Enron Also Courted Democrats

Washington Post ^ | 01-13-02 | Dan Morgan

[Danette]

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[Wphile]

Arianna who? Yada, yada, yada.

[MamaLucci]

Arianna Huffington has no credibility here, and neither do hit and run posters who sign up today to post this kind of crap.
BTW, welcome to Free Republic, the web's most happenin' place.

[stands2reason]

According to these people, if my company gives me stock, and the stock tanks, I should be able to be paid what the value of the stock was at its peak. Pretty amazing.

[MamaLucci]

I've been roaming the channels,...

You're a stronger woman than I am. I've gotten to the place where I can BARELY stomach having Fox News tuned in.
Like another poster (Wphile, I think) has been posting on these threads..."I hate the media." Their power to distort the news
is scary...and dangerous.

[Wphile]

So much for personal responsbility, eh? This may very well mark the end of pension plan contributions in stock. Too bad. It works well for lots of companies and employees but I fear with Congress involved they will propose and enact a bunch of stupid laws.

[Wphile]

Actually, it's...

God, I hate the press.

[MamaLucci]

"God, I hate the press."

That's it! Works for me.:)

[stands2reason]

So, what did President Bush do for Enron? Not much, as it really doesn't exist anymore. You know Ken Lay is wishing that Clinton was still prez. Clinton would have made bailing out Enron a matter of national security. Imagine the spin!

But all poor little Arianna can come up with is the fact that Republicans are still Republicans (i.e. anti-regulation) after Enron collapsed. Hilarious!

[enrongate]

Arianna Huffington has no credibility here

Ummm. When did that start? When she sent her corporate sponsored hubbie off to pack fudge with the "log cabins"?

Or was it when she refused to become a Bush numbed robot and fall at the altar of the Bush Klan?

[MamaLucci]

Personally, I've always thought she was irrelevant. She lost her professional credibility among Republicans when she
took up with the Walter Mitty of the senate, John McCain.

[Wphile]

When did that start?

For me? In 1994, when her husband ran for the Senate. Can't stand her...always have, always will.

[BlueAngel]

Bump!

[MamaLucci]

return bump!

[Lady In Blue]

BUMP!

[Mia T]

The clintons, Ron Brown, Robert Rubin, Vernon Jordan, Robert Strauss, and Enron . . . and Helen Thomas

Q ERTY1 + Q ERTY4 + Q ERTY6

= rodham-clinton-DNC-media corruption REALITY CHECK bump!

[Mia T]

Enron officials envisioned the company at the center of a new trading system, in which industries worldwide could buy and sell credits to emit carbon dioxide as part of a strategy to reduce greenhouse gases. Such a system would curtail the use of inefficient coal-fired power plants that emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide, while encouraging new investments in gas-fired plants and pipelines -- precisely Enron's line of business.

But the effort faced powerful opposition from automakers, oil companies and utilities. In early 1997 the Senate unanimously instructed the administration not to agree to any carbon-reducing strategy that would harm the U.S. economy.

On Aug. 4, 1997, Lay and seven other energy executives met with Clinton, Gore, Rubin and other top officials at the White House to discuss the U.S. position at the upcoming conference on global warming in Kyoto, Japan. Lay, in a memo to Enron employees, said there was broad consensus in favor of an emissions-trading system.

Enron officials later expressed elation at the results of the Kyoto conference. An internal memo said the Kyoto agreement, if implemented, would "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States."

At Lay's meeting with Peña on Feb. 20, 1998, he spoke of restructuring the U.S. electricity market in ways that would benefit Enron. Lay pressed the administration to propose legislation that would assert federal authority over a national electricity market.

According to a company version of the meeting, Lay and Peña agreed that a go-slow approach to deregulation, advocated by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska), was unacceptable. Peña asked Enron officials to keep Energy Department staffers posted on developments in Congress, and solicited comments on the administration's draft of its Comprehensive National Energy Strategy, an Enron document said. Lay felt the draft was "headed in the right direction" except for a few points, the document said...

Enron Also Courted Democrats

Chairman Pushed Firm's Agenda With Clinton White House

The "it's the economy, stupid" clinton scheme will be remembered for engineering not a weak economy but a weak presidency.

History will record that clinton economic policy decisions, like all clinton policy decisions, were short-range and egocentric, that is, were based solely on their projected immediate effect on bill and/or hillary clinton.

The "it's the economy, stupid" clinton scheme was engineered specifically to render an unqualified candidate viable, a depraved president tolerable, a president's successor feckless, an ex-president wistfully longed for... and his wife craved in '04.

Mia T, "The Daschle Scheme"

The clintons, Ron Brown, Robert Rubin, Vernon Jordan, Robert Strauss, and Enron . . . and Helen Thomas

Q ERTY1 + Q ERTY4 + Q ERTY6

= rodham-clinton-DNC-media corruption REALITY CHECK bump!