Posted on 01/15/2002 11:25:46 AM PST by billorites
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush White House has followed the well-trodden path of its modern predecessors and drawn attention to itself while trying to draw attention away from itself.
The Democrats are faring only a little better. The Democratic National Committee is playing politics shamelessly, but that act itself is keeping it from being taken seriously. Party figures in the Senate, like their Republican counterparts in the House, decided well in advance of last week's feeding frenzy to treat Enron as one of those rare business scandals that easily engages the public and not as a governmental story as long as the evidence doesn't make it one.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Well, I see it as a scandal in that Enron execs knowingly overstated profits year after year. The liberal media sees it as a scandal that Pres. Bush's popularity remains at 89%, and is attempting to smear him.
Mr. Oliphant is a lefty from way back and his agenda can be seen in the excerpt above. Everything else in this article is fluff.
I have emailed Mr. Oliphant the text from my post from last Friday concerning Lieberman and Citigroup. Let see if he has any comments on that!
I guess you have higher expectations of your fellow citizens than I do (which is probably good). I don't see that as a scandal, just garden-variety fraud, which has now been rooted out in the usual way.
Not to burst the idiot writer's bubble or anything, but who was it that called for a Justice department investigation and a re-examination of 401k and pension laws? What, exactly could the government do besides investigate after the fact? Bail them out? Oh yeah, that wouldn't have caused any political fallout, right?
Isn't it interesting that that author thinks that Bush should have gotten all the information out at once, quickly, not in "dribs and drabs", but then proceeds to tell us that he released the information as soon as he found out about it?
Further, the author aludes to Democrats accidentally pointing the finger at themselves, then goes into the rant about how Bush screwed up and drew attention to himself. If you ask me, Bush did exactly the right thing--he did nothing wrong, and when he found out about things that might look bad, he told everyone about them as soon as possible.
< Gilda Radner=on>
Never Mind.
How come?
Is it the pretentious bow tie?
Those silly little round-rimmed glasses he wears?
Maybe it's the smarmy, unctuous manner he oozes.
Or, his chronic Clinton bootlicking, his syncophantic fawning ...
It will be interesting when this investigation is in full swing right to the inception of Enron.
btw when was the last press conference with Ari and what time is it usually on. I can only get msnbc over the net, no tv here.
go to google and type in Enron Argentina Bush. This will be called the awakening to enlightenment. ;-)
Okay, first, how is this a scandal? Second, all the stories say he failed at this attempt, so even if it were scandelous(making a phone call?), it didn't pan out anyway, so what's the big deal? Further, in 1988, his father was not yet president since he was still running and would not be elected until November of that year(unless you count the fact the Dukakis was a total loser and could not possibly have won), so what kind of bargaining tools is that--My dad might be the president?
To quote:
President Bush was born July 6, 1946, and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He served as an F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard before beginning his career in the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975, working in the energy industry until 1986. After working on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign, he assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.
I especially love the conspiracy pages that have W as governor of Texas in 1988--it's a neat trick to be governor 6 years before anyone voted for you.
Now, which one of us needs the enlightenment?
told you to do a search on google, to seek enlightenment one must search on ones own.;-)
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