WHO: U.S. Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera WHAT: After the bankruptcy filing by Solyndra, a poster-child company heavily subsidized by President Obama’s stimulus, LaVera said, “The project that we supported succeeded. The facility was producing the product it said it would produce, and consumers were buying the product.”

WHY IT’S DIM: So they succeeded by going out of business? Yes, he really said that.