On Sunday, Republicans tried to fend off Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, by drawing the following analogy: Romney is to Bain Capital as President Obama is to Solyndra.It began on Fox News Sunday, when host Chris Wallace turned to his guest, DNC Chairwoman and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) with a question comparing Romney’s work at Bain to President Obama’s relationship to the failed solar energy company Solyndra, which went bankrupt after receiving a $535 million federal loan guarantee from the Department of Energy. “You go after Romney for laying off people, correct?” Wallace said. “Let me ask you about that. Is the President responsible for laying off the people of Solyndra?”
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