Good stuff, dead.
Posted on 01/11/2002 6:27:20 AM PST by codebreaker
Wishing won't make it so
The Dems are such neophytes at whipping up public frenzy to tie Bush to the Enron collapse they have started an E-Mail campaign pleading (some say threatening) journalists to dig harder.
Don Van Atta Jr., the New York Times go-to guy for scandal connect-the-dot stories must have been on their list.
He's on the case already but is still forced to add the following sentence: "Although no one has suggested Bush has done anything wrong."
Stay Tuned.
Enron boredom looms.
AND
-Lloyd Bensten, Clintons first treasury secretary was a recipient of Enrons largesse. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received the second largest donation from Enron according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
-Robert Rubin, Benstens successor, was involved with Enron while he worked as an investment banker Goldman & Sachs. Clinton first hired Rubin to head his National Economic Council. Soon afterwards, Rubin wrote on Goldman Sachs stationery to former clients, including Enron, in which he ''looked forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity.''
-In Aug. 1993, McLarty arranged an invitation for Lay to play golf with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar White, chief executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped the Clinton election campaign raise funding. These connections to the Democratic administration have helped Enron considerably -Ken Silverstein Counterpunch
-Clinton officials publicly helped Enron win the contract in India as well as in Indonesia. Enron had received U.S. government funds to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior U.S. government officials on state trips. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the DNC.
-According to the Houston Chronicle, Enron got permission to build a pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa after National Security Adviser Anthony Lake threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it didnt approve the project.
-The bulk of Enron's alleged chicanery had to have happened during the Clinton administration.
- Lee. P Brown (D) of Houston received $250,000 just before Enron filed Chapter 11. Enron campaigned against the conservative candidate for mayor.
-Kenneth Lay hired the firm of Clinton's former chief of staff Mack McLarty.
-The Center for Responsive Politics lists Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York, John Breaux of Louisiana, and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico--chair of the Senate Energy Committee--among the top beneficiaries of Enron's political donations
-Kenneth Lay retained as his top D.C. lobbyist Linda Robertson, a Democrat who worked for the Clinton Treasury Department.
-Dynegy greased Henry Waxman's palms with thousands of dollars.
-Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee received three checks from the Houston-based energy and trading giant totaling $100,000. Karen Denne, an Enron spokeswoman, said the company had a record of two checks written to the committee -- dated Sept. 24 and Nov. 2
- No. 20 on the Enron money list since 1989 is the Senate's leading Democrat, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
-Enron was apparently a big backer of the Kyoto Treaty .
Before I check out the link, let me guess which 11 years... hmmmm....
You are incredible! ;-)
What a coincidence!
They are Dims. They can't be insulted.
One thing is for sure. The Enron story is THE next big political scandal and both sides of the aisle are desperately trying to make it look like it is the other side's fault. Given the media's bias, I say the Right side has some REAL work ahead.
I said this on another thread: (1) It will almost surely come out that Enron begged for help from the Bush administration and the administration declined -- they went bankrupt, what help could the Bush administration have given? (2) Democrats, including the Clinton administration, were tied to Enron.
I say the worst day for the Bush administration was yesterday. The more research that's done, the better the administration looks and the worse the Democrats look.
Good stuff, dead.
Nope,not gonna happen. Not unless it is as a watered-down one-day story buried in the back pages. Did the media report on slum-lord Goober evicting a welfare family to make room for taxpayers to remodel the house for the USSS to live in it? Did they report "Mr.Planet Earth" being a major stockholder in Marathon Oil,which was in the process of clear-cutting parts of the Amazon,and causing a tribe of Amazon Indians to threaten mass suicide? Nope,they didn't.If they didn't report things like this about a Twinkie like Goober,what makes you think they are willing to take on a terrorist like Buh-Bette!?
I saw Larry Flynt on Fox this morning. I wasn't paying much attention. I hope they haven't brought him out of mothballs to do his dirty work. Oh, I'm not worried about him actually finding anything on Bush. My concern is more that he will help the RATS to concoct something to yell about just to plant the ideas in peoples' minds. They're bottom feeders. It should be evident from past experience with them that they will not let anything so petty as "truth" get in their way.
I think you can expect some blame-game antics at first but it will die a quiet death. IMHO, neither party wants this investigation to go anywhere.
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