[NonMerci]

Lay was a major contributor to the gwbush campaign, and some say one of gwb's closest friends. Rove, and others in the bush admin used to "work" for enron. Cheney held a secret energy meeting (can anyone say Hillary?) that likely included a few enron top execs and still refuses to make details public. This board was in an uproar re: whitewater, but enron has largely been given the silent treatment.

But you go right ahead and try to blame the current mess on x42.

[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."