Yeah, nothing corrupt about this at all.

The Obama administration knew before the 2010 election that Solyndra LLC, a solar-panel maker that received a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee, planned to fire workers, according to e-mails released today.

The messages don’t indicate that anyone from the White House directed Solyndra to delay announcing the layoffs until after the vote. Previously released e-mails, indicating the Energy Department urged Solyndra to postpone the cuts, have been cited by House Republicans who say politics influenced Solyndra’s award and last-ditch rescue bid that put taxpayers behind $75 million in private investment.

“Here’s the deal — Solyndra is going to announce they are laying off 200 of their 1200 workers,” Heather Zichal, a White House adviser, wrote to Carol Browner, then director of the office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, and other officials on Oct. 27, 2010. “No es bueno.”

No evidence the White House asked for a delay…yet. But remember, we’re being forced to learn about this bit-by-bit because the administration has been suppressing documents, only revealing them to Congress when they’re caught red-handed.

So give it a few weeks.

Why was Solyndra, backed by the Obama Administration and supported by Barack Obama personally, laying off workers? In an attempt to try and save the company and remaining jobs as a whole. Hey, Barack? You know who else did that? Mitt Romney. The same guy you’re attacking for “destroying” jobs.

Allahpundit:

The pushback here from the White House, I take it, will be that not every investment succeeds and that they shouldn’t be judged solely by the turkeys on their balance sheet. To which Mitt Romney, alleged cold-hearted layoff specialist, replies: Exactly.

Why, it’s almost as if you sometimes need to cut some jobs to save even more of them. As if painful austerity measures are sometimes required to save the venture as a whole.

Americans for Prosperity has just launched a $6 million swing state television ad campaign hitting on this very issue: