Enron = Whitewater?

National Review ^ | 01/11/2002 | Byron York

[lowbridge]

No, but the White House should welcome a major investigation.

And it's doing just that.

[billorites]

As someone on FR quipped, "What's the big deal? Laura Bush short Enron?"

[MeekOneGOP]

Enron = Whitewater?

Thanks for posting this!

The media and the leaders of the "Class Warfare Party" (DIMocRATS) will be sorely disappointed that this QUAGMIRE is a dry well like the one they were calling for in the early going in Afghanistan.

See also:

Enron-White House Dealings Probed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/606163/posts

[PJ-Comix]

Over at the DUmmy Forums, the DUmmies are desperately grasping at the Enron bankruptcy as a way to bring down Bush. Just about every other post there is about Enron. The DUmmies have been angered over Bush's high popularity and are now pinning all their hopes on the Enron situation. They will be sorely disappointed. However, it is funny to see them cling so desperately to their Enron "lifeline." It is the ONLY thing that gives them hope.

[newzjunkey]

Ah! My predication comes true; I've said the Dems would try to turn this into Bush's "Whitewater". The press is finally catching on. Let them investigate and *really* waste the taxpayer's money chasing wishful thinking. One more reason to vote them out in '02.

[steve50]

Thank God they got the shredders running at Anderson, show the Dims we can both play that game.

[dead]

Thank God they got the shredders running at Anderson, show the Dims we can both play that game.

Who’s this we? The Bush Administration is not Arthur Andersen any more than the Clinton Administration was Microsoft.

[Leto]

Actually they folks at Anderson are covering their own asses and those of the Clinton administration who helped them extort business overseas throughout the 90's.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank God they got the shredders running at Anderson, show the Dims we can both play that game.

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That's really not a good game to play. Enron is now in deep doo-doo, and if they did that it will give the DIMocRATS fuel I think. I think Bush would never have done anything underhanded or illegal. He will let the investigation go forward (as he should) and let the chips fall as they may. The investigations should exonerate him - hopefully before the elections are close at hand. No doubt the DIMocRATS will try to drag it out to take political advantage. . .

[dead]

With a Republican in office, "investigative journalism" will suddenly awaken from it's eight-year hibernation with "America's homeless."

Bring it on.

[AppyPappy]

"American and Northwest Airlines and others have received federal tax subsidies as a result of the September 11th atrocities. Boeing received what Senator Phil Gramm recently called the most outrageous, largest example of pork spending he's ever seen in his entire Senate career. In essence, the federal government is going to enter into long-term leases for Boeing airplanes at above market prices rather than buying the planes outright at much cheaper bulk prices. According to the office of the secretary of the Senate, these three companies - American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and Boeing - are represented by LINDA Daschle. She is a lobbyist. She is the wife of (Senate Majority Leader) Tom Daschle."
- RushLimbaugh.com, 1/4/02

[AppyPappy]

Ann Richards put Ken Lay (head of Enron) in charge of G.B.C.

[Vladiator]

Enron is going to make the Whitewater hearings look like my traffic ticket trial last year:

Judge: Were you parked in the red zone?
Me: No, you honor.
Judge: Officer?
Officer: Yes he was your honor.
Judge: What do you say to that, son?
Me: I wasn't, your honor.
Judge: Got any pictures?
Me: No, your honor.
Judge: Pay the fifty bucks, son, it will be cheaper in the long run.
Me: Yes sir.
Judge: Next case...

[aomagrat]

If there is no evidence against Bush and the Republicans the liberals will make some up. The liberal media is already dancing in Bush's blood, and feeding the sheeple tripe. And the sheeple will believe them. That's how clinton got re-elected and gore almost got elected.

I hope I am wrong.

[deport]

One thing for sure......

When you say "Whitewater" it is associated with the Clintons and their minions. They are hoping that Enron becomes the same in association with President Bush and will push to make it happen. I doubt there is much there that can be tied to the President in just one year. So they will have to dig in the Texas arena to see what they can get from the Governor level.

[AppyPappy]

On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack 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 magazine. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave $100,000 to President Clinton'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, TIME's Michael Weisskopf reported.

[dead]

Nice. That one's a keeper.

Where are you coming up with this stuff? (You've never struck me as a gumshoe before...)

[steve50]

Enron doesn't look too bad here. This is just a problem with "account reporting" guidelines. It should be impossible to prove a conspiracy, with Anderson destroying the evidence. All we have to do is make some changes in reporting procedures and this will go away.