Enron Called Bush Cabinet Officers Before Bankruptcy

Reuters ^ | January 10, 2002 | By Arshad Mohammed

[MeekOneGOP]

Easy Link to this article:

Enron Called Bush Cabinet Officers Before Bankruptcy
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020110/ts/bush_enron_dc_7.html

[A CA Guy]

Everybody INCLUDING WAXMAN took donations from Enron. Every company has the right to succeed or fail. With the exception of food or defense the GOV usually stays away from the situation. Evidently the Whitehouse did not pay special attention to Enron nor any other company. So far there is no problem as far as the Whitehouse is concerned.

It's terrible that the officers sold their stock first if it was illegal. I wait to hear what was illeagal. It does merit investigation though.

[A CA Guy]

illegal / whoops

[D2BAH]

". . .thousands of documents were destroyed. . ." Well, soon as Slickass clinton produces the thousands of missing emails and hands over all his records of Chi-Com nuclear secret payoffs and money they gave to Gore and the DNC, well, m-a-y-b-e a few scraps of Enron paper might be found. In the meantime, I'd rather not hear the demoncraps who covered and excused clintons' fat butt for 8 years open their yaps about THIS deal.

[Howlin]

They called the cabinet members and WHAT? Did they ask for help? Because if bankruptcy is the kind of help this White House can deliver, we're ALL in a lot of trouble!

I just watched Brian Williaims' entire report on MSNBC.........not ONE mention of ONE Democrat, but lots of scornful and worried looks while he was talking to Howard Finneman about how bad this was going to be for Bush.

Sure they met at the White House with Cheney; so did a LOT of other energy and business heads.

They are like sharks in the water. Even Finneman said that!

[MeekOneGOP]

"illeagal" is just a sick bird. :o)

[Centurion2000]

Bush ordered reviews of pension and corporate disclosure rules of the company, which was a key contributor to the Bush presidential campaign. (Win McNamee/Reuters)

Excuse me whilst I call B$ on this part of the article.

[KevinDavis]

Here is the thing that people is missing, Enron would be still in buisness if it had special favors from Bush! If a company was in buisness the Government, it would still be in buisness and making money. Enron went belly up! Plain and simple!

[SuziQ]

The media is so excited about this! They are trying their level best to tie Bush to this somehow. With headlines screaming that "Enron contacted Bush administration officials". Then you have to get a lot further down in the story before you realize that their contact with O'Neill at Treasury was near the END, not the beginning of their troubles. And the thing about Arthur Anderson destroying documents is HUGE, but again, it has nothing that I can see to do with Dubya!

The media wants so desparately for there to be something like Whitewater that they can tie on to Bush. Sorry folks, you're dealing with a different character than x42. For example, Dubya HAS character, x42 didn't.

[pointsal]

Hey..... so what? Did these good ole boys kiss a** in both parties... I'll bet I know the answer.

[July 4th]

What happened to the employees is terrible, but as Larry Kudlow said, there is a bright spot in this whole thing. It reminds us that we have a capitalist, free market, and when you screw up, you screw up, and you can't expect any one to help.

[MeekOneGOP]

Excuse me whilst I call B$ on this part of the article.

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Reuters in full bloom, huh?

[jackbill]

I just watched Brian Williaims' entire report on MSNBC.........not ONE mention of ONE Democrat, but lots of scornful and worried looks while he was talking to Howard Finneman about how bad this was going to be for Bush.

I saw that as well. When Brian Williams did not mention one DemocRAT, I hit the remote. All that I could think about was Bernie Goldberg's "Bias". I don't have time for these liberal DemocRAT media types - Fineman included.

[Jorge]

So what exactly is Bush charged with?
I still haven't seen anything.

[Wait4Truth]

I was just wondering - how did Fineman handle this story? Did he do fair commentary or did he side with the biased, Bush-hating Brian Williams?

[Howlin]

He was pretty fair, IMO. He wasn't the way he's been lately about Bush, which I think has been adoring! He just stated the facts; Williams was the one doing the spinning.

[Howlin]

Howard's been really great to Bush lately; HE wasn't that bad tonight. It was Brian.

[Howlin]

On the other hand, The Panel on Brit's show agrees with us; there's nothing there; and even Moria said the Dems better be careful.

[KC_Conspirator]

I just watched Brian Williaims' entire report on MSNBC.........not ONE mention of ONE Democrat, but lots of scornful and worried looks while he was talking to Howard Finneman about how bad this was going to be for Bush.

BTW - Arshad Mohammed is one of the worst Algore flunkies at Rueters.

I saw that hatchet job by Williams and Fineman as well. Bias? What bias? Their discussion was purely to plant the notion that Bush bilked average Americans out of their life savings, which is crap.

[Jorge]

Sure they met at the White House with Cheney; so did a LOT of other energy and business heads.

Business heads, union leaders, and all sorts of special interest lobbies meet with both Democrats and Republicans in Washington ALL THE TIME.
So what?

I'm STILL waiting to see what Cheney or anyone in the Bush administration did that was so unusual, or illegal.
So far this entire "scandal" seems like a lot of hot air to me.