As Tim Carney argues in his latest column, many Republicans are missing the point of the Solyndra story:

The most telling moment of last week’s House subcommittee hearing on Solyndra was a back-and-forth between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Phil Gingrey.
Markey pointed out that solar companies aren’t the only energy companies getting federal loan guarantees. Power giant Southern Co. won a $3.4 billion loan guarantee from the Obama Energy Department last summer.
Gingrey, of Georgia, didn’t like Markey “comparing Solyndra, this bankrupt company, totally unproven technology, to the Southern Company.” Gingrey pointed out that “Southern Company owns Mississippi Power, Alabama Power, Georgia Power, among others, and employs literally thousands of people.”
The implication was clear: Federal subsidies to big, established companies are fine. It’s the handouts to these upstarts that are objectionable.
So Gingrey is embracing the heart of Obamanomics — the proposition that government ought to be an active partner in shaping the economy and helping business — while objecting to the administration’s behavior in one case.

As Tim goes on to explain, Gingrey is far from alone: Republicans have more than their fair share of Solyndras, which is why so few of them are really willing to go after what he rightly calls “government-business collusion.”