Solyndra Update - Why Would a Democratic Congressman Not Want to Issue Subpoenas?

By now, everyone knows what really happened with Solyndra.   This is actually a simple story:  the government has hundreds of billions of dollars to spend in "stimulus."   Pigs will inevitably line up at that trough, and some of those pigs are dirty.   Solyndra was a dirty pig, a Potemkin village of a company that had a big new  building and lots of employees but not very many sales of its solar power technology.   Essentially they defrauded the U.S. of more than half a billion.   But, of course, you can't cheat an honest man.   The Obama administration needed Solyndra too, as a photo-op for the President's "green jobs" mantra.   So you had a flim-flam man on one side, and a pie-in-the-sky lottery-ticket-buying President on the other.    What could go wrong?

So why exactly would Congressman Ed Markey (D - Mass.) not want to issue subpoenas to investigate this mess?  

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Here's an equation for you:  

Solyndra + Gunwalker + Low Approval Polls = Evan Bayh