http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/18Sen. McConnell's tirade about the Solyndra debacle would've had a lot more moral punch if it were not for Zap Motors.
Whatever else you think about tea-party-infused Republican leaders in Congress, at least they're consistent in their opposition to big government intrusion in the economy, right?
Absolutely. Unless you count intrusions of taxpayer funds into corporate projects back in their districts.
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In 2009, even as the Kentucky senator was loudly deriding Obama's original stimulus program, he was quietly urging Obama's energy secretary to give a quarter-billion-dollar loan guarantee to Zap for a clean-energy plant it wanted to build in McConnell's state.
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