A Politico item suggesting Obama’s Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, may not be up to the job is getting a good deal of buzz. Earlier yesterday, it was an item by James Carville suggesting some administration heads need to start to roll. Is Daley being set-up to be the first one to fall? Stay tuned.
Bill Daley is off to a very rocky start.
Several important questions remain unanswered as regards the failure of the White House’s pet solar company, Solyndra. The White House email trail on the company continues to be in the news. Let the sunshine in, as they say. It is solar energy we’re talking about, after all.
Curious: 5 weeks before it declared bankruptcy, Solyndra sold its Accounts Receivable and Inventory to an entity called Solyndra Solar II. This company had been registered in Delaware just the day before. Because of the sale, these assets are not available to pay off creditors. The agent for the sale was Argonaut Solar. (Argonaut is a name used in many ventures of billionaire and Obama-donor George Kaiser.)
Meanwhile, a NJ State Senator is asking Gov. Christie to do away with a $420k tax credit for the production ofJersey Shore. Hopefully Chriwtie can hook up with Snookie and work it all out. Hopefully any highlights will make their way to YouTube.
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever has resigned from the lofty American Physical Society over the Global Warming debate:
“In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?” he wrote in an email to Kate Kirby, executive officer of the physics society.
“The claim … is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period,” his email message said.
So much for the science being settled.
While Rick Perry continues to enoy his new found front runner status, his inability to effectively close the deal in recent debates is leading some to speculate as to whether or not he will prove to be vulnerable at a future date. It’s early and a lot can happen between now and November 2012.
A Texas execution has been halted by Supreme Court review. It’s unclear if having it in the news just now is good, bad or irrelevant to Perry’s run for the GOP nomination.
In financial news, European stocks are advancing for now, while US futures continue to lag.
The Europeans kicked the Greek question down the road until October. Greece is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and Europe is trying to figure out how much more of their taxpayers’ money they want to sink into Athens.
Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner warns that the whole Greek situation poses a “catastrophic risk.” Well, he ought to know.
Meanwhile, the EU is continuing its investigation of Google and whether the companies abuses its dominant position in internet search. The company could face billions in fines.
26 states saw an increase in their unemployment rate in August. 12 were unchanged.
Hope & Change: More Americans ‘doubling up’ in homes, living with parents:
Thanks Dick Durbin! Citi is raising monthly fees and canceling its rewards program on debit card purchases. The move is the long-predicted result of Congress’ sweetheart deal to retailers over transaction fees.
With friends like these: Jimmy Carter has nice things to say about Romney, Bachmann.
If horse feathers was an expression meaning nonsense, what should one make of dinosaur feathers? Evidently that’s not nonsense at all and here’s an illustrated item to prove it. Unlike pigs, most feathered dinosaurs were not believed to fly.
And, finally, how about those close ties between Solyndra execs and the White House. From an email sent by Solyndra spokesman David Miller to a White House aide:
“If you tire of the White House life and ever decide you want to move out with your best friends in [California] let me know,” Miller emailed to White House special assistant Johanna Maska the day after the visit. He added that “we could find you a great corporate gig very quickly.”
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