Happy Anniversary

While you did not hear this in Obama's speech last night, yesterday was the one year anniversary of Solyndra's bankruptcy filing.

Romney v. Obama: Staples v. Solyndra

Hat tip to Instapundit.

Punching Back Twice as Hard

The Romney Campaign continues to impress:

Loud and rowdy supporters of Mitt Romney in Boston drowned out an attempt by President Obama campaign’s top strategist to attack the former Republican governor on his home turf.

In a morning news conference on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse,David Axelrod, one of Mr. Obama’s senior strategists, tried mostly in vain on Thursday to level Mr. Obama’s latest broadside on Mr. Romney’s record as governor of the state.

Instead, he was booed, heckled and chanted down by supporters of Mr. Romney who refused to let up even for a moment as Mr. Axelrod and Democratic state lawmakers sought to make their case.

With cameras rolling, the Republican hecklers yelled “We Want Mitt!” and “Broken Record!” and held signs that said “Go Back to Chicago!”

Better still:

Romney launched a sneak attack of his own, holding a news conference at the headquarters of Solyndra, the bankrupt solar energy company that received $535 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration. According to reporters traveling with Romney, the campaign did not tell the press about the event until the bus was actually on its way to Solyndra.

"The reason for keeping it quiet is because we knew if word got out that Solyndra would do everything in their power and the Obama administration would do everything in their power to stop us from having this news conference," a Romney aide told reporters, according to an ABC News account. "But taxpayers made a substantial investment in Solyndra, there are serious questions about what happened at Solyndra, why that investment was selected, what happened to that money."

 It's definitely not 2008 anymore.

Update:  In sending supporters to Axelrod rally, Romney fulfilled his promise.

New Campaign Ad

The Romney Campaign's latest ad highlights the billions in taxpayer dollars Obama wasted on Solyndra and other companies that subsequently failed. Companies that also happened to be backed by big Democratic donors.

In related news, Obama's Bain attacks continue to backfire, as the Administration struggles to explain the difference between private equity and Obama's public equity model.

Rep. Paul Ryan v. Former Obama Economic Adviser Austan Goolsbee

Hat tip to Gateway Pundit.

The Obama Adminstration's Top 15 "Achievements"

To counter conservative claims that the Obama administration has failed to achieve anything in three plus years, The Lid has compiled an entire list of notable achievements:

• Going to war in Libya without first seeking congressional approval.
• The administration's screwing of the primary GM investors so he could give the company to his buddies in the UAW.
• Offering Joe Sestak a White House job to drop out of the Senate race against Arlen Specter 
• Offering Andrew Romanoff a White House job to drop out of the Senate Race against Michael Bennett.
• Dropping an already won case against the New Black Panther's.
• Refusing to prosecute African Americans for Civil Rights violations. 
• Ignoring a court order to ease up on restrictions against deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, instead issuing tougher restrictions.
• Circumventing the Senate by setting up a "shadow cabinet" of Czars.
• Obama's Justice Department’s refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Ignoring his constitutional responsibility to defend laws passed by Congress.
• Firing (and slandering) AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin after because he was investigating Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson a friend of the Obamas.
• Practicing crony capitalism and wasting taxpayer money with Green energy loans to Solyndra and other failing companies. 
• No bid contract given to a company owned by major Obama donor for a small pox vaccine that doesn't work.
• Fast and Furious: Giving guns to Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to take away guns from law abiding Americans. 
•  Making recess appointments when congress was not in recess.
• Trampling on the Catholic Church's first amendment rights by forcing them to pay for procedures and drugs that their faith bans.
• The GSA and Secret Service scandals neither of which should be blamed on Obama directly, both of which show his poor management of the federal government.

Hat tip to the Astute Bloggers.

2010 Obama v. 2012 Obama

Discussing Solyndra.

So Obama now claims that Solyndra wasn't his administration's program, per se?  Of course, they were involved enough to pressure Solyndra into postponing planned layoffs until  after the November 2010 midterm elections.