Over at Reason, Tim Cavanaugh observes that the few defenses being mounted for loaning failed solar company Solyndra $535 million in stimulus funds are really, really wanting. “Democrats appear to be backing into a strategy of vilifying the company (previous efforts to blame perfidious China and wish the story into a cornfield having failed),” he writes.

Elsewhere they’re just ignoring the story. Former White House chief of staff, now Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel claims he didn’t know anything about the loan, which is highly unlikely, and the fine folks at MSNBC are leaning forward so far that they’re falling down on the job. Over the weekend, it was observed that in the over two weeks since the company went belly-up, taking all that taxpayer cash with them, there hasn’t been one mention of the scandal on any of the cable news network’s primetime programs.