It Ain't Easy Being Green

Barack Hussein Obama's green economy isn't working out so well.

"The guy got dealt a bad hand," said a top environmental consultant. "But he's played a bad hand very badly."

It's an emerging consensus coming from the left and the right: While Obama was once viewed as a victim of things he can't control — faulty blowout preventers, a tsunami, gas prices, the tea party — critics on both sides of the aisle say his administration has made matters worse.

"If you've got an agenda bouncing along with no vision and things happen, you look reactive, and they are," said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former economic adviser to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

With Solyndra and the lost $535 million loan guarantee, Obama's entire renewable energy portfolio is likely to be on a permanent state of defense thanks to administration missteps in how it handed out stimulus money.

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