So Ron Klain has no medical experience whatsoever, yet qualifies to be Obama’s Ebola Czar. If you want to know about Klain’s ‘judgement’ skills, lets go back to 2011 and Solyndra. Four years ago Valerie Jarrett (the un-elected acting POTUS) e-mailed then Biden chief of staff Ron Klain about Solyndra. Jarrett asked Klain his thoughts on Solyndra. Klain responded with:
Klain contacted Energy Department officials and then wrote back to Jarrett, saying “Sounds like there are some risk factors here – but that’s true of any innovative company that POTUS would visit. It looks like it is OK to me, but if you feel otherwise, let me know.”
So what happened with Solyndra? After half a billion in tax payer dollars, the solar panel company in California went belly up. This says a lot about Klain’s judgement. Feel better now that he is the Ebola czar?
If Klain’s judgement on Ebola is as good as it was on Solyndra, we’re screwed.
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| Ron Klain on Solyndra in 2010 – Looks OK to me |
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“I’m comfortable if you’re comfortable,” Jarrett wrote back.
Responded Klain: “The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few would be belly-up by election day 2012 – but that to me is the reality of saying that we want to help promote cutting edge, new economy industries.”
By October, Summers, Klain, and director of the Office of Energy and Climate Policy Carol Browner wrote a six-page memorandum to the President about the loan guarantee program, detailing the fights between the Department of Energy and OMB and giving the president four options to deal with the program, one of which would have terminated it altogether, seeking congressional approval to move the funds into a Department of Energy grant program.
House Democrats argue that the emails “show (1) there was vigorous internal debate among officials at the Department of Energy and the Office of Management and Budget about the Solyndra loan guarantee; (2) this debate was appropriately elevated to senior officials in the White House; and (3) the decisions involving Solyndra were made on the merits with no regard to the identity of the private investors.”