Bush Calls For Probe Into Enron

news.ft.com ^ | Joshua Chaffin and Julie Earle | 12/29/01

[paltz]

Hmmm...So much for being an obstructionist....

[lewislynn]

Hmmm...So much for being an obstructionist....

Who said anything about obstructionist?

More like CYA....

[paltz]

The liberals had their claws ready to get Bush on his connection to Enron's donations to the republican party. Rememeber all the probes reps asked for on companies connected to Clinton?

[onyx]

Democrats have been out-smarted and hung-out to twist in the wind by our magnificent President Bush, (the dimwit, so they thought).

[steelie]

And visa verse to Grey Davis

[lewislynn]

Rememeber all the probes reps asked for on companies connected to Clinton?

No, nor do I care, Clinton's not President anymore.

Are we suposed to say Clinton sucked but Bush doesn't suck as much, so Bush is better?

They all take lots of money from wherever they can get it. They all (both parties) play the same blame game and this one happens to be BIG....

The $550,025 that the Enron Corp. gave Bush over the years makes it his No. 1 career patron,

POWER SCAM: THE ENRON BUSH CONNECTION

Am I saying it's wrong?...No, but it doesn't look good either.

BTW, I can't find the article but Bush had Lay appointing/approving cabinet members for him too.....

[Texasforever]

BTW, I can't find the article but Bush had Lay appointing/approving cabinet members for him too.....

If you can't prove it, then don't say it.

[nopardons]

Umsibstanciated RUMORS and PROPAGANDA do NOT cut it, here.

[nunya bidness]

Umsibstanciated RUMORS and PROPAGANDA do NOT cut it, here.

What you said. (hic!)

Tell it sister!

[nopardons]

Oh you poor thing. Maybe an AA meeting would be a better place, than FR , to get the help you need. : - )

[revtown]

Look what happened to Clinton's biggest supporter during his years, Tyson.
They grew and grew, used INS to allow them to get cheap labor.
Now look at Bush's, Enron, their bankrupt.
Bush really pulled some strings for them..

[cerberus]

My thoughts also.

I was at an event yesterday where a partisan speaker proclaimed that this would be "Whitewater" for Bush. If this had been Clinton the company would not have failed because he would have breached any ethical boundary to save them.

Kudos to Bush on this one.

[kristinn]

Lay was vetting FERC appointees. It was reported in the New York Times over Memorial Day weekend.

[cake_crumb]

"Senior management at the stricken energy trader and the Republican party are known to have close relationships."

Hmmm, no mention of the investigation into Enron funneling illegal campaign donations to Democrats in this article. Innocent ommission?

[Elle Bee]

Dems Let Enron Off the Hook - GOP got the campaign contributions and the Dems play nice ~ WSJ.

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[rdavis84]

"The current Bush administration is also studded with Enron connections. Secretary of the Army Thomas White is a former high-ranking Enron executive, and Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade representative, was a paid member of Enron's advisory board. The Washington consulting firm run by Lawrence Lindsey, the White House's top economic advisor, worked for Enron. And other top officials, including Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist and I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, both owned huge chunks of Enron stock when they joined the Bush administration. It's also worth remembering that at the end of the first Bush administration, Enron hired chief of staff James Baker and Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher."

"One thing that should come up in the hearings is then-Gov. Bush's October 1997 telephone call on behalf of Lay to then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to help Enron crack into the tightly regulated Pennsylvania electricity market.

"I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on," Lay told the New York Times about the 1997 phone call, "and I said that it would be very helpful to Enron, which is obviously a large company in the state of Texas, if he could just call the governor [of Pennsylvania] and tell him [Enron] is a serious company, this is a professional company, a good company."

Since we now know Enron lacked those virtues, it's clear Bush was used to sell a bill of goods to the unsuspecting Pennsylvania folks.

[cake_crumb]

Thanks. That was one I missed. Here's another one:

Enron Defends Timing of Checks for Democrats

[Elle Bee]

thank you ..... I'll keep them together

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