[oioiman]

It is time to take a hammer to the tired arse Lib-spew that this is anything like Whitewater.

[rwfromkansas]

Wow, something non-McCain-like from the Weekly Standard....bump!

[quimby]

Prevoiously posted here:

Enron and The Clintonites

[KQQL]

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[america-rules]

Everyone needs to send this to WAXMAN !

[america-rules]

Everyone needs to send this to WAXMAN !

[america-rules]

Everyone needs to send this to WAXMAN !

[america-rules]

Everyone needs to send this to WAXMAN !

[america-rules]

Everyone needs to send this to WAXMAN !

[Jewels1091]

What are the odds that this will make the major media??? How about we all email this to every one on capital hill? How would someone go about doing this?

[big bad easter bunny]

The collapse was Bush's fault, since he wouldn't allow the corruption to go on the Ponzi scheme finally fizzled.

[Diogenez]

Reports are that Clinton was photographed on a golfing date with Ken Lay. Lay and Enron were also big supporters of Anne Richards, GWB's predecessor as Texas Gov. and were big supporters of (name escapes me), a liberal Texas congresswoman. Chuck Shumer, Dem.Sen. of NY got $23,000 from Lay and Enron. The Repubs. got more money, but so far, it looks like the Dems. "hoed" out more for what they got.

[MJY1288]

"The Globe found that during the first Clinton term, 27 firms had donated $2.3 million to the Democrats and received nearly $5.5 billion in federal support."

What are the odds that this will be reported on the sunday talking head shows?

[dixiechick2000]

"Under Clinton, the Commerce Department was proud that it was finally using the might of the U.S. government to assist favored firms. But the enterprise was plagued by constant criticism that somehow it always seemed to be big political donors that got most of the help."

Well, that about sums it up!

[fellowpatriot]

It is time to take a hammer to the tired arse Lib-spew that this is anything like Whitewater.

It is like Whitewater to the extent of the way the fraud was allegedly carried out by Enron.

Check out Essay of the Week here

[Outraged]

bump

[snopercod]

Clinton scratched Enron's back, too, by signing the Energy Policy Act of 1992. From a "suggested letter to your legislators" at the Enron Wind Power website:

The wind PTC [Production Tax Credit] was originally enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to advance the development of wind energy. The PTC, along with major advancements in wind energy technology, has helped drive down the cost of utility-scale wind power by more than 80 percent over the last 20 years. The PTC provides a 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour tax credit (adjusted for inflation) for electricity produced from a wind facility. Only wind facilities that are generating power sold into the market are eligible for the credit.

The credit is currently set to expire on December 31, 2001. Extending the PTC will spur more development of wind-generated electricity thus helping avoid power shortages in the West, Midwest and Northeast. Greater use of wind energy also boosts rural economic development through land lease payments made to farmers and ranchers. These payments are typically in the range of $4000-$5000 per turbine, per year for 20 years!

For all of these reasons, I hope you will consider cosponsoring this important legislation to encourage the continued development of our domestic wind energy resources. To become a cosponsor of H.R. 876 and S. 530, please contact Senator Chuck Grassley's (R-IA) staff at (202) 224-3744.

I wonder if the loss of these tax credits had anything to do with Enron's demise.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The press corps is in full frenzy over what the Bush administration may or may not have done to help Enron

I noticed a subtle change in the coverage of the Enron collapse once the media began to detour from the "pack" and uncovered some of this Clinton-Democrat-Enron material. Petey Jennings declared that this scandal will surely be bad news for the Bush administration "every day leading up to the election of 2002" (paraphrase). JD Whatshisname (R-AZ) pointed out on CNN's Crossfire that the democrat from Florida he was debating actually accepted money from Enron. It was a hoot!

It will be interesting to watch the talking head shows today to see how this story has matured.

[Hugh Akston]

Au contraire. It is exactly like Whitewater- including the fact that it is a Clinton scandal. ;-)

[aristeides]

ON JULY 5, 1995, Enron Corporation donated $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Six days later, Enron executives were on a trade mission with Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor to Bosnia and Croatia. With Kantor's support, Enron signed a $100 million contract to build a 150-megawatt power plant.

I think that's got to be a mistake -- "1995" should be "1996," because Kantor only became Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's fatal flight of Apr. 3, 1996. Important to get these details right in such a politically charged matter.

[aristeides]

Enron president Joseph Sutton was on the trip to Bosnia during which Brown lost his life in a plane crash (Sutton was not on Brown's plane at the time).

This gets even more interesting. Sutton didn't miss the trip, like that head of DynCorp. He was on it, but, like Ira Sockowitz, he managed not to be on the fatal flight. And the article tells us Enron executives remained interested enough in Bosnia and Croatia to go on Kantor's trip a couple of months later.