Posted on 01/10/2002 8:07:52 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
Janet Reno Kin Outraged Over Bush-Enron Scandal
The brother of former Attorney General Janet Reno complained bitterly on Tuesday that President George Bush is escaping "deserved heat" for his ties to collapsed Texas-based energy giant Enron.
In his regular column for Newsday, Robert Reno decried what he said were "the Bush family's intimate connections to Enron [and] the company's vast contributions to Bush campaigns," saying "you need a crow bar to separate Enron's allegiance to both Bush administrations."
Protests that investigators haven't been tough enough on the White House are something new for Mr. Reno.
In contrast to his call for a tougher Enron probe, the Newsday columnist regularly defended his sister's decision not to appoint an independent counsel to probe the Clinton White House's Chinagate scandal.
But that was then, this is now.
And now - without identifying himself as the brother of a key Clinton Cabinet member or noting that his sister is running against first brother Jeb Bush for Florida governor - Robert Reno says the Bush family's ties to Enron deserve far more scrutiny.
"It's as if Bush has been inoculated with an immunity no known virus can invade," he fumed.
"Only in the Bush-can-do-no-wrong atmosphere of current Washington does such a scandal resist the sort of smelly exposure and inquiry that accompanied every misjudgment of the eight years of Bill Clinton."
I think it's a mistake for the Democrats to do it this way. As more info comes out, (1) it will be shown that Enron asked for help from the Bush administration and they turned Enron down and (2) lo and behold, Democrats received lots of money from Enron, too; and the Clinton administration was very close with Enron.
Gee...looks like between January and November 2001 (about 11 months) ETHICS were returned to this nation. Enron couldn't BUY their way into the Administration to continue to prop up their business?
Put some ice on it pal, then go wrestle one of Mom's gators at the homestead...
LOL! If I were related in any way, I would be ashamed to admit it. I guess that didn't stop the idiots in this story.
I'd be less ashamed to admit being related to Charles Manson than that murderous and treasonous bitch.
Their whole mode of operation is "projection". Projection is a psychological maneuver wherein you "project" upon your enemy those actions which you in actuality are doing yourself.
This article really tells me the dems know full well x42's involvement in Enron and they are trying the old "projection" technique to try to cover their own tracks. President Bush was right, "we are dealing with an old thing" (we know how the dems operate), while they are "dealing with a new thing" (they don't know how to deal with "W").
Doing the same as he is now, peddling yellow ink. Reno equals truth, an oxymoron if there ever was one.
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