Toldja: Steven Chu proving to be the worst choice for Energy Secretary ever
My boyfriend Justin hates when I do this — and I readily admit it’s irritating — but I need to give the world a big TOLDJA SO, Nikke Finke-style, in regards to Energy Secretary Steven Chu…who today admits the Solyndra loans were his fault, because he didn’t know any better.
When the Obama Administration began, it was clear to me that Steven Chu was the worst choice made in the Cabinet. I realize that’s saying a lot, considering Tim Geithner’s record in the Treasury and the mess Janet Napolitano’s made at Homeland Security, but from Day One Steven Chu has had no clue in Hades what he’s doing.
I remember the first week in his new job, Chu was asked about the Energy Department’s role in setting energy prices and Chu had no idea what part as Secretary he played in this. He, in fact, couldn’t give a solid description of what, exactly, the Secretary of Energy did.
By all accounts, Steven Chu is a very nice man…and a Nobel Prize winner (though, considering the fact Obama himself has one of those, for not actually achieving anything, it’s kind of like winning a Grammy or a Daytime Emmy at this point)…but he’s never been a manager of anything and has no idea what to do in an executive position.
Give him a lab and a team of grad students, and I’m sure he could work wonders…or at the very least, invent Flubber.
Put him in a Cabinet position, and Steven Chu approves the Solyndra debacle.
It was obvious from the very beginning that something like this would happen, because Obama chose Chu for the position because he wanted to have a “historic and unprecedented first ever Asian Secretary of Energy”, who happened to have a Nobel Prize on his resume.
It’s no surprise that the “historic and unprecedented first ever black President”, who happens to have a Nobel Prize on his resume, set the stage for the Solyndra disaster by naming Chu to the Cabinet in the first place.
Putting people in executive decision making positions just because they have the right PC, aesthetic look never turns out well, does it?
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It may be that he is just falling on his sword to take the heat off the administration for this mess. I for one hope it doesn't work.
i was wondering the same thing. is this to keep obamao from taking the heat? is this precedence for more serious stuff, such as gunrunner?
A Nobel Prize in the sciences is still an actual accomplishment.
But, but, but …Chu's so smart! I just don't understand why someone so credentialed, who has spent almost his entire career an academia and scientific research, was unable to accurately judge which businesses would be successful.
Isn't this exactly what's wrong with the Obama administration – a bunch of academics attempting to control something (the economy) in which they have no real-world experience?
Yeah, I think he is the designated fall guy too. But he is also like Robert McNamara, thinking that experience in one field can be used in another.
this douche knocker Chu has given out an additional 5 billion in our money to solar companies in the last week or so