When it was reported that Obama fundraiser and top Solyndra fundraiser George Kaiser met at the White House on multiple occasions, top White House officials asserted “the White House now firmly believes that [Solyndra investor and Obama fundraiser George] Kaiser never broached the subject of the Solyndra loan,” in the words of ABC’s Matthew Mosk. Kaiser said Solyndra never came up in these meetings.
New emails show that the subsidized bankrupt politically connected solar panel company was a topic of meetings when Kaiser and his lieutenants met at the White House. In fact, Kaiser & crew used their access to the White House to push for taxpayer subsidies.
Here’s a nugget from an email Kaiser wrote.
I also agree with Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh on this:
Snarky liberals are trying to turn Solyndra into a joke, as if it’s just some all-purpose conservative boogeyman. When I was on MSNBC and someone mentioned Solyndra (a rarity on MSNBC), former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones made a big fake yawn.
But now, with these emails, we’ve got Obama fundraisers saying false things about lobbying, and the White House passing on those false things. We’ve also got a senior energy department official pushing for this subsidy while his wife’s law firm represented Solyndra. Energy Department officials rewrote the law in order to aid Solyndra.
It doesn’t look pretty. Liberals can mock Solyndra, and MSNBC’s primetime shows can pretend it doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean no corruption happened.
