[Politico] Solyndra executives repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment this morning as House lawmakers pressed them to answer questions about the company's financial collapse and any hopes of repaying their $535 million federal loan guarantee.
"While I hope to have an opportunity to assist this committee in the future, on the advice of my attorney, I must respectfully decline to answer any questions," Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison told Energy and Commerce oversight subpanel Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), who opened the questioning.
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Bet we got some folks that could get the answers out of them.
The newest Obama Administration scandal-de-jour, LightSquared, has quickly escalated to involve potentially "guided" testimony to two separate Congressional Committees. Additionally, two witnesses have confirmed that the White House pressured them to alter testimony in favor of LightSquared, a Virginia broadband provider whose executives also made very large Democrat Party campaign contributions.
The White House's fingerprints on the LightSquared issue extend beyond a significant sentence or two revision suggested to Shelton and Russo, which to their credit both men rejected.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), Chairman of the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, also raised a red flag after review of written testimony to his Sub-Committee uncovered a remarkable irregularity.
In a statement released to A Line of Sight and The Daily Beast, who first broke the LightSquared scandal, Rep. Broun said, "I was troubled to note that at the Science, Space and Technology Committee's recent hearing on the company's potential interference to GPS, four of the five Administration witnesses
National Coordination Office;
DOT;
NOAA;
NASA had identical language in their written testimony reflecting the administration's view of the LightSquared project. The language diminished the otherwise blunt assessments the witnesses articulated during the hearing when pressed by committee members."
[Real Clear Politics] "Now the Republicans, you know when I, I talked about this earlier in the week. They said 'well, this is class warfare.' You know what? If asking a billionaire to pay their fair of taxes. To pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what? I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm a warrior for the middle class. I'm happy to fight for the middle class," President B.O. said at the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati, OH.
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Please stop fighting for me. You aren't helping.
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By destroying our IRAs and 401Ks and causing gas to go through the ceiling, bailing out shifty bankers with our taxes? Please explain because I don't get it.
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I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm...
Gotta get a new keyboard for that teleprompter.
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[The Hill] Democrats opposed the GOP bill en masse because it partially offsets $3.65 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a $1.5 billion cut to a separate Department of Energy manufacturing loan program.
"The bill the House will vote on tonight is not an honest effort at compromise. It fails to provide the relief that our fellow Americans need as they struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of floods, wildfires and hurricanes, and it will be rejected by the Senate," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... (D-Nev.) said in a statement Thursday night before the House vote.
"I was optimistic that my House Republican colleagues would learn from their failure yesterday and move towards the middle. Instead, they moved even further towards the Tea Party."
Reid said the Senate was ready to stay in session next week, potentially canceling its scheduled recess. The House bill would fund the government through Nov. 18.
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From the same source: The Senate on Friday rejected a House spending bill to keep the government funded, raising the likelihood lawmakers could cancel their recess and stay in Washington next week.
U.S. District Court judges aren't known for using inflammatory language in deciding the weighty issues that come before them on the federal bench. So it was remarkable to read the scorching indictment of a federal environmental agency and two of its scientists last week by Judge Oliver W. Wanger. (See also Washington Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold's detailed look at the case on Page 30.) The case concerns how the government should manage California water supplies and at the same time seek to preserve the delta smelt, an allegedly endangered species of minnow-like fish.
Big Green environmentalists claim the delta smelt is threatened with extinction by diversion of water from the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers to supply farms in California's Central Valley and cities in Southern California. Those diversions are handled by the Central Valley Project, a Depression-era federal water project designed to move water from California's northern area to its arid southern region. The issue before Wanger was where Department of Interior officials should set boundaries between the fresher water of the rivers the fish prefer and the saltier waters from the San Francisco Bay. The 2-inch-long fish mainly breeds in marshy estuary areas where the fresh and salt water mix.
By diverting more fresh water for the delta smelt, federal officials reduce the amount available for people on farms and in cities. California's Central Valley was long among the nation's richest agricultural areas, producing fruits and vegetables shipped to grocery shelves across the country. Increased water diversion under President Obama and Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar, however, has wreaked Depression-like economic havoc on the region, costing thousands of jobs, increasing food prices nationwide, and destroying a way of life for many California farm families. Unemployment in some areas of the valley has reached 40 percent.
Wanger was angered by testimony from the two scientists, Frederick V. Feyrer and Jennifer M. Norris, that he said was "false," "contradictory" and "misleading." He accused the Interior Department of "bad faith" in providing the two scientists as experts, and claimed their testimony was "an attempt to mislead and to deceive the court into accepting not only what is not the best science, it's not science." An Interior Department spokesman defended Norris and Feyrer, telling the New York Times that "we stand behind the consistent and thorough findings by our scientists on these matters and their dedicated use of the best available science."
Wanger and the Interior Department scientists cannot both be right. The judge's assessment of their testimony and his conclusion about the agency's conduct in the case raise profoundly serious questions about the integrity and honesty of all the federal officials involved in the delta smelt case. And if the judge is correct in that case, taxpayers should be wondering whether other government scientists have given impeachable testimony on behalf of questionable federal environmental policies.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who represents a large portion of the Central Valley, is right to call for a congressional investigation "into the actions of Secretary Salazar and others at Interior in relation to California water policy. The recent U.S. District Court ruling, citing illegal actions and abuse of power on the part of Interior, must be addressed."
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Put in seedy politicians as this is a pure Green powergrab put forth by Salazar and Obama's DC machine. They have already destroyed the central valley economy and will do more to raise prices, reduce availability and pour more fees and economic regulations on Americans. This communist power grab at private farms needs to be stopped, and good on the judge for calling shit, shit.
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The drive from S.F. to L.A. on Interstate 5 is depressing. Nothing but dead orchards and dried up farmland laying fallow. There are people who will put their environmental aims, whether they be based in reality or not, above the lives of a half million people. The damned fish isn't even native to the area.
A full 57% of Sunshine State voters disapprove of the job the commander-in-chief is doing, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found.
And a scant 39% give him the thumbs up.
Even worse, 53% of voters in the crucial swing state say Obama doesn't deserve a second term - with only 41% believe he should get four more years in the Oval Office. That's Obama's bleakest outlook in any state where Quinnipiac conducts surveys.
Obama took Florida in 2008 with 50.9% of the vote.
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee says President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party will own the Jewish vote in 2012. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Thursday pushed back hard against the claim that Democrats recently lost a House seat in a traditionally blue district in New York as a result of Obama's weak policy on Israel. The job sucks but someone's gotta do it...
"That is absolutely not the case, and it will be demonstrated in the election next year that the natural home for Jewish voters, both domestically in terms of policy and in our Israel policy, is the Democratic Party and President Obama as our candidate," Schultz said on Fox News.
Jewish voters "overwhelmingly" support Obama, the congresswoman said, arguing that Jewish-Americans have no problems with the president's position on Israel. Then again, they don't live in Israel...
Wasserman Schultz also praised Obama's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, saying his remarks demonstrated the president's "unshakeable commitment to Israel."
"That was an incredibly important gauntlet for the president to throw down," she said. Landed light as a feather, too...
The DNC chairwoman said she hoped Israelis and Palestinians will be able to achieve peace and live side-by-side through direct bilateral negotiations. She also hopes for a Democratic majority...
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Debbie Dip$hit might be right. Many of the liberals that are now criticizing the Zero would never vote for a Republican. That is why the Dhims take them for granted.
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Whistling past the graveyard.
Or in other words BULLSHIT.
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That was one weird interview. She telegraphing a lot of ticks, like what she was saying was really making her uncomfortable. I think even she is reconsidering her support for Teh Won.
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Don't forget the Jihadi's in Saudi arabia, Iran, Pakistan, etc... who will make thousands of $25, deliberately untraceable, donations via a website with it's security disabled - just like last time.
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If your Jewish and thinking about voting for this a-hole again
If you're an American etc...
p.s. American Jews have more reason than most to vote against him. Not because of Israel, but because if he succeeds in destroying USA economy, Jews will be the first victims of the raging mob.
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Unfortunately, g(r)omgoru is correct, although I expect it to be the Left and the Democrats leading the pogrom against the Jews in this country. Funny little fact is that evangelical Christians are well-armed and favorably predisposed towards Israel and the Jews, since Jesus's Second Coming is contingent on certain events in Jerusalem. And since the Book of Revelations makes clear that one of the first things the Anti-Christ will do is try to wipe out all the Jews and Israel both. Of course, if the Jews dare leave the Democratic plantation, the Democrats will lead the charge against them to destroy them.
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[Real Clear Politics] "Now the Republicans, you know when I, I talked about this earlier in the week. They said 'well, this is class warfare.' You know what? If asking a billionaire to pay their fair of taxes. To pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what? I, I, I, I, I'm, I'm a warrior for the middle class. I'm happy to fight for the middle class," 
Harry Reid
U.S. District Court judges aren't known for using inflammatory language in deciding the weighty issues that come before them on the federal bench. So it was remarkable to read the scorching indictment of a federal environmental agency and two of its scientists last week by Judge Oliver W. Wanger. (See also Washington Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold's detailed look at the case on Page 30.) The case concerns how the government should manage California water supplies and at the same time seek to preserve the delta smelt, an allegedly endangered species of minnow-like fish.
A full 57% of Sunshine State voters disapprove of the job the commander-in-chief is doing, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found.
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee says President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party will own the Jewish vote in 2012. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Thursday pushed back hard against the claim that Democrats recently lost a House seat in a traditionally blue district in New York as a result of Obama's weak policy on Israel.
