I am sick though of these dishonest preening politicians Boxer, Ron Widen and Gray Davis brow beating energy company employees and the employees not standing up for themselves and correcting the lies Boxer, Freeman and others spew. Instead they sit there meekly and silently when they should be interrupting the politicians to tell the whole story of what caused the crisis.
I agree with you completely.
I was in WA DC talking to staff of Senators tennis-shoe-mom Murray & Cant-Vote-well along with the staff of Congressman Inslee on the day that the Washingotn Post covered the Enron-Death Star, Get Shorty, etc. memo's. I tried to point out that what they were saying was politics and this was way to important for politics. I told several staffers that I was more shocked about what the Cal-ISO and DWR had done than by what Enron was accused of having done.
The staff person for Inslee in particular would not listen to a word I was trying to say as it was not in his political script. I cautioned him, that asking Ashcroft and FERC to throw the book at folks could come back to haunt the democratic party. He wanted to hear nothing about what I had to say. After I got back from DC I even sent him an email with some documentation and links to Sacramento Bee newspaper articles that indicated the Cal ISO had really misbehaved during the energy crisis.
You are right in that this is politics of the worst sort and truth is the victim. May of the staff of the companies being quized by the Senate and House should stand up to these folks with harsh answers about who are the real villians and why did California do nothing once it knew it had a problem. A victim should fight for its rights nor role over.