Race to impeach: Solyndra or Fast and Furious?
October 6, 2011 by Don Surber

Two evolving scandals are neck to neck in the race to impeach President Obama. While Fast and Furious — the ATF gun-running for Mexican drug lords — is the more imaginative of the two scandals, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns are following the money on Solyndra. Keep the dreamy name (adding gate to it would ruin the charm). They have the edge as they already are at what-did-he-know and when-did-he-know-it stage.

First, the latest on Fast and Furious, from the Houston Chronicle:


WASHINGTON — The new acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday he was reassigning 11 of the agency’s top officials in a bid to rebuild ATF after Operation Fast and Furious, in which agents let U.S.-purchased guns slip into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones said the reshuffling will help the agency focus on its “core missions of violent crime and public safetyâ€