DOWN IN Houston only hours after Enron's Andrew Fastow had been indicted on 78 counts for economic misdeeds, there was the very free-wheeling Ken Lay, once lord of all he surveyed in this oil town which Enron has almost destroyed. Mr. Lay came sailing into the Café Griglia as if the newspapers hadn't just reported that government prosecutors were zeroing in on him. He worked the tables like he was running for office and behaved as if he were still the most popular guy in town. I think if I had done to Houston and the economy what Ken Lay has done, I'd stay safely in Aspen.
Of course, the rumors have it that Uncle Sam is trying to put together an airtight game plan - first, they nail Fastow, then, they get Ken Lay.
But-but-but I thought George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were protecting their "Kenny Boy," to hear the unbiased media tell it.