ContributorNetwork – As the race for the White House intensifies, one thing has become abundantly clear — there are only a few key battleground states that will decide the White House in 2012. In a pre-emptive strike to sway voters, President Obama and Vice President Biden have become considerably more visible in these swing states.
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Examining Four Battleground States in the 2012 Presidential Election
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**Written by Doug Powers The Republicans don’t trust the White House’s review of the Energy Department’s “green” loan program to get to the bottom of the Solyndra debacle? Hard to believe. USA Today : A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee investigating the collapse of Solyndra voted today to authorize the panel to subpoena the White House to produce internal correspondence on its dealings with the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer. The committee issued a broad call for all internal documents–including correspondence, memorandums and drafts–and authorizes the panel’s chairman to issue to subpoenas to White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley and Bruce Reed, Vice President Biden’s chief of staff. “This is not a fishing expedition,” said Cliff Stearns, the chairman of the Energy’s oversight subcommittee. “We want answers and so do the American taxpayers. It’s unfortunate that it has come to this, but we do not have faith in the White House overtures” to produce relevant documents. The White House has handed over 85,000 documents on the Department of Energy loan guarantee program since the committee launched its investigation. Days before the collapse, an investment banking firm that had already made a million dollars analyzing options for Solyndra advised the White House to bail the company out, presumably so they could continue making money analyzing options for Solyndra. But the full bailout recommendation was rejected. By then it was too late because they’d already auctioned off the whistling robots . Then there’s this: Solyndra’s former CEO received nearly a half million dollars in severance . What was your cut? **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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House Panel to Subpoena All White House Correspondence Regarding Solyndra
At this point, talk of a Somebody-Rubio ticket or an Obama-Clinton ticket is just idle speculation. For what it’s worth, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida insists he’s not interested in the vice-presidency, and President Obama insists that Vice President Biden is sticking around for the long haul. But in Florida, they’re polling on this question nonetheless : Keep reading this post . . .
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Would Rubio as Veep Help Carry Florida? Early Data Says, ‘Probably.’
**Written by Doug Powers Logo credit: Sloane Buried within an ABC News story about today’s release of hundreds of Solyndra-related emails is a reminder of what White House Spokesman Jay Carney said at a press conference late last month after being asked about the involvement of a Department of Energy consultant and Obama fundraiser named Steve Spinner: Carney replied: “It’s my understanding, at least with regard to the gentleman you just mentioned [Steve Spinner], that he had no connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program.” After hearing Carney say that, your first instinct might have been to think, “Hey, Spinner must have a connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program!” Now back to the top of the story for confirmation that you should always trust your instincts: An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration’s energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife’s law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday. “How hard is this? What is he waiting for?” wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. “I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this.” Many of the emails were written just days after Spinner accepted a three-page ethics agreement in which he pledged he would “not participate in any discussion regarding any application involving [his wife's law firm] Wilson [Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati].” Prediction: At the next press conference Carney will claim that when he said Spinner had “no connection” to the loan program, he meant literally — as in that Spinner wasn’t duct taped, chained, super glued or stapled to it in any way. If the “breathing down my neck on this” Spinner references from the White House and Veep’s office was in email or memo form, we might learn about it on a subsequent Friday afternoon document drop & dash. Also, it isn’t difficult to spot a party planner who has access to piles of other people’s money : Many of the emails surround his efforts to coordinate plans for either President Obama or Vice President Biden to announce it as the administration’s first loan approval — one that he repeatedly notes will create clean energy jobs. It is Spinner, for instance, who pushes for a “big event” with “golden shovels, bulldozers, hardhats, etc.” It wasn’t just a shovel ready job — it was a golden shovel ready job. At this point though, the whistling robots were just a gleam in his eye. Politico has a story today about the “*#~@ show,” and there’s lots more Solyndra and Solyndra-related background here . **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Friday Solyndra Email Dump
First, Vice President Joe Biden explained to his Chinese counterparts that their notorious one-child policy was something he could “fully understand,” and the White House tried to walk back the astounding comment. Now, Biden has verbally stepped in it again — this time, when chatting with the Chinese about America’s debt. You know, no biggie. USA Today reports : Vice President Biden mistakenly claimed Americans own 85% of U.S. Treasury securities during his visit to China. Americans own 54% of the U.S. public debt — that is, the amount of debt held by the public. They own 69% of the total debt, which includes money the U.S. government owes itself. At several stops in China, Vice President Biden sought to reassure the Chinese that their investments in U.S. treasuries are safe… I’m sure that not even having a firm grasp on the numbers went a long way to “reassure” our foreign financiers.
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Sen. Schumer, on the FAA shutdown, Vice President Biden and another Dem revert to the usual “hostage-taking” and “terrorist” rhetoric.
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has pulled out of the debt ceiling talks being conducted by Vice President Biden, according to The Daily Caller. Cantor has cited demands by Democrats that taxes be raised as part of a deficit reduction package for his departure.
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Debt Ceiling Talks Collapse, Leave Obama with Unpleasant Options
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