IRS says ‘tax avoidance’ at heart of Solyndra bankruptcy plan

Actually, the truth is it was a Bush program, indeed. However, the Bush admin looked specifically at Solyndra and rejected loans or other support. Obama admin looked at it again and also found it a questionable investment but went ahead anyway.

 

npr a satisfactory source?

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/16/140530082/weekly-standard-solyndra-debacle-blame-bush

If the first consideration of Solyndra came during the presidency of George W. Bush, that means that the application for the loan guarantee came after the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed. Clearly, this type of loan guarantee program was not a Bush Depratment of Energy (DOE) priority. The fact that Solyndra submitted a loan application does not mean the Bush White House or DOE approved the program or did more than accept the application and shuffle the paperwork a bit. And the DOE emails mentioned above appear to confirm that is all that happened.

It only became a White House priority after Obama took office. As the same ABC news report above goes on to note, "The Solyndra loan was so central to this strategy that the administration initially planned to have Obama personally announce it, and later sent the president to the company's solar panel manufacturing facility in Fremont, California to celebrate its work."

But the Obama White House's attempt to blame the Solyndra mess on the previous administration underscores how opportunistic and selective they've been when it comes to crediting Bush. Note that while the effort to take out Osama bin Laden began under the Bush administration, that point was not mentioned when the president took credit for it, even though it was a Bush priority and major efforts were directed at the effort.

With Solyndra, however, it's being associated with Bush even though all they did was have an ineffectual bureaucracy that accepted proposals from anyone who submitted them.

 

I think it was "change" from what Bush was doing. Everything he did was wrong, after all.

 

How about the whole thing, in context?

THE PRESIDENT: Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he's alive at all. Who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not; we haven't heard from him in a long time. And the idea of focusing on one person is -- really indicates to me people don't understand the scope of the mission.

Terror is bigger than one person. And he's just -- he's a person who's now been marginalized. His network, his host government has been destroyed. He's the ultimate parasite who found weakness, exploited it, and met his match. He is -- as I mentioned in my speech, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who is willing to commit youngsters to their death and he, himself, tries to hide -- if, in fact, he's hiding at all.

So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well-supplied; that the strategy is clear; that the coalition is strong; that when we find enemy bunched up like we did in Shahikot Mountains, that the military has all the support it needs to go in and do the job, which they did.

And there will be other battles in Afghanistan. There's going to be other struggles like Shahikot, and I'm just as confident about the outcome of those future battles as I was about Shahikot, where our soldiers are performing brilliantly. We're tough, we're strong, they're well-equipped. We have a good strategy. We are showing the world we know how to fight a guerrilla war with conventional means.

Q But don't you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.

But once we set out the policy and started executing the plan, he became -- we shoved him out more and more on the margins. He has no place to train his al Qaeda killers anymore. And if we -- excuse me for a minute -- and if we find a training camp, we'll take care of it. Either we will or our friends will. That's one of the things -- part of the new phase that's becoming apparent to the American people is that we're working closely with other governments to deny sanctuary, or training, or a place to hide, or a place to raise money.

 

Facts don't matter. What matters is what you believe. Everyone is entitled to their own reality.

barfo

 

So when the fact checker article ends with "mostly true" then is it facts or not?

(I think it's their opinion at that point)