Fisker Automotive, a “green” electric car company that absorbed $529 million
in taxpayer subsidies, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Like Solyndra and
other pork-laden companies before it, Fisker has made tax dollars vanish and
laid off the majority of its employees.
In a revealing posting on TeaPartyTribune, “Obama, Electric Cars, Crony
Capitalists and Establishment Republicans,” the blogger who goes by the name of
Mr. Curmudgeon explores the story behind the story, which is the GOP
establishment’s co-dependency in such ventures.
Here’s an excerpt that wraps up the piece. For the full article, go to the
end and click.
For far too long, the Tea Party has focused much of
its ire on the person of Barack Hussein Obama. Whether it’s the debt ceiling,
high taxes, expanding federal power or sweetheart deals showered on crony
capitalists, establishment Republicans have been Obama’s ever loyal and constant
companions. These same Republicans were furious when Mike Castle lost to
Christine O’Donnell in 2010, denying them a possible majority in the Senate.
Castle’s good friend and Fox News political
analyst Karl Rove had kittens the night of O’Donnell’s victory. “I’ve met her,”
said Rove to Fox host Sean Hannity, “I wasn’t frankly impressed by her
abilities as a candidate. One thing that O’Donnell is now going to have to
answer in the general election that she didn’t in the primary is her own
checkered background.”
By all means, let’s examine the issue of checkered
backgrounds. Republicans had majorities in both houses of Congress from 1994
through 2006. Did they use that majority to stop the explosive growth of
government? No. Was the strength of their majority employed to stop the
Government-
Sponsored Enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from infecting the
global financial system with tainted mortgage-backed securities? No. Did they
at any time attempt to reign in the Federal Reserve’s dangerous credit
expansion that fueled America’s unsustainable housing bubble? No. The reason?
Republicans like Mike Castle.
Castle happily wrote letters to Obama’s spendthrift
Department of Energy to bring Delaware some green-energy bacon. He didn’t care
that the underlying purpose of the enterprise was to reward Obama’s fundraisers
at the taxpayer’s expense.
As the battle lines begin to form heading into the
2014 midterm elections, I want you to think of establishment Republicans as
used electric car salesmen. They’ll smile, take you for a test drive, tell you
to kick the tires and then ask you to sign on the dotted line. Don’t. It’s long
past time we threw out the establishment bums. All of them.
Their continued success is Obama’s continued
success. If you want to defeat President Obama’s agenda, you need to pull the
plug on the political careers of the GOP’s worthless establishment lemons.
The thought of an establishment Republican
shellacking at the hands of the Tea Party is, well, electrifying.
Click here for full article.
Posted by Robert Knight on TeaPartyUnity.org April 12, 2013
