"they pushed pretty hard to get it done before they left office but couldn't get it done. "
The Bush administration denied the application in December 2008 saying it needed further review. Solyndra officials were still chasing it with the Bush administration in January of 2009.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/16/solyndra-pestered-bush-administration-over-delays-in-approving-federal-loan/The Obama administration resurrected it and approved it over the negative recommendation from the people doing the screening process.
The bureaucrats who rejected the application made a prediction of when the company would fail. They nailed it to the exact month and year.
"runs out of cash in September 2011"
http://betweenthenumbers.net/2011/09/535-million-u-s-loan-to-solyndra-was-predicted-to-be-a-failure/ 
