“How was Enron a “Republican scandal”? “
Perhaps my point was too subtle. Ken Lay (CEO Enron) was a big donor to the G.W. Bush campaign in 2000, yet he was prosecuted by the Republican Bush administration. Rightly or wrongly the GW Bush administration did turn federal investigators loose on Republicans for real and imagined wrongdoings but ignored flagrant Democrat wrongdoing. A missed opportunity. When Democrats are in power they use power to protect their own and destroy the opposition. When Republicans are in power they go after their own and ignore the transgressions of the opposition.
Though it was widely assumed Ken Lay was a "Republican donor", he was anything but. He may have been a Bush donor in 2000, but his roots were in the Democrat party and he chaired and supported Ma Richards' finance committee against Bush in 1994.
The media called Enron a "Republican scandal" because Enron was a Texas firm. But it was a Democrat administration that Enron engaged in their corruption. Enron was always a "Democrat (Clinton) Scandal".
Not that anybody will ever know... Sigh.