Posted on 01/10/2002 8:23:49 PM PST by doug from upland
Maybe the RATS will concentrate on a dead end and damage themselves even more. Hey, this took moronic Tommy Daschel off the front page.
EWWWWW!!
I think Enron, like the stem cell research 'issue', is going to be a flash in the pan. Actually, I think the Enron debacle will be more interesting to watch.
I find it hard to believe that the lamestream media is trying to link Enron to the administration...and I'm guilty of it too.
TIME Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 VOL. 150 NO. 9 NOTEBOOK
THE SCOOP
THE WHITE HOUSE
THAT INVISIBLE MACK SURE CAN LEAVE HIS MARK
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). It was McLarty who directed a White House lawyer to query the Justice Department about a case protested by VANCE OPPERMAN, head of a legal publishing house (contribution: $350,000). The counselor arranged a White House meeting for Miami computer executive MARK JIMENEZ to discuss political unrest in an important Latin American market (contribution: $325,000). And last week the Washington Post reported that McLarty helped get a Clinton audience for Federal Express chairman FRED SMITH and his concerns about Japanese trade practices. Contribution: $525,000. Davis says McLarty acted "appropriately" in every case.
--By Michael Weisskopf/Washington
The short answer is "No". Because there was no misbehavior on his part, I am confident.
That will not keep the Dems from trying, however. Or the press from suggesting that there is a link...
In the end, they'll chip a few points off the approval rating. Which is all I suspect they hope to accomplish, anyway.
The rats have way too much stink in this and pinning it on Bush is not going to happen.
Cramer said he was blasted three years ago for talking down enron and he caught hell from his dem friends--he now says he was right and all this happened under the rats control of the white House !
He also said the rats were nuts for blaming the recession on Bush !
The Clinton administration has a much more difficult problem with Enron in comparison. They took money from Enron and then used their influence to assist Enron offshore. And even that is not probably not illegal.
The Dems. better drop this Enron stuff. It will go nowhere for them. The outfit that will take the big hit will be the one "Big 5" accounting firm. And they will be bankrupt soon too.
And prosecute the criminals.
It's that easy.
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