So Politicized That Even Democrats Should Be Embarrassed

The November 15, 2011 Washington Post (you know, the flaming liberal newspaper there) reports:

Solyndra’s chief executive warned the Energy Department on Oct. 25, 2010, that he intended to announce worker layoffs Oct. 28. He said he was spurred by numerous calls from reporters and potential investors about rumors the firm was in financial trouble and was planning to lay off workers and close one of its two plants.

But in an Oct. 30, 2010, e-mail, advisers to Solyndra’s primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explain that the Energy Department had strongly urged the company to put off the layoff announcement until Nov. 3. The midterm elections were held Nov. 2, and led to Republicans taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million) but have not committed to December yet,” a Solyndra investor adviser wrote Oct. 30. “They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.”

Even by the standards of politicians, this is incredibly bad.  They are not trying to delay the layoff announcement for a few months, in the hopes that the economy will turn around, or that the government might have an easier time raising the money to fund Solyndra--but transparently to influence election results.  Does Obama and his team of crooks have no shame?