{"id":14394,"date":"2012-05-31T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14394"},"modified":"2012-05-31T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:08:10","slug":"romney-dings-obama-on-solyndra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14394\/romney-dings-obama-on-solyndra\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Dings Obama on Solyndra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing across the street from Solyndra\u2019s Fremont, CA headquarters today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-romney-solyndra-visit-20120531,0,1121164.story\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> articulated well just about everything that\u2019s wrong with President Barack Obama\u2019s Solyndra fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>From CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis building, this half-a-billion-dollar taxpayer investment, represents a serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team. It&#8217;s also a symbol of how the president thinks about free enterprise. Free enterprise to the president means taking money from the taxpayers and giving it freely to his friends.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CFIF readers are <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/1390-transparently-corrupt-links-between-obamas-campaign-donors-stimulus-and-energy-loans\" target=\"_blank\">no strangers<\/a> to the Obama administration\u2019s crony capitalism vis-\u00e0-vis Solyndra.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-track loan approvals that benefited a major 2008 campaign bundler, the renegotiated terms that leapfrogged private investors in front of taxpayers in the event of a default, and the unnecessary risk of $535 million in taxpayer money on an unproven solar technology that ultimately flamed out are permanent reminders of how this White House\u2019s corrupt politics and bad policies result in debt-exploding outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Americans can&#8217;t afford another day of this fiscal irresponsibility; let alone another four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing across the street from Solyndra\u2019s Fremont, CA headquarters today Mitt Romney articulated well just about everything that\u2019s wrong with President Barack Obama\u2019s Solyndra fiasco. From CNN: \u201cThis building, this half-a-billion-dollar taxpayer investment, represents a serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team. It&#8217;s also a symbol of how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,299,351,2710,160,3043,61],"class_list":["post-14394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-california","tag-corruption","tag-crony-capitalism","tag-mitt-romney","tag-solyndra","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14394"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14402,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394\/revisions\/14402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}