If politicians run a business,

it will be run for political purposes. According to emails, the Dept. of Energy interfered with the timing of layoff announcements at Solyndra. According to one email:

They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.

By complete coincidence, November 2, 2010 was the date of the mid-term elections.