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Democrats, frantic for any issue with which to belabor a hugely popular president, seize on Enron, though it is a tar baby more likely to end up sticking to themselves. The innuendo will be that questionable financial practices are like Bush's budget policies. A few older and wiser heads are warning them on this one, but they are desperate. Have they forgotten the media arm of their party no longer has total control over public dissemination of information? They bashed Republicans with some success as scandal mongers during the Clinton years. Now they are setting themselves up as nasty and petty blame - game types, while the president remains serenely above it all, a great "bipartisan" leader.

It would appear that the dem's tacticts are starting to backfire--with the help of their allies in the media. There was no story to begin with--a major corporation folds that happens to give money to the repubs. Everyone knows the republicans are evil and greedy, just like the corporations that prop them up. No news there. Then the 'man bites dog' angle creeps in when it is discovered that the pure-as-the-driven-snow democrats have been soaking up Enron money, too. Now that's worth reporting.