Obama Creates Chicago Solution to Chicago Problem at Solyndra

One such guy is the indicted Republican boss of Springfield, William Cellini, a wealthy developer and executive director of the Illinois Asphalt Pavement Association. LaHood is a Cellini guy.

And Cellini is a Combine guy. He’s known as the “Pope” in the state capital of Springfield. He’s currently under indictment for asking a Hollywood producer to make a seven-figure contribution to Blagojevich’s campaign in return for a contract managing teachers’ pension funds. He’s the guy-behind-the-guy, in Kass’ phrase. And as Wikipedia reports, “He has been vetted and licensed by gaming regulatory bodies in Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, Illinois and Iowa.”

Shovel ready? LaHood and Cellini will give you shovel ready.

That’s why I kind of feel bad for the Solyndra guys. Not the donors, but the executives.

It’s just about now that they have figured out who they were dealing with.

They thought they were dating the prom king when courting Obama and his government checkbook. But really, they were getting juice from a loan shark, Chicago-style, and they didn’t know it.

Maybe that’s why all of sudden the business guys who wear ties for a living and who were so ready to cooperate with the investigation into Solyndra are going to make like mobsters and invoke 5^th Amendment protection when testifying before Congress on Friday.

The Combine is pretty adept at government investigations that pin the blame on someone else; someone else who, in the best case scenario, ends up doing ten-to-twenty making small rocks out of large rocks.

Currently the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Treasury and Congress all have open investigations into Solyndra and possible loan fraud by the executives.

Political strategist James Carville recently recommended on TV that Obama “indict” someone as a way of saving his presidency.

This is the final image of hope and change? Scapegoat indictments?

The only hope the guys behind the donors at Solyndra have is for a change at prosecutor.

If I were them, I’d be crying out loud for a special prosecutor, independent of the Obama administration's Combine in this case.

True story:

It’s their only hope.

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Fantasy Control Wrote: Sep 23, 2011 12:08 AM

What an eye opening article. Thanks! Mucho!

I hope you don't have too much trouble lining up new indentification papers. Just a tip - a simple facelift probably won't do it, you should opt for a sex change operation. They say it really hurts when they put the straw in your temple and suck out ninety percent of your brains. (old joke)

Obama has already taken our trillion and turned it into his billion. He only recently figured out that he's screwed up so badly it's going to take $2 billion. He want to bankrupt America's electoral process - and in the process, the nation. Looks like money laundering is becoming a full time job.

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deRanger Disgusted with BOTH parties Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:54 PM

Why do we consistently miss-assign the blame for this kind of criminal cronyism? Here's the real guilty party: it's us. We the People who allow this garbage to go on and on sucking the country dry like Lamprey on Lake Trout.

I don't see where either political party is free of guilt in that department. Corruption visits the Right as well as Left. But as long as corruption has some sort of benefit to voters in either bloc it goes on its merry way unfettered by the lame arm of the law.

Right now the most colossally corrupt regime in US history is draining not the swamp in DC but the Treasury. And it's OBVIOUS.

So what's being done about it? I'll put it in one word:

Nothing.

Issuing nasty press releases doesn't count, Mr Issa.

K.R.2 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:58 PM

After Bill Clinton came out with his story that it isn't a good time to raise taxes on rich people a day or two ago, I got to thinking that maybe the big boys have decided that Obama will decide not to run in 2012, and they will move Hillary in to run instead. She is every bit as radical as Obama and her election would just continue Obama's goals. If this happens, don't be fooled by her.

Michael in the P/R of ATL Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 9:46 PM

I was raised in NW Illinois, and returned to spend 18 years of my adult life in downtown Chicago. It's a paradoxical experience living there. In many ways, it's a wonderful city (except for 10+% sales tax!), but you always have the undeniable stench of utter corruption, and it's statewide. Both "parties" are guilty, but most Republican politicians are RINOs, as are the party's apparatchiks.

When I left, I wanted to walk through a car wash to get rid of that stench.

Moonbat Exterminator Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 9:34 PM

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Read Mike Royko's expose of the corruption in the RJ Daley Sr administration. There doesn't seem to be much change since those days.

Fantasy Control Wrote: Sep 23, 2011 12:15 AM

The real socialists took over. Read Stanley Kurtz's stuff on Obama's affiliation with the Midwest Institute, ACORN and Trinity United.

Bill7360 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 8:29 PM

This was probably a good source for the Cockroach aka Obama's secret bank accounts.

Mark1994 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 7:01 PM

When I first saw the word "combine," I instantly thought of John Kass only to see his name a couple of paragraphs later. I subscribed to the Chicago Tribune through a special and John Kass columns are a big reason why. His reporting on the politics and corruption in Chicago gives a good insight into the operations in the White House with this current group.

Mark1994 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 7:03 PM

The sentence should read I subscribed to the Chicago Tribune through a special offer and John Kass columns are a big reason why I keep re-subscribing. Proof reading is not always one of my best skills.

Benjamin38 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 6:35 PM

The fearful leader Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction to kill Americans in 2003. The Americans came to Iraq, putting themselves in close proximity to these WMD.

Saddam, scared that his public image would be tarnished (don't all evil despots!), banished his WMD to a far-away place called Syria. These weapons, unbeknown to Saddam completely degraded over the next few months.

Saddam was found in a hole.

When the Iraqis stand down, the Americans can stand up. No.... IT IS, when the Iraqis, stand up the Americans can stand down. Hoorah!

And then the Iraqis grant all oil concessions to the Red Chinese because the Chinese have been saving their money not liberating people.

Chris3668 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 9:47 PM

You sure copy and paste well! Have a great day.

renny4 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 5:09 PM

Our only hope is to get little o and his henchmen out of DC.

VOTE ANYBODY BUT OBAMA IN 2012.

AL MACK Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 4:38 PM

I think it would be most appropriate for the filthy rich liberals to kick in their fair share of the millions and billions they hold in their bank accounts to pay the taxpayers back for the blunder of Obamalinsky's administration with Solyndra. Obamalinsky, Warren Buffet, Soros, Matt Damon, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Jeff Imelt, Michael Moore and all of the demented Hollywood crowd can pony up the $535 million that Obamalinsky fleeced from the taxpayers. That's shared fair.

Torr Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 6:09 PM

i think it would also be appropriate for the 51% of earners who currently pay no net personal income tax began to pay "THEIR" own fair share!

There will be no end to the liberal/progressive cries for greater expansions of social subsidies and welfare programs as long as the beneficiaries aren't affected by tax rates raised on the 49% who still pay individual income tax.

The predominately liberal democrat voters who benefit from the astronomical number of these programs really cannot cast a fair or reasonable vote on issues or candidates until they (to use Obama's lingo) "have some SKIN in the game"!

kpistol Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 4:14 PM

As usual, very insightful Mr. Ransom

Donald512 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 3:09 PM

Is anyone surprised by this? You had to figure that coming from a politically corrupt state like Illinois that obama would be as crooked as they come. Afterall he was moved into office through the efforts of ACORN and we all know how questionable their actions were. Of course, since obama worked with ACORN it really should come as no surprise to anyone. obama is out for one thing and one thing only - himself.

sylvia J Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 2:17 PM

Ransom is spot on, this article is as right as rain. We have said this very thing for a long time and yet, some people are shocked as they can be. Don't tell me that they could not see OBAMA is as crooked as any snake can be, his whole life has been orchestrated since birth.
We are seeing the culminated effort of his MOTHER and her COMMIE bunch.
GOD BLESS AMERICA

Zdravko Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 1:09 PM

This deadly combination of university marxists and mobsters are communizing America while working on their permanent hold on power.

hitthedeck Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 1:20 PM

In the days of fighting the cold war Americans knew exactly what communism was and could identify it. The youth of today do not recognize it and cannot see it when it’s hidden in the form of social justice, sharing the wealth, healthcare and Green programs. Communism is like an untreated cancer that slowly kills the immune system that protects your freedom.

hitthedeck Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 12:49 PM

The eyes of the corrupt leaders in the back of an administration that has full control of evidence that will never be viewed or presented to any independent investigating congressional committee in Congress. We have a questionable Attorney General that has done things that would get your local alderman fired. He knows everything about an honest Guitar company but knows nothing about the missions going on in his own department. Where is the law in America today when you have an Attorney General who uses his power to bend the law of the land to benefit his political agenda and throw up a protective net to block anyone from exposing corruption in the Obama administration.

D G Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 12:32 PM

The Obama gangsters are like the Clinton mafia on steroids.

jax33 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 12:00 PM

Here is a guarantee.Obama will get 80% of the votes in Crook county.They can't revive the other 20,they've been dead to long

And the goshdarn Liberal Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:57 AM

Need d to settle this the Enron way.

George4059 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:52 AM

I think Al Capone was born too early. He really could've made it big in Chicago or even national politics/unions today. He could have been a flamboyant chicago Mayor.
It's sad when you know the truth but can't get justice. It's sad when Chicago politics has been so dirty for so many generations and it just keeps going on. It is disgusting when the Repub's and the Dem's are in it 'just for the business as usual.
Hah! Repub's and the Dems'..sounds like two new street gangs.

Ron4594 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 1:17 PM

If Barry weren't already the third appearance of the Antichrist, he could be the second appearance of Al Capone.

kenneth416 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:47 AM

You think LaHood is bad? How about the rest of the Cabinet? The most competent of the lot is Hillary Clinton.
As fro Solyndra, it is unfortunate that they declared bankruptcy--they might have made it if we had just injected another half billion dollars or so. You see, if it costs a company $6 to make a solar panel and that solar panel can be sold for $3, you need to sell more of them to make it up on volume!

Seawolf Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:51 AM

Trouble with clinton is she's as big an alinskyite as the o, perhaps even more so if that's possible.
I think a deal was struck between them to put his sorryass in because he could move their commie agenda forward while hiding behind the race card...8 to 5 she'll run against him and complete the job.
A lot of independents would vote for her where they won't go near this clown this time. If he steps down ala LBJ, you KNOW the fix was in.
You heard it here first.

Donald581 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 1:07 PM

The Clinton's have a dismal record of an employment plan. There is a list of 42 EX-employee/associates that have shot them self in the back of the head - one car collision's with a tree on a lonely road - fell asleep on the railroad track's- fell out of tall buildings and Vince Foster ? The mafia needs to take lesson's from the Clinton's.

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Reginald10 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 3:13 PM

Who do you think taught the Clintons?

Ron4594 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 1:14 PM

Solyndra went bankrupt becuse Barry Hussein Obamba gave a GERMAN company a $6 billon contract to install solar panels in Kalifornia after Solyndra was built. That was just one of Barry's seven deals at the time.

william704 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:35 AM

this has been known for many years. why didn't it make the reporting in the media. soros,turner,buffet and bloomberg have huge media holdings and i think they were keeping it out of the lamestream mediaposers postings.

JITA Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:24 AM

There were any number of great lines from the Godfather series.

My personal favorite was: "Politics and crime, they're the same".

el Dudley Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:10 AM

I saw somewhere where they said Michele Obama looked unhappy at the last joint session BS "jobs act" that Obama pushed. It is opined she must be sad, and resigned to the fact that her husband will be booted out of office. Ohhhh, poor thing.

Yeah, I can see why she'd be sad. Her 8-10 vacations a year @ $250,000 per vacation will only be for one more year. Boo hooo, waaaa...

She'll probably return to that "not proud of my country" horsesht.

Seawolf Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:43 AM

That she is referred to as first "lady" is a disgrace.
No class and dresses like an unmade bed.

Born Country Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 12:53 PM

And she spends more than the proverbial drunken sailor!!

Skycdr Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 3:30 PM

Drunken sailors spend their own money!!! Not the same!

Dr_Zinj Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 9:48 AM

Pretty much proof that the only thing coming out of Chi-town is corrupt, mob bought machine politicians.
Sad, very sad, that such crap is coming out of the Land of Lincoln.
I hope this is the last time we elect some crook from Illinois to national office.

kenneth416 Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 10:50 AM

Don't be so quick to condemn Chicago. It is now in the very capable hands of Rahm Emanuel--he will undoubtedly clean it up and fix what is wrong, if only he can persuade Obama to pump in a couple of billion dollars or so to use in "community organizing."

el Dudley Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:15 AM

Kenneth; I'd be willing to bet that they are already working on that!! As corrupt and ridiculous as it sounds, don't think they haven't discussed it!

David R. Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 9:43 AM

At some point, if he continues to be so inept, the Combine will make Obama the fall-guy.

Jeff P Wrote: Sep 22, 2011 11:49 AM

That would be awesome. And very entertaining.

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