Ken Berwitz

Just yesterday I posted a list of ten "green" companies being considered for loan guarantees by the energy department.  I pointed out that, based on the math the energy department gave us (which, in this administration is certainly suspect) it showed a the cost per per permanent "saved or created" job would be the astounding amount of almost $23,000,000 dollars. 

I ended the blog by wondering how many of the companies involved in this taxpayer-soaking had major Democrats involved.

Well, here's the beginning of the answer- and not the end of it, I'm sure.  The following is excerpted from John Hinderaker's blog at powerlineblog.com:

Yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loan guarantees to “green energy” companies. Drudge is headlining the fact that, as reported by Mark Hemingway in the Weekly Standard, most of that amount–$737 million–is going to SolarReserve LLC for a solar-thermal project in Nevada. SolarReserve’s “investment partners”–I take it that means owners–include the Pacific Corporate Group’s Clean Energy and Technology Fund. One of Pacific Corporate Group’s principals is Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi. Another of SolarReserve’s owners is Argonaut Private Equity, whose managing director, Steve Mitchell, is on Solyndra’s board of directors.

My guess is that government underwriting of SolarReserve’s project is a horrible idea. But suppose it isn’t: who is going to believe that the Obama administration wasn’t influenced by Pelosi’s brother-in-law’s involvement in the project? Likewise, who will believe that Democratic donor George Kaiser’s involvement in Solyndra was irrelevant to the government’s misbegotten support for that company? Hemingway writes that “[i]t’s increasingly hard to tell the government’s green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats’ friends and family rewards program.”

Ron Pelosi?  Are you kidding me?  Isn't his sister in law, Nancy, the one who also got all those ObamaCare waivers for businesses, both big and small, in her congressional district?

If this doesn't indicate that the "green" loan guarantee program is a massive payoff from the Obama administration to Democrats it owes big-time favors to, it is the best imitation of it that I have ever seen.

Every day, the Green Scandal stench gets deeper and deeper.  And every day that mainstream media - or, more accurately, our "accomplice media" - do not make this scandal lead-story news, is a day their bias on behalf of Barack Obama disgraces them even more than it already has.

When do they start acting like they are actual journalists and not Obama PR flaks?  Ever?