The Obama administration is beginning to sound as discombobulated as that other Harvard personality Elizabeth Warren. Here, for instance, is Obama’s mouthpiece explaining the difference between Solyndra and Bain Capital today:
Reporter: Last thing. If that’s the argument, how is that different from Romney’s argument on Bain Capital, which is that many succeeded and a few failed?
Carney: Look, there, there, there is the… the difference in that… your overall view of what your responsibilities are as president, and what your view of the economic future is. And, and the president believes, as he’s made clear, that a president’s responsibility is not just to, uh… those who win, but those who, for an example, in a company where there have been layoffs or a company that has gone bankrupt, that, you know, we have to make sure that those folks have the means to find other employment, that they have the ability to train for other kinds of work, and that’s part of the overall responsibility the president has.
I can’t decide whether his nickname should be ZerO or, uh, ZorrO.
Amateur hour at the WH
One important difference between Bain and Solyndra is that of choice. You and your pension fund manager have the choice whether to invest in Bain Capital, or not. This is called freedom. You were not given any choice when your tax money was wasted on Solyndra. That is called compulsion, or government.