Enron Gate: For Democrats the Wrong Battle: Online Research Has Doomed the Demos’ Effort

RightTurns.com ^ | January 15, 2002 | ARTHUR BRUZZONE

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[pray4liberty]

I hope they shoot themselves in the foot at the same time they shoot off their mouths.

[SteamshipTime]

The Right owns the web, just as it has ended up owning talk radio. Leftist ideas wither and die when subjected to rational discourse and the free flow of information.

[Arleigh]

...possible Democrat challenger in 2004 — California Governor Gray Davis.

Yeah. Right.

[deport]

And they will appreciate, that with his usual clarity and forthrightness, President Bush gave no special favors to a lifetime friend even in a time of critical need. The President will be stronger after this episode. And Democrats who staked a claim to this “scandal” will earn the distrust and perhaps contempt of the American people.

This at least for the dems has knocked the War on Terrorism off the front pages of the media. Good or bad I'm not sure.

[Lady In Blue]

Great post! Thanks very much.I'll visit that site.

[Lady In Blue]

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[Puliko]

These demonRats want to spread "Quid pro Quo" scandal for the Enron Bankrupcy to the White House. But what they are actually doing is "Squid for Tuna"; fishing for things that are not there! Every investors should learn about the companies they are investing on. If investors should receive relieves from Government (at least that's what DemonRats are suggesting) for every bad investment they make, what kind of government are we going to have? Come on, how ridiculous is that idea?

[kayak]

President Bush has wisely and quickly called for a thorough investigation into the employees plight, despite his acknowledged long term friendship with Ken Lay, chairman of Enron Corporation.

Calling for help from The Guild here.

Everyone keeps referring to the close friendship between President Bush and Ken Lay. But I have read elsewhere that Lay was among those who spent one of those infamous nights in the Lincoln bedroom.

Didn't #97 state that only close friends of theirs stayed at the White House when they were there? ... (in spite of the fact that there was evidence that the first couple was not there at the time).

If my recollections are correct, I sure would like for some people to start calling Ken Lay a long-time and dear friend of the Clintons.

[TLBSHOW]

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[ignatz_q]

I hope they shoot themselves in the foot at the same time they shoot off their mouths.

I'm not entirely convinced. The problem is that even a lot of Republicans, myself included, feel that the whole Enron mess must be investigated fully. It's not that we expect the White House to be implicated (quite the opposite), but there seems to be a strong possibility that crimes were committed at Enron, and at Andersen, and that a lot of regular folks like you and me suffered as a result.

So, the problem is this: No one cares about the Clintons and Enron, simply because the president out of power is considered boring in the media. (And despite the lefty bias of most media, I believe this would be true even if the outgoing administration had been Republican.) So, the focus will be on Bush and Cheney as far as the government ties that Enron had are concerned.

Conventional wisdom is that the cover up is always worse than the crime. In fact, the appearance of a cover up can wreak damage on an administration even if the evidence is ultimately exculpatory. So what does this mean?

Well, first of all, it means that Cheney has to suck it up and provide the info about Enron's participation in the energy policy. I don't think there's anything there, but every day he resists, terrible damage is done to the President and his administration in the eyes of the public. Full disclosure is the only way to stop unfounded attacks.

And it doesn't stop there. A lot of documents are going to have to come out that the White House doesn't want to release, and there may be a price to pay. But the price to pay for not releasing them is much, much higher, politically speaking.

[goodnesswins]

"The Bush admin is protecting Enron."

Please, pray tell.....HOW? WHEN? WHERE? WHY?

[harpo11]

This article is so beautifully and simply stated. Thanks for posting it and the link to the web site.

I'm wondering if Steve Maiviglio et al., sold his Enron stock.
And, if he did; date, and at what price?

Is it any wonder that the mainstream media propagandists desire campaign finance reform so bad in order to control the flow of information, data, and as well be our only source of opinion?

Long live the free flow of information on the vast world wide web and most of all for Jim Robinson for creating this wonderful home in cyberspace called the
FREE REPUBLIC.

[Argus]

The Bush administration is protecting Enron

Protecting them from what? Bankruptcy? Investigations? Sounds like some mighty ineffectual protection to me. Maybe Ken Lay should demand his money back - Comrade Clinton did a hell of a lot more for him than Evil Capitalist Bush.

[palo verde]

excellent post
Love, Palo