be wasted because he was tuff and smart and nobobdy messes with Joe. Ace should find the video of that statement and insert it in every post about Solyndra or the many Stimulus failures. Just as a reminder to how Obama's choices make him the SCOAMF that he is.
Posted by: hughie at September 29, 2011 01:46 PM (+56Bh)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:46 PM (rJVPU)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at September 29, 2011 01:46 PM (cbyrC)
I have an old friend who went to work for a "nonprofit" because it's noble and all. Their new digs are a hell of a lot nicer than mine, but what the hell, I'm only a scientist who spent a decade in higher ed getting edumacated.
Posted by: pep at September 29, 2011 01:47 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at September 29, 2011 01:47 PM (UU0OF)
For the safety of DC bereuacrats(?) they should close Fort Marcy Park. Just sayin'
BTW Maybe Nazi Pisslousy can affors her own 737 like she had when she was speaker. Instead of sloughing through 1st class w/her 19 relatives like the rest of us peons.
Posted by: hutch1200 at September 29, 2011 01:47 PM (pZdFn)
you're also reducing carbon emissions just at the plant you're about to build by more than 100 metric tons, folks.
that's the equivalent of pulling 25 million cars off the road.
This administration is all about innumeracy.
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 29, 2011 01:47 PM (16lYZ)
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: UGAdawg at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (H6JHE)
But ... but .... economic genius Joe Nocera said that Solyndra was the VICTIM of the Chinese making the exact same panels for 5 bucks a piece !
Posted by: kbdabear at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: © Sponge at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (UK9cE)
A nuclear plant I am familiar with was generating power at 1.3 cents per kw/hr.
Imagine if we had spent that $500M on a down payment for a nuke plant.
But it would not have paid off political friends.
Posted by: Vic at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 01:48 PM (rJVPU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:49 PM (UlUS4)
...jobs you can raise a family on, green jobs,...
Kinda like we used to have before Billy Jeff Cliton decided we needed to become a "service" economy instead of a manufacturing one?
This speech contains some industrial strength stoopid.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at September 29, 2011 01:50 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 29, 2011 05:45 PM (OGQrv)
i think i have some links to post....
Posted by: oh bother (vivisect k1rwm) at September 29, 2011 01:50 PM (ggRof)
that's the equivalent of pulling 25 million cars off the road.
Or two golf and fundraising trips on Air Force One
Posted by: kbdabear at September 29, 2011 01:50 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 01:50 PM (4CSeG)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:50 PM (UlUS4)
screw that. Did you see the damage it ALMOST caused the passenger shuttle when the computer malfunctioned and tried to take the people to the sun in Airplane II?!?
Posted by: © Sponge at September 29, 2011 01:51 PM (UK9cE)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 01:51 PM (4CSeG)
All kidding aside, the idea that this f***wit is next in line to lead the country is a cosmic joke. It has to be. Either that, or Ganesh is really pissed at us.
Posted by: pep at September 29, 2011 01:52 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Jimmuy at September 29, 2011 01:52 PM (ibeMV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:52 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at September 29, 2011 01:53 PM (6n8mm)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 29, 2011 01:53 PM (z/Mo8)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes - stealing something he saw here before at September 29, 2011 01:53 PM (jiVmv)
Posted by: buzz at September 29, 2011 01:53 PM (i27M5)
Posted by: Tesh at September 29, 2011 01:54 PM (cnjni)
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 01:54 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: joeindc44 at September 29, 2011 01:54 PM (QxSug)
I wonder if the subsidiary was PelosiCo, or something like that.
Posted by: Jaded and cynical at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (Zi+FQ)
Because shut up, that's why.
Posted by: Al Gore at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (6TB1Z)
Fuck you, scrunt: You want to steal from the factory owners who actually produce and give it to those who steal and cheat.
Posted by: Jimmuy at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (ibeMV)
Posted by: Iblis at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (9221z)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (z/Mo8)
He was my dad, I think.
Posted by: Joe Kinnock-Biden at September 29, 2011 01:55 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Lizzy Warren at September 29, 2011 01:56 PM (jiVmv)
Posted by: Flounder at September 29, 2011 01:56 PM (Kkt/i)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 01:56 PM (4CSeG)
that's the equivalent of pulling 25 million cars off the road.
...which is what they tried to do with Cash 4 Clunkers.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at September 29, 2011 01:56 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:57 PM (UlUS4)
Barky is going to make Clinton look like a piker when he starts raking in bucks post-presidency. The rest of us will be eating cold baked beans in our refrigerator boxes.
He should have the decency to move to Ireland like that little bald thief from Mexico.
Posted by: boniface ballers at September 29, 2011 01:57 PM (bPbwB)
Actually, I think that is the one thing that is absolutely guaranteed to make money. Naturally, it will be ignored.
Posted by: A random entrepeneur at September 29, 2011 01:57 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Galileo at September 29, 2011 01:58 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 01:58 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: joeindc44 at September 29, 2011 01:58 PM (QxSug)
Posted by: proudonkey at September 29, 2011 01:59 PM (NadeK)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 29, 2011 01:59 PM (OGQrv)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at September 29, 2011 01:59 PM (cbyrC)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at September 29, 2011 02:00 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: proudonkey at September 29, 2011 05:59 PM (NadeK)
No, just your pathetic little dwarf winkie.
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 02:00 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: chillin the most for Perry at September 29, 2011 02:00 PM (6IV8T)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at September 29, 2011 02:00 PM (cbyrC)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 02:00 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: Flounder at September 29, 2011 02:01 PM (Kkt/i)
I think the problem is that there are so many, they're so dang big, and he's only got one committee.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at September 29, 2011 02:01 PM (bjRNS)
Like a turd that not only won't flush, but insists on taking a stroll about the house and rifling through your DVDs.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:02 PM (4CSeG)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 02:02 PM (UlUS4)
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:02 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: joeindc44 at September 29, 2011 02:03 PM (QxSug)
and just wondering, but how many construction jobs would we create building new nuclear plants? Do the unions that help keep idiots like Biden in office have a problem with that kind of work?
Posted by: mallfly at September 29, 2011 02:03 PM (bJm7W)
119 ...Could Issa be dragging his feet on all of these scandals so they come to light closer to the election? I hope so.
Had the self-same thought. ...I hope so too.
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at September 29, 2011 02:03 PM (6n8mm)
No candy. There will be subpoenas and mug shots.
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:04 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:04 PM (4CSeG)
Posted by: nickless at September 29, 2011 02:05 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at September 29, 2011 02:05 PM (VbQ1q)
Posted by: oh bother (vivisect k1rwm) at September 29, 2011 02:05 PM (ggRof)
Posted by: Ben at September 29, 2011 02:05 PM (tEGzl)
So I want to thank you.
Posted by: ontherocks at September 29, 2011 02:06 PM (HBqDo)
well, unfortunately for everyone involved the Perry DOJ (or the Newt! DOJ) will be tasked with putting everyone involved behind bars. Right?
The empty building that once housed Solyndra would make a dandy prison. They could get the shower temperature just right for a prison raping.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOB at September 29, 2011 02:07 PM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:07 PM (iYbLN)
Whoo-fucking-boy!! That's like a lot, right? 'Cause when someone says "I smoked a metric ton of weed last weekend" you know they smoked a lot.
Gawd, this whole administration is staffed top to bottom with mouth-breathing retards. 'Cause I guarantee you the only way the word "metric" got in there is because some ass thought it would sound like more. (Yes, technically it is more. A whole fucking 200 pounds more. Fuckers could have just said 110 tons but they wanted to sound smart. And 110 is a little more exact which would put the lie to the fact they are just making this shit up and have no fucking clue how much carbon it would reduce.)
Posted by: Jimmuy at September 29, 2011 02:07 PM (ibeMV)
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at September 29, 2011 02:07 PM (+lsX1)
Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2011 02:08 PM (pawS5)
Let's have the Disney-whistling robots do the raping. Save some room and board.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:08 PM (4CSeG)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 02:08 PM (rJVPU)
The empty building that once housed Solyndra would make a dandy prison. They could get the shower temperature just right for a prison raping.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Tea Party SOBI like the way you think and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:08 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at September 29, 2011 02:09 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Ben at September 29, 2011 06:05 PM (tEGzl)
Thats the basic difference, Ben. Turning a profit makes you an exploiter of people. Wasting billions for a net gain of exactly zero makes you a leftard hero.
See the difference?
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 02:09 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 06:07 PM (iYbLN)
There is no lube in Obamanomics.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:09 PM (4CSeG)
That's gonna attract your class hobos.
Posted by: HeatherRadish is partying like it's 1982!! at September 29, 2011 02:09 PM (bho4j)
Biden is making some great soundbites for the GOP. Because there was also this little gem:
“Even though 50-some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that’s not relevant,” said the vice president. “What’s relevant is we’re in charge.”
Posted by: runningrn at September 29, 2011 02:10 PM (0fUOB)
Posted by: Stupid Well at September 29, 2011 02:10 PM (Kkt/i)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2011 02:10 PM (UlUS4)
They are useless cunts in every UK sense of the word. Fucking bastards, utter fucking bastards.
Posted by: Jack at September 29, 2011 02:11 PM (zKFOT)
Posted by: HeatherRadish is partying like it's 1982!! at September 29, 2011 06:09 PM (bho4j)
Meh. This is California. We got scads of vacant digs nicer than this.
Posted by: The Upper Crust of Hobo Society at September 29, 2011 02:11 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII at September 29, 2011 02:11 PM (kPT11)
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 02:12 PM (rJVPU)
Umm....I think that counts.
Pics or it never happened.
Good thing we have Time and Newsweak to document Obama.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:12 PM (4CSeG)
_________
Last one I saw, the liberal wench was insisting that Gov. Perdue's "let's cancel the elections" statement isn't a problem because Republicans haven't chosen a leader yet.
Still scratching my head about that one...
Posted by: Anachronda at September 29, 2011 02:12 PM (NmR1a)
97.....See my post at #25
Heh. I know.
I just think that Sherrif Joe needs a repeated phrase....like the SCoaMF, or something.
"Hey wait, Sheriff Joe where did the money go?"
Because right now, Obama is chanting 'Pass the Bill' so he can get even more!
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at September 29, 2011 02:13 PM (6n8mm)
BRRRRRRRRRILIANTER!
Posted by: giftogab at September 29, 2011 02:14 PM (SPVfc)
Each floor had two coffee bars.....one on each end of each floor. There was a margarita bar adjacent to a dance floor complete with disco ball. State-of-the art everything....furniture, everything.
They went belly-up not long after opening. One of the partners disappeared on his yacht in FL.
Jeebus......wonder if he was involved in Solyndra?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:14 PM (UOM48)
Umm....I think that counts.
Pics or it never happened.
Good thing we have Time and Newsweak to document Obama.
Posted by: sifty
My worst nightmare is I wake up and Obama is the gastroenteroligst. My second worst nightmare? I wake up and Biden is trying to stick that thing in my ear..
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:15 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at September 29, 2011 02:15 PM (cbyrC)
Posted by: melodicmetal at September 29, 2011 02:16 PM (9eTd5)
Posted by: s☺mej☼e at September 29, 2011 02:16 PM (mue7s)
Posted by: Arms Merchant at September 29, 2011 02:16 PM (kPT11)
__________
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Posted by: Richard C. Hoagland at September 29, 2011 02:17 PM (IrbU4)
I am so in the wrong industry. Should have majored in Bilking.
Posted by: HeatherRadish is partying like it's 1982!! at September 29, 2011 02:17 PM (bho4j)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 06:14 PM (UOM4
Let me guess. Even the receptionists sat in $800 Aeron chairs. That's a sure sign that unearned money is pouring into a company.
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at September 29, 2011 02:18 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:19 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at September 29, 2011 02:20 PM (4136b)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 05:31 PM (fyOgS)
He doesn't think so, in fact he went to LAW SCHOOL, which makes him smarter than you.
Peon.
Posted by: AmishDude at September 29, 2011 02:20 PM (73tyQ)
Nevermind that every single fucking prick that works in the White House got raises every year?
All you have to do is run an ad:
Last year, Obama spent over half a billion dollars--funneled to party insiders--on a solar dream that created 1200 jobs. Until they all got fired when it went bankrupt in September. That's over half a million dollars per lost job. All wasted.
How much did you get paid for your job last year?
Last year, Obama gave each and every person who worked for him over $10,000 in raises and bonuses. Your tax dollars he gave to his friends.
How much was your raise last year? Did you get a bonus for wasting millions?
Paid for by the Pissed Off Citizens Committee.
Posted by: Jimmuy at September 29, 2011 02:20 PM (ibeMV)
85...Way to dream big, you fucking tree-hugging queerbaits. For $733 million, somebody better create me a big-titty VaginaTech 3000 Fuck-Bot that doesn't make irritating noises.
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Noooo......stay away from those. They put the teeth in the wrong orifice.
Posted by: ConservativeMenAreJustHotter at September 29, 2011 02:22 PM (6n8mm)
Let me guess. Even the
receptionists sat in $800 Aeron chairs. That's a sure sign that
unearned money is pouring into a company.
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at September 29, 2011 06:18 PM (QKKT0)
To be fair, if anybody needs an Aeron chair, it's a receptionist.
Posted by: AmishDude at September 29, 2011 02:22 PM (73tyQ)
I don't get it. What's your beef?
Posted by: The MSM, Vigilant Watchdogs of Democracy, But Kind of Sleepy Right Now at September 29, 2011 02:22 PM (QKKT0)
Way to dream big, you fucking tree-hugging queerbaits. For $733 million, somebody better create me a big-titty VaginaTech 3000 Fuck-Bot that doesn't make irritating noises.
Every time I think liberals couldn't be stupider, they up their game.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 29, 2011 05:53 PM (z/Mo
Damn. That was hawt.
*fans self*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:24 PM (UOM48)
To be fair, if anybody needs an Aeron chair, it's a receptionist.
Posted by: AmishDude at September 29, 2011 06:22 PM (73tyQ)
She sits on a stack of old phone books in my office. And she better not wrinkle 'em.
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at September 29, 2011 02:24 PM (QKKT0)
That is what passes for economic knowledge in this administration.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 29, 2011 02:25 PM (E6FoU)
Posted by: © Sponge
Even if she put in references to Barney the Dinosaur, Dora the Explorer, and Sponge Bob, I'm sure that your daughter's speech would be far better than this mope's drivel.
Posted by: Cheri at September 29, 2011 02:25 PM (G+Wff)
Posted by: Jimmuy at September 29, 2011 06:20 PM (ibeMV)
This one comes close. Is anyone else seeing the issues with YouTube today? Geez...Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at September 29, 2011 02:26 PM (4136b)
She sits on a stack of old phone books in my office. And she better not wrinkle 'em.
What a guy
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 02:26 PM (iYbLN)
Nevermind that every single fucking prick that works in the White House got raises every year?
It goes along with their whole mode of thinking. For them, life is about getting a man on the inside of the citadels of power. Warren said it, you don't earn money on your own, you don't achieve something on your own. She said it because she's projecting. She only made money through having Ivy League Law School contacts and they think that's the way the rest of the world works. A secret handshake, knowing somebody who knows somebody, etc.
Posted by: AmishDude at September 29, 2011 02:26 PM (73tyQ)
Posted by: ErikW at September 29, 2011 06:24 PM (KZgw/)
(Code for hobo hunt in progress.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:27 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: chillin the most for Perry at September 29, 2011 02:27 PM (6IV8T)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:27 PM (4CSeG)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:30 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Bo, The Forgotten Dog at September 29, 2011 02:31 PM (iYbLN)
I assume you've been contacted by the RNC to be put on to the short list for Press Secretary in the new administration? You could tag team with Ann Coulter.
Posted by: MissTammy at September 29, 2011 02:32 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 29, 2011 02:33 PM (jiVmv)
Solyndra doesn't have a birth certificate?
Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 29, 2011 02:35 PM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: OCBill at September 29, 2011 02:35 PM (YJvVE)
The link above has connected all of the dots on Solyndra. Believe it or not, Van Jones and the Appollo group are connected. This plus Fast & Furious should be enough to get impeachment started.
Posted by: chillin the most for Perry at September 29, 2011 02:37 PM (6IV8T)
One time I was in the sun and I got so burned up I got these big blisters.
The shit that oozed out of them was smarter than Joke Biden.
Posted by: USS Diversity at September 29, 2011 02:38 PM (aD5Kx)
Oh, except that Obama was, is, and will always be a SCOAMF. I guess that's permanent.
Posted by: Tex at September 29, 2011 02:39 PM (DhStW)
Never in the course of human history have so few fleeced so many and failed so much in so little time.
The fail is piled so high and deep they all need hip boots scuba suits to wade swim through it.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 29, 2011 02:39 PM (HwE/1)
Posted by: Joe the Biden at September 29, 2011 02:40 PM (Y+DPZ)
You guys think big money was wasted on Solyndra?
You haven't seen shit. Wait until Hugo Chaves grabs the express elevator to eternal damnation. Zero and his crab lice will spend endlessly going to the funeral. Everybody in the Administration will be there, including the girls. Them along with every two bit dictator in the fucking world. All there with 5000 people, an aircraft carrier, and a military flyover to honor the "Great Leader".
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 02:41 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at September 29, 2011 02:42 PM (z/Mo8)
Never in the course of human history have so few fleeced so many and failed so much in so little time.
The fail is piled so high and deep they all need hip boots scuba suits to wade swim through it.
And an illegal auntie living in Boston off the taxpayers. Oooh! And now a drunk-drivin' illegal uncle.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:42 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 06:41 PM (4CSeG)
Actually, it's a musical comedy. Don't forget the Disney robots.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:43 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: fred flintstone at September 29, 2011 02:43 PM (mJBpL)
Never in the course of human history have so few fleeced so many and failed so much in so little time.
The fail is piled so high and deep they all need hip boots scuba suits to wade swim through it.
- - -
Some might call it unprecedented.
Posted by: Flounder at September 29, 2011 02:43 PM (Kkt/i)
Iranian and Cuban "advisers" will be thick as week-old menudo in Venusjuevos when Hugo goes to meet Teddy Kennedy.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 02:44 PM (4CSeG)
Wait....
Why do they need showers?
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 05:37 PM (rJVPU)
If you haven't figured it out by now they spent $500,000,000 dollars to build themselves a country club. I bet everyone involved has a shiny new yacht and a few Ferrari's too.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 29, 2011 02:46 PM (pdRb1)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 29, 2011 02:46 PM (7tMWs)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 29, 2011 02:46 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 29, 2011 06:46 PM (7tMWs)
Sure Joe, but if you like it cold you will have to go at night.
Posted by: Gun Dick Stroking Nutter at September 29, 2011 02:47 PM (OlN4e)
59
Biden is the Dan Quayle of the political world.
See how it works?
I went to a local comedy club here in Indy one night and saw some red headed Bostonian named Tom do his stuff. I don't even remember his last name. He was doing great when he shifted gears and switched to a (then topical) line of Dan Quayle jokes. Up until that point he had the entire audience in the palm of his hand. But suddenly -dead silence- ...He tried again.....(crickets).....
This is Indiana. Quayle was a Hoosier. This crowd had voted for Quayle to Congress before he got nominated for VP and was hacked by the Democrats. But even worse....the commedian knew after the first 3 jokes what the problem was, but he couldn't change course. His routine was set for a string of 8 Quayle jokes so he finished them in DEAD SILENCE. I'm talking 6 minutes of silent contempt.
I guess those jokes had flown fine with the 7 o:clock blue collar/democrat audience. But for the 9:30 self employed/business group the man died on stage. After the Quayle jokes were over he went on to some other material that got a giggle or two, but the damage was done. He'd already offended the entire audience and they were tolerating him at best, to the end of his set. I've never seen a comedian sweat through a 3 piece suite before, but Tom did. On stage, in front of about 250 people.
Posted by: MrObvious at September 29, 2011 02:48 PM (qwhLZ)
Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2011 02:49 PM (pawS5)
Posted by: steevy at September 29, 2011 05:41 PM (fyOgS)
That is kind of what I was thinking...while laughing of course.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 29, 2011 02:49 PM (pdRb1)
Posted by: TexasJew at September 29, 2011 02:50 PM (7tMWs)
I didn't know it was true.
Posted by: fozzy at September 29, 2011 02:51 PM (FEzSe)
Good analogy. My eighth-grade romance actually started in the sixth grade and lasted three years. The thing is, the girl involved never knew about this romance.
Her easily jimmied bedroom window and underwear drawer however.......
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 29, 2011 02:51 PM (6BvaE)
Posted by: blaster at September 29, 2011 02:51 PM (Fw2Gg)
Posted by: MTF at September 29, 2011 02:53 PM (gvWL9)
Posted by: Soona - Tearorrist at September 29, 2011 02:53 PM (ennsR)
Posted by: USA at September 29, 2011 02:54 PM (6Cjut)
Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2011 02:55 PM (pawS5)
There you go
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 29, 2011 02:55 PM (pdRb1)
Posted by: chemjeff @ texas roadhouse at September 29, 2011 02:56 PM (gl1op)
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at September 29, 2011 06:07 PM (iYbLN)
Ah, the subtle joys of a Fleet enema..
Posted by: TexasJew at September 29, 2011 02:57 PM (7tMWs)
Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2011 06:55 PM (pawS5)
No, it needs to be the new corporate headquarters for "Big Coal"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 29, 2011 02:58 PM (pdRb1)
Posted by: No Whining at September 29, 2011 02:59 PM (Tz9N4)
Posted by: fozzy at September 29, 2011 02:59 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: chemjeff @ texas roadhouse at September 29, 2011 03:01 PM (gl1op)
Iranian and Cuban "advisers" will be thick as week-old menudo in Venusjuevos when Hugo goes to meet Teddy Kennedy.
Posted by: sifty at September 29, 2011 06:44 PM (4CSeG)
Except for the SCOAMF and his family, I have two words: Target rich.
(I want the SCOAMF to be publically humiliated in our next election)
Posted by: Soona - Tearorrist at September 29, 2011 03:01 PM (ennsR)
Posted by: chemjeff @ texas roadhouse at September 29, 2011 03:04 PM (gl1op)
Posted by: chemjeff @ texas roadhouse at September 29, 2011 07:01 PM (gl1op)
Your puny non-subsidized brain would not be able to handle the brilliant answer to your question. .
Posted by: TexasJew at September 29, 2011 03:05 PM (7tMWs)
Posted by: chemjeff @ texas roadhouse at September 29, 2011 07:01 PM (gl1op)
If you worked at a plant with whistling robots, would you on day one bribe an electrician to stop the fucking whistling? I would.
Posted by: fozzy at September 29, 2011 03:06 PM (FEzSe)
Posted by: Shit Samuel Smiles Said at September 29, 2011 03:11 PM (Tz9N4)
Posted by: MrObvious at September 29, 2011 06:48 PM (qwhLZ)
I went to a comedy show earlier this year and sat through 3 painful "comedians" that had nothing to offer but Palin and teabag jokes. Ha, teabagger. Cuz that's cutting edge you know. Oh, and courageous!
Wait, am I on the right Biden thread? Hmmm.
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at September 29, 2011 03:16 PM (4136b)
Posted by: toby928© at September 29, 2011 03:26 PM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 29, 2011 03:36 PM (aRq7t)
When Biden said "these are the green jobs," he meant green as in money.
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 29, 2011 03:38 PM (BTPgV)
Posted by: Sheriff Joe at September 29, 2011 03:44 PM (9BtSu)
Posted by: The Amazing Joe Biden at September 29, 2011 03:46 PM (4136b)
Wait....
Why do they need showers?
Posted by: tasker at September 29, 2011 05:37 PM (rJVPU)
My best guess? If you're on the front end of polysilicon crystal manufacturing, the reactors they use require a specific chemical atmosphere which if breached basically becomes something nasty like liquid/gaseous sulfuric acid. I suspect the showers are for the purposes of saving your typical greenie's skin.
Posted by: Fritz at September 29, 2011 03:48 PM (FabC8)
Here is the boondoggle to me: solar panels are only viable when they artificially inflate the cost of competing energy sources. They have to be subsidized by someone. Since no one wants to take that risk financially, the American tax payer does it for them. Then, since no one in their right mind can install solar power without using the 20 year ROI model, the American tax payer subsidizes some schmuck to buy this less than efficient technology.
So now we have the American tax payer subsidizing a subsidized industry. Meanwhile our political friends and unions get rich, when we also subsidize.
Posted by: rd at September 29, 2011 04:05 PM (eS8+f)
How's that, now? Were the walls build out of CO2-derived materials, for which the energy came from non-fossil-fuel sources?
Or is this like government deficit math, where if you spend less than you might otherwise have spent in some alternative scenario, you get to count that as a reduction?
Posted by: JPS at September 29, 2011 04:12 PM (PIVor)
Last night, I got a robo poll call about replacing Biden with Hillary.
Seems the next step in this process is to make Biden out to look like a dummy, which should take less than a few hours for most any PRESSSSidential news crew to come up with a good gaffer or two -- enough to warrant tossing him under the bus.
I wonder if the WH has thought this through enough to also dump Fast & Furious, Solyndra, and who cares what else as Biden's fault so they can dump Biden and put Hillary in place now, rather than later... Hillary as VP would have a lot more time for campaigning than Hillary as SoS...
Plus, they could claim they are now clean as a whistle with Biden gone... Not that this would be true... All it has to do is work, truth doesn't matter to these folks any more than what Bill did with Monica mattered...
Posted by: drfredc at September 29, 2011 04:31 PM (CW+P0)
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