From the lips of Marxist-Democrat Michael Moore

Michael Moore and friends are the primary animal life doing what animals do at Protest Park in New York City.   Perennial House leader, robotic  Marxist-Democrat Nancy Pelosi from San Fancisco,  admires ’protester’  courage, sufferings and ‘youth’…..and their spontaniety to act feely.    The Occupy Wall Street club has mastasticized to other worldly places with burnings and bombings already sparking in some.

But the pot, stench from body excrement of all kinds, stirred the owners of the park to call upon City Hall to clean up the area.   Mayor Bloomberg briefly and obliquely  mentioned the need for cleanliness and good health, believing passionately  in Marxist global warmings and their imminent disasters for believing Marxist-Democrats hither and thither, quickly moved on to postpone any cleanliness moves to some later date.   Fresh air can wait.  Marxism cannot. 

Marxist-Democrat,  St. Michael Moore noted:

“They obviously did the right thing because they don’t have another choice,” Michael Moore said about New York City giving up on cleaning the unsanitary conditions at the park where the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators are camped out. “It’s not really their choice. The choice has been made by the people who are occupying the park. And they’re not going. We’re not going. We’re not going anywhere. We are there until we have justice. And for people who say ‘what does that mean?’ or ‘what does everybody want?’

What we want, really, is a fundamental change. This is no longer about trying to get some bill passed or let’s elect this Congressman or whatever. We’ve been down that road. Everyone’s been that road and everyone’s depressed by the way the political system is run. So, until we get the money out of that system — thank you, Dylan Ratigan. Until we get the money out of the system we’re going to really have to depend on grassroots people demanding this change and making this change occur. And that’s what’s going to happen.”

Are you paying attention, America, what hath Barack Obama Wrought?

Do College or Street Leftists Screaming for Marxism Know For What They Scream”

Do the Marxists of the Obama Administration really dream of  establishing a Dictatorship of the ‘Equal’?   Does Obama?   Why was Communist Van Jones, Communist by membership and Jones’ own admission,  selected for a Czar post by president  Barack Hussein?   Why did  Anita Dunn, one of Obama’s closest advisors, admit publicly and passionately thant one of the two people in history she most admired was the world’s Champion murderer of a nation’s citizens, (over 50,000,000) Marxist  Mao Tse Dung?      For 22 years Mr. Obama was a member of Marxist anti-American Jeremiah  Wright’s racist house of ‘worship’ in Chicago……the man whom Obama called, ‘my father figure’?

Why have American university  professors and  terrorists, such as Bill Ayers,  and his wife bombed,  terrorized, and preached   for Marxist rule for America?

Why are  so many of the rabble rousers and other  noise makers at professional  protestings such as New York’s Occupy Wall Street gangs some violently, others romantically plead for  Marxism?    Where do they learn this passion for violence, destruction  and disorder?  What do they think Marxism means?

Why do Americans know so little about the evils of Marxism?

Please read the following paragraphs of  information from from what could be a million page tome of the evils of State Marxist Rule experienced over the past century:of Marxist plots and rule.

If ones knowledge in life is based solely on what is remembered……..why is it so many American Leftists, such as Barack Obama,  have no memory of Marxism, history’s most evil  system of mass  rule  over  mankind?

 

A Holodomor for the New Millennium

By William Sullivan

In 1928, Joseph Stalin began a “program of agricultural collectivization” which included a mandate that farmers and peasants surrender their lands and livestock and submit to labor upon state-owned communal farms.  When Ukrainian farmers opposed this tyrannical affront to the rights of men, Stalin accused them of “bourgeois nationalism,” an individualistic identity antithetical to the Communistic rule of the Soviet Union.

 

In response to their defiance, Stalin raised militias to expropriate and deport the Ukrainians to the Siberian tundra.  When production stalled, he enacted decrees to arrest or execute any among the starving peasantry for taking or hiding “as little as a few stalks of wheat or a potato from the field he worked.”  By 1933, “Ukrainians [were] dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, more than half of which [were] children.  In the end, up to 10 million starve[d] to death.”  This event has come to be known as the Holodomor, which means “death by hunger.”

 

This is far from the only incident of man-made famine the history of the twentieth century provides.  Mao Zedong, in 1959, created his own initiative for state-sponsored “agricultural collectivization” known as The Great Leap Forward.  It was during this time, as recounted by researcher Nicholas Eberstadt with the American Enterprise Institute, that peasants and farmers were organized into “huge collectives that socialized feeding as well as farming” with the explicit aim to “destroy the family as an institution.”  The following years saw the failure of Mao’s Great Leap, which resulted in “the state’s exaction of grain from the communes” and the starvation of those that populated them.  Then, “for the crime of being hungry, the peasants were sentenced to political terror.”  Today, we know that as many as thirty million people died in this period of “excess mortality,” a crime against humanity the scope of which Eberstadt likens thusly: “It would be as if the entire population of California had been swept off the face of the earth.”

 

Cambodia experienced a similar scenario of famine as the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot worked industriously to cultivate their own brand of “agricultural collectivism.”  And in the years leading up to the turn of the millennium, similar practices in North Korea produced a man-made famine that claimed as many as three million lives.

 

The trend is not obscure.  In all of these scenarios, starving populations met their end under the oppression of Communism.  One might wonder how the advocate of Marxism would support his position given these far-too-little-known atrocities produced by its principles.  He might suggest that the likes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Kim Il-sung were just bad seeds — that the ideology did not fail man, but instead evil men failed the ideology.

 

This, however, is nothing more than a collectivist’s fantasy.

 

The proof of this continues to haunt us in the new millennium.  A recent Reuters report offers that “[i]n a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed.  All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.”  This first sentence illuminates more than it might at first seem.  Note the phrase “most productive farming province,” and consider what this means.  It suggests one of two things: either the government is forcefully confiscating the product of the nation’s most successful laborers and purposefully starving them and their children, or this limited information given by a secretive North Korea shows only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the current suffering, meant to spur emotions and elicit aid while hiding the epidemic’s severity.  In either case, we can be certain that once again, the diseased product of Marxist principle is claiming victims in this, the newest “holodomor.”

 

Certainly, each of these men referenced, including Kim Jong-il, is an evil and murderous example, corrupted absolutely by the power given him.  But clearly, the more convincing parallel is that the very ideology of collectivism and socialism creates the need for such men.  Human nature resists any attempt to seize the product of one’s labor beyond what he would offer of his own volition.  To function and maintain any semblance of rigidity, any socialistic government must break down this innate quality of the human spirit in its people, to be replaced with a new ideology that wholly conflicts with it.  To ensure that this process, commonly known as “re-education,” takes hold, force must be used and examples made.

 

But alas, does any of this evidence really matter in America today?  After all, it did not matter in the last century. 

Even after the Holodomor, the Great Leap, and the Khmer Rouge, advocates of Marxism like Howard Zinn were still able to convince millions that the grand Marxist vision of enslaving human potential is preferable to nurturing it to flourish. 

 

But perhaps today, futile as it might seem, it is more important than ever to be reminded of this correlation between Marxism and the human misery it yields.  Certainly, it is prudent for us to recognize the travesty of the orchestrated murder taking place in Kim Jong-il’s country.  Even before 2008 sanctions, there was ample evidence that he was “diverting donated food” for his own purposes.

 

But from a practical and domestic standpoint, the dismal situation in North Korea can serve as a reminder of what true suffering is.  No, not the kind of suffering that Americans commonly think of when they address the suffering they endure daily.  The kind of suffering that prompted thousands of youths and seasoned counterculturalists, Marxists, and Maoists to hit the streets in the Occupy Wall Street movement — like having to pay a mortgage, or having to pay for the service of health care, or having to pay for higher education, or having to work to earn a living wage, or just the sheer suffering that comes of knowing that someone has it better than they do.  No, North Koreans endure real suffering — fear, starvation, and death at the hands of its ruling class.

 

And perhaps there is value in reflecting upon and lamenting the intense irony derived from thousands of privileged Americans, supported by prominent Democrats, outspokenly begging for the application of Marxist principles — while on the other side of the Earth, muted masses are suffering and dying under the weight of that very yoke.

 

 

Thank God for a Mother’s Punishment! Thank God for R. Atkinson Fox!

My Mother was into punishment, that is, for me  being her only son.  

 She was a driven energetic and creative human being who could give a doll to her only daughter to ensure the girl’s  disappearance from my Mother’s tasks at hand…..which were many, including some not terribly necessary from an outsider’s point of view.  I don’t think she ever experienced a bored thirty seconds in her lifetime even on her death bed.

 I have learned through these,  my last years of   life, that I have been  much like her, except for the punishment bit.   I cannot remember ever  being  bored, and I, too, have handled certain tasks, the necessary and the unnecessary with full speed ahead as if I were a truck  plowing snow.

Whether Mother  was  dusting   furniture, vacuuming  the carpet, wall papering, canning, conducting  business on the phone, or working part time at a shop, or performing a thousand other tasks per week,  my own endless energy and curiosity  got in her way.   I had questions to ask, noise to make with my trucks and attack air planes.   I had to know what things were and how they were used.  I was a boy.

My Mother had no time to put up with a likeness of herself and wanted me out of her way……punishment was the answer, whenever needed, for deed or no deed at all.

Hence, I discovered R. Atkinson Fox, the purpose of this post.   And, I really do believe that from this punishment, and the spring and summer  punishments being sent into our  Victory garden during World War II to pick the potato beetles and hoe, weed, harvest, seed, and other duties, led to  one of my primary loves of life…….landscape gardening.

The form of my primary  punishment from age 3 to age 11 or so, was to be sent to a wall, to face  that  wall for about an hour, or until mother’s task was accomplished or her mood soothed.

Far above my three year old head I spied a print hanging on the wall of my punishments. Years would come, the years would go, but both wall and print never changed.   It was a beautiful print, a landscape garden masterpiece  print.    Every year my life would make me taller and bring me closer, ever  closer with each punishment to this masterpiece  landscape garden print.   

When I was ten I discovered a name scrawled across the bottom right hand corner of this  beautiful landscape garden print…..”R. Atkinson Fox”.   It must be the name of the man who painted such  beautiful scenery, I thought.

When younger, I would cry or whimper at each punishment.    But one gets used to certain patterns in life.   The whimpers were more brief, until, worried that I might be sent somewhere else, I learned to pretend-whimper to make certain Mother  knew I was ‘suffering’ from her will.    Also, I learned quickly to complain about picking potato beatles…..dishonestly, I confess.   My favorite place for  punishment was  the Victory Garden.   There, I could explore, and since it was war time, I could dive bomb the beetles.   I loved the sound of a stuka.   It was its sound that captured my love, not the insignia.

I learned to love being around plants whether vegetables or landscape beauties.    I noted in Spring the highest in value among my mother’s tasks was her organizing  the  ten by ten foot  flower bed she’d assemble  each and every year.    This was a different Mother in action, as I viewed her work thirty feet away, safely playing ‘scenery’ in my neighbor’s sandbox.   She was at total peace with herself and others.  So was I watching her from afar, practicing landscaping in my sandbox neighborhoods making winding roads for  my Tootsie Toy cars.  

In this setting I was never in her way.   Peace, at last.

Sandbox landscaping came to an end when I was fourteen.   Mother was furious  when she saw my maturing body still hovering over sand and arborvitae conifer twigs of my art work in the aging sandbox.   “Glenn Herbert Ray, you’re to old to be playing in the sandbox.”    Mother and I were generally no on good terms at that time, so just as angrilly retorted “I’m not playing in the sandbox.   I am making scenery!”

But the damage was done;  my male pride wounded.   I moved off  for  other worlds to conquer, but never left the message or beauty of that sandbox, for I was making scenery and enjoyed every minute of it.

I have landscape gardened my entire life……the past twenty five or so years as owner of  Masterpiece Landscape, Ltd here in the Twin Cities.    We deliver a strange message in our landscaping…..that it,  is an ART FORM…..as a matter of fact, the most revered art form of almost every culture from their religious past…….PARADISE is not a painting, or theater, or a book…..PARADISE IS A LANDSCAPE GARDEN.

I have known for decades I have been a very lucky individual, blessed in so many ways.    I was so lucky to have been so often  punished in my Mother’s manner.

One of the benefits of old age, again, if one is lucky, is to look back and follow the trail of ones memory.   How did I get to this point of my life?

During the winter, a long one in Minnesota as you experienced people know, I bonded further with this  ’Grand She’ of our household  and at age eight on, I rose to unbelievable heights in her esteem for me.    She had a profound weakness which distracted her from her own course of duties, needed and unneeded, in life…..conquering jigsaw puzzles……the larger number of pieces, the greater the victory.   Neither my dad nor my sister were interested in sitting at the card table in the living room  figuring out where the 1,000 pieces or more  would fit to make a picture……and not just any old picture.

Television didn’t arrive in our house until my freshman year in high school

Every single jigsaw puzzle ever placed on that card table had to become a picture of a beautiful garden setting.   No other pictures could send Mother full speed ahead toward puzzle completion, nor completion of  any other Mother tasks, the needed or unneeded.    When the livingroom walls were painted, the jigsaw puzzle  laden card table was placed in the middle of the room, no matter what the consequence.  

No threats were made, but all three of the rest of us  in the family knew her jigsaw puzzle   table was sacred.   God help one and all if it were ever disturbed.   It never was.   Actually, she painted or wall papered all the faster, so she could take a rest at that very table to set more pieces.   “Glenn, get over here and help your Mother!”   She loved my assistance.   I gladly obliged and sensed  that  any mistake I had ever made in life, the real and the unreal,  was purged from her memory.

Mother was an accomplished jigsaw puzzle solver.   Naturally being a male, I wanted to beat her.   We never said anything about this sweat, but I had a quicker, keener, younger  eye.   She never had a chance, but never complained.  She was proud of me.   We seldom got tired ‘picture puzzling’.  We bonded  tightly.

By the time I was nine, because of the frequency of Mother  punishments, I became King of the Victory Garden.   Frankly, no one else  ever went there after spring cultivation and seeding.   I made daily visits, some forced, some voluntary.   It was a good place for us boys  to play guns where we could shoot Nazis hiding among the corn stalks.    No one knew more about this vast area of vegetable production than I regardless of age.    I knew when the green tomatoes were big enough for frying and red enough for table and producing enough for canning.     I was  the only one who did the harvesting, when the cucumbers were big enough for pickling and the big cucumbers good  enough for canning chunk pickles. 

“The only thing I don’t like about gardens,” my Mother would complain, “it’s the bees”.   If stung, her  wounds really did swell up…..so I was sent to the fields instead.   It was okay if I got stung, but I never did.

We, rather I,  grew our spring potatoes on ‘hills’ for easy harvesting.  My  Mother’s German father  recommended  this.    Hunting for the appropriate potatoes, those of the proper size was like hunting for treasure for a boy of 8, 9, or ten years.     I had orders to ‘pluck’  the larger ones so we could get the most out of the crop.   There was an art to plucking.    One was  to stick one’s strong hand into the soil  and probe until the touch found a good tuber for plucking.   Since the edible part of the potato is this  swollen stem and not a root, the harvest can be somewhat extended by allowing more ‘tubers’ to gain size  in a season.   To be German was to be frugal.

The problem here is one couldn’t see what one’s hand was touching  underneath the soil.    There is a downside to this harvesting of  spring potatoes.   The hand may send a message regarding  the right size for picking, but the hand doesn’t anounce the health of the underground potato.

Have you ever smelled a rotten potato?   How about one you’ve squished in you hands while probing underground for the harvest?

Well, even at ones young age, one does survive squishing rotten potatoes, but one never forgets the smell.   Besides, I was never allowed to complain, and early on had learned the benefits from not doing so.   

Furthermore underlying it all,  I did know perfectly well, the Garden is where I wanted to be.

Was there ever a R. Atkinson Fox in your past or was I just lucky?

“An Now Let Us Stand to Sing Our National Anthem”……What a joke!

The following is a reprint of a recent post.   Another football weekend is upon America.  Sports fans will be enduring the corrupt singing of the Nation’s National Anthem at nearly every event.

The following I dedicate to those who care about their America:

Are Americans Too Stupid to Sing the National Anthem Properly?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Glenn H. Ray | Edit

I am a football fan.  Over the years of following losers, I have reduced my football time to watching the NFL.   We have a team in Minnesota called the Vikings.   It is a great name, but not one  for a losing squad.

My oldest son and I have had season tickets for years.   We often win  home games , but on the road, the Vikings sink in their ships before they arrive on any shores to terrorize.

I watched the openings of a number of televised games this September 11, 2011.   Four of the watched had huge American flags opened across the width of each field.   There was cheering, ….real cheering, and chantings of “USA”.    I get chills when I hear the common folk feeling free to express their belonging. 

The first time “USA” was chanted in frenzy was at a hockey game…….the most remarkable sports event  in modern  sports history, the incredible upset of the Soviet professional hockey team by the good old USA, (most of the team Minnesotans)  in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.   

That USA chant of so many years ago was the best chant I had ever heard.  Yet, I felt proud as an American on today’s anniversary of the ATTACK ON OUR UNITED STATES ten years ago today.   One would have no clue of the attack listening to the mindless announcers referring to the significance of that day,  September 11, 2001.

The USA was attacked as sure as it was attacked on December 7, 1941, the day that was supposed to “Live in Infamy”.  But the soft minds of television pontificating about that attack, uniformly called it a “tragedy”……as if a tsunami had swamped the World Trade Center.  

The American communications industry is filled with LIARS, whether they are the origin of the lie, or read someone else’s lie to their audience.   We send our children  to university to learn how to lie in this manner so the professors and our enemies will like us better.   They don’t like America….period.  It’s people are too free and unMarxist.

After the goosebumps with the public chanting for USA at each of these great sports venues, there came  the  moment when the public is supposed to sing the National Anthem.

The college graduates who run America including its sports industry and its reporting  are nearly all  low-lifes in my view.    They are jello with no core.    Their values are so shadowy, I have no confidence they can discern bad  from good…..  They know nothing of  “taste” which leads the list of horrors, and little of  ”truth” a close second..

But the public cannot sing the National Anthem any more.   It doesn’t know the words.   Even old  timers  like I am  who do know the words, are kept from singing from the heart, because the various sports industries introduce morons, teenie boppers, know-nothings, voiceless nincompoops to gurgle their way through a few words with strange melodies.

These empties of voice and mind have the stench of gall to appoach the microphone and regurgitate their ugliest sounds.   No wonder these days  there is so much contempt we have for our country the rest of the week listening to the president and other politicians making similar noises.

One venue  rose from the ashes of the garbage smell……a guy in a suit  approached the microphone….a guy  with a voice….a guy who knew the words, a guy who put every ounce of energy into this magnificent National Anthem to match the quality of his voice.   He sang with such power and majesty, I swear the seats at Soldier Field in Chicago shook with pride and glory as much as the awestruck audience.

But  leftist salesmen and women  don’t want us to be struck with power and majesty as Americans.   Sports organizers apparently agree.

We at Vikings-hole known as HumpDome or HumpDump  for years get our dose of vocal fecal matter  with each home game…..as do the loser Gophers at their college venues nearby.

Only once do I remember the Vikings honoring the Country and the National Anthem in tandem when, oh maybe ten years ago, some  Opera diva, a bit short and plumpish middle aged gal  nearly made the bubble explode……..And the crowd knew it and exploded in its gratitude, for the best National Anthem I have ever heard sung.

But, leftist America celebrates the tasteless…….that endless space of the mindless and inadequate to make us all feel good at being equally dense yet empty.    The left has been attacking the Anthem  piece throughout my adult life.   They insist Americans are too dumb to know the words, follow the melody, and should not  feel the majesty……It is a self fulling prophecy, for the Left at our universities program their student-victims to fit the role theyare  programmed  to play.

 

 

If Democrat Voter Fraud is a Factor in Minnesota, it is RANK in the Majority of States

Obama Democrats are bending their noses these days claiming Republicans are out to limit Voter participation.Since the American Maoist Cultkural Revolution of the late 1960s and since, the Marxist mobs have been expanding their ‘way of life’ whereever possible, succeeding, finally, in electing the suave, undereducation, half-American, strident, calculating, narcissist, Barack Hussein Obama, a natural product of a nation in decline morally, intellectually, spiritually, and educationally.Minnesota’s Junior Senator, Al Franken, is also a product of Voter Fraud.   In their verbal poisons Obama Democrats project unto others the corruption of their own deeds, assuming all Americans are as foul politically and economically as they are.   Their hero is a divider but campaigns deceptively as a ‘healer’ claiming racism and greed guide his enemies.   In truth, however, Mr. Obama himself has become a millionaire from racism and greed…….but with a more noble purpose, to create a one party system to establish the dictatorship of the equal, led by Obama Democrats. Obama Democrats advertise that Republicans are presently attempting to disenfranchize certain Americans from their voting rights……labor union and black folks…….the very communities ain which much of the nation’s fraud occurs.    Class and race warfare is the main ingredient in their porridge of poison infecting the United States of American.   Please read the following report: Minnesota Majority today released a report on voter fraud convictions stemming from Minnesota’s 2008 general election. The report finds that 113 individuals who voted illegally in the 2008 election have been convicted of the crime, “ineligible voter knowingly votes” under Minnesota Statute 201.014. “As far as we can tell, this is the largest number of voter fraud convictions arising from a single election in the past 75 years,” said Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis, “Prosecutions are still underway and so there will likely be even more convictions.” The highest number of convictions ever recorded in the United States came from the 1936 Jackson County, Missouri elections in which 259 individuals were convicted of voter fraud. A more recent five-year probe by the United States Department of Justice identified just 53 convictions for voter fraud nationwide. “It’s mind-boggling to me that as a tiny non-profit corporation, we netted more than double the number of convictions in one year than the US Department of Justice was able to find in five,” said Davis. Minnesota’s recent charges and convictions stem from research initiated by Minnesota Majority. The research identified upwards of 2,800 ineligible felons believed to have unlawfully voted in Minnesota’s 2008 general election. “These convictions are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Davis. “The actual number of illegal votes cast was in the thousands. Most unlawful voters were never charged with a crime because they simply pled ignorance. We have evidence of these people casting illegal ballots, but in Minnesota, ignorance of election law is considered to be an acceptable defense.” At the time of this report, nearly 200 additional cases are still pending trial. But time is running out for any additional cases to be prosecuted. The statute of limitations on election crimes is three years, and will expire for the 2008 election this November. Anyone who county attorneys have not charged by then will go free. “The problem rests largely on our current Election Day registration system,” said Davis. “Most of the fraudulent votes cast in 2008 could have been prevented by using the normal registration and verification processes. But since the Election Day registration process does not include eligibility verifications, it simply leaves the door open to these kinds of abuses.” Minnesota law requires voters to register at least 20 days before an election so that the information they provide and their eligibility to vote can be verified by election workers before they vote on Election Day. However, Election Day registration creates an exception. People who register at the polling place are given a ballot without first being subject to the same scrutiny. “This is an example of why creating two classes of voters is unacceptable,” said Davis. “You shouldn’t be subject to less scrutiny than everyone else, just because you waited until the last minute to register. Less responsible voters are allowed to cut in line and cast a ballot without being validated and this is what happens.” Investigations of voter fraud are also now underway from Minnesota’s 2010 election. (The above report was sent to me by Mark Waldeland.)

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More Sleaze Hits Obama Administration……Solyndra loan one of a kind

Treasury officials: Never saw a loan like Solyndra

 

By MATTHEW DALY

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Two senior Treasury officials said Friday that they had never seen a loan restructuring similar to an Energy Department loan to a failed solar panel maker.

The half-billion dollar loan to Solyndra Inc. was restructured earlier this year so that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment on part of the loan in case of a default.

Treasury officials Gary Grippo and Gary Burner told a House committee they had never seen that occur in a federal loan. Grippo is a deputy assistant treasury secretary and Burner is chief financial officer at the Federal Financing Bank, which made a $528 million loan to Solyndra in 2009.

The two Treasury officials stopped short of declaring the loan restructuring illegal, as some Republicans allege.

“I can’t give you a legal interpretation on that, sir,” Burner told Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.

Grippo, who oversees the financing bank, said it was not Treasury’s job to make legal interpretations. Instead, he said Treasury officials correctly raised questions about the deal in a series of emails and memos.

“Our role is to be as helpful as we can,” Grippo told the House Energy and Commerce Committee Friday.

Hours later, the panel’s Republican majority released an email showing that a White House budget official also questioned the loan restructuring.

“I think they have stretched this definition beyond its limits,” the budget official said in a December 2010 email, referring to DOE officials that were advocating the deal.

The release of the email came after a hearing on the Solyndra loan erupted in a partisan skirmish. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., called the hearing “a rigged proceeding” and a “kangaroo court.”

Solyndra, of Fremont, Calif., was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under a stimulus-law program to encourage green energy and was frequently touted by the Obama administration as a model. President Barack Obama visited the company’s headquarters last year, and Vice President Joe Biden spoke by satellite at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new manufacturing plant.

Since then, the company’s implosion and revelations that it received preferential treatment from federal officials have become an embarrassment for Obama and a focal point of GOP criticism of the president’s green energy policies.

Waxman and other Democrats on the House energy panel criticized Republicans for not allowing the Energy Department to testify Friday and for blocking the release of an Energy Department memo that outlined the legal basis for its decision to restructure the $528 million loan to Solyndra.

“We are going to get only one side of the story. That’s no way to run an investigation,” said Waxman, a former chairman of the energy committee.

Republicans said Democrats were aware of the hearing terms before it started, but later agreed to enter the Energy Department memo into the record. Energy officials will be called to testify at a later hearing.

Democrats say they want “to get the facts on the table,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas. “That’s what we’re trying to do.”

The three-hour hearing focused on newly released emails that show that the Treasury Department was concerned that the loan restructuring, approved earlier this year, could violate federal law.

Administration officials have defended the loan restructuring, saying that without an infusion of cash earlier this year, Solyndra would likely have faced immediate bankruptcy, putting more than 1,000 people out of work.

Even with the federal help, Solyndra closed its doors Aug. 31 and let all its workers go.

A six-page memo released by the committee Friday outlines the legal basis for the Energy Department’s decision to ensure that investors who provided additional funding to Solyndra would be repaid before the federal government if the company defaulted on the loan.

The Feb. 15 memo by Susan Richardson, the loan program’s top lawyer, said the restructuring was allowed because a clause preventing private investors from moving ahead of taxpayers only applies to the original loan.

Continuing to block subordination — the legal term for placing taxpayers’ interest second — is “inconsistent with the statutory scheme” and would make it harder for the government to restructure loans for troubled companies, Richardson wrote.

Under terms of the February loan restructuring, two private investors — Argonaut Ventures I LLC and Madrone Partners LP — stand to be repaid before the U.S. government if the solar company is liquidated. The two firms gave the company a total of $69 million in emergency loans. The loans are the only portion of their investments that have repayment priority above the U.S. government.

Argonaut is an investment vehicle of the George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa, Okla. The foundation is headed by billionaire George Kaiser, a major Obama campaign contributor and a frequent visitor to the White House.

Madrone Partners is affiliated with the Walton family, descendants of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Barton and other Republicans ridiculed the Richardson memo, which Barton likened to a “fairy tale” that allowed DOE officials to do whatever they wanted.

“They basically say, we think we can subordinate it because the secretary of Energy has broad authority to do whatever he wants to do. That’s not a real, reasoned legal opinion,” Barton said.

He and other GOP lawmakers cited emails from Mary Miller, an assistant treasury secretary, indicating that the deal could violate the law because it put investors’ interests ahead of taxpayers. Miller told a top White House budget official that she had advised that any proposed restructuring be reviewed by the Justice Department before it was approved.

“To our knowledge that has never happened,” Miller wrote in an Aug. 17 memo.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., called Miller’s memo “startling” and said it appears that DOE violated “the plain letter of the law” in approving the restructuring.

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., called the GOP claims overstated.

“There was no criminal or serious misbehavior here, there just was some dumbness,” Dingell said.

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