Solyndra: Obama's Marble Boat

Clarice Feldman writes for The American Thinker and compares the hoax set up by Obama to help his contributors to the famous marble boat that Dowager Empress Cixi had constructed for her sailing pleasure on the lake near her palace in Kunming. China famously went down the tubes in the fifteenth century because its fantastic flair for innovation threatened the Mandarin bureaucrats whose jobs would be in jeopardy if new inventions changed the landscape. Like the Democrats, the Mandarins chose bureaucratic authoritarianism over capitalist innovation.

That's why China spent the next 500 years sliding south toward Antarctica.