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>>>The sudden collapse of Enron has turned the company into a political liability, especially for President George. W. Bush and congressional Republicans who had close ties to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, Bush's friend and biggest political backer.

Do a little rerearch, without Clinton there would have been no Enron.

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And yet they were audited each and every one of those years. How on earth did that happen? Has California paid the money it owes to Enron yet?

Sorry, can't figure out what Bush had to do with all of this, especially since the profits have been misstated for the last four years.

They can try to lay this at Bush's feet, but I have this strange feeling that as they dig in, they're going to find something that will tar the democrats black as coal. Something is going to lead right back to Clinton. Mark my words.

Let the political games begin! The Democrats will view Enron as payback for Whitewater and Monica.

Anybody have any predictions on how many Bush Administration members will have to resign?

How about Bush and Cheney, are they vulnerable?

Should the State of Texas have had any oversite responsibilities for Enron?

Administration ties to Enron include several relationships, in addition to Lay's friendship with Bush. Lawrence Lindsey, Bush's chief economic adviser, was on the company's advisory board and received $50,000 from them last year. Karl Rove, Bush's political adviser, once owned $60,000 worth of Enron stock. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick was also a member of the company's advisory board, and Secretary of the Army Thomas White, a former Enron executive, valued his company stock at between $25 million and $50 million earlier this year.

The case they will make will be to repeat this over and over, with concerned looks on their faces.

Bill Clinton a friend of Ken Lay - received $100,000 from Enron 4 years ago

September 01, 1997 THE WHITE HOUSE THAT INVISIBLE MACK SURE CAN LEAVE HIS MARK BY MICHAEL WEISSKOPF/WASHINGTON Time Magazine In Part:

For a man who had supposedly vanished from the corridors of power, MACK MCLARTY was the man to see in 1996. BILL CLINTON's former chief of staff, now a White House counselor tucked away in the basement, provided assistance to businessmen who ponied up $1.5 million for the Democrats in the last election. On Nov. 22, 1995, for example, Clinton scrawled an FYI note to McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, KEN LAY, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the President's party. Enron denies that its gift was repayment for Clinton's attention, and White House special counsel LANNY DAVIS says McLarty acted out of concern for a major U.S. investment overseas.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be a McLarty pattern. At Clinton's request, he met with international oil consultant ROGER TAMRAZ and asked the Energy Department if the Administration could not be more supportive of his Caspian Sea pipeline proposal (Tamraz' contribution: $200,000). And last week the Washington Post reported that Davis says McLarty acted "appropriately" in every case.

Hey, investigate ME!!! I vote republican, and I owned Enron stock!!! I even sold it last year for a huge profit!!!! I must have ties to Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, GW Bush, and Dick Cheney. I even DIDN'T invest in Halliburton personally before it fell from 40 to 13, I must be on the inside somehow!!! GW and the veep must personally be giving me investing tips!!!!!

``We know that there was a favorable climate in the Bush administration for Enron, but what's not clear is how they benefited from that favorable climate,'' said Karen Lightfoot, a spokeswoman for Waxman.
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Enron, once one largest energy traders, slid toward bankruptcy in November after disclosing that profits it had reported to shareholders and the government during the past four years were overstated by $586 million. The company's shares, which began the year at $83.13, closed yesterday at 60 cents.

How do they explain that the Bush administration helped Enron?

..."The Democrats from day one have tried to politicize energy,'' Vice President Richard Cheney's spokeswoman, Mary Matalin, said. ``This is just more of the same.'' ">...

Oh,sheet, people......we heard this same BS just a few short years ago.....it went something like this, "The Republicans from day one have hated President Clinton and this talk of impeachment is just trying to politicize SEX", President Bill Clinton's spokesperson, Mike McCurry, said.

Amazing how the horse pockey just keeps getting tossed back and forth between these two prostituted entities, the Demicans and Republocrats! They only care about their own arses; the Country can go to hell as they play their little came of Charades.

One has only to look at the so-called Campaign Finance hearings held by Senator Fred Thompson, R-TN.....those sure came to a screeching halt when the possibility of real evidence against both parties was about to surface!

Get ready for Enron--Campaign Finance Reform II.