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So much corruption, so little time!
- David Morris, from the Insititute For Local Self Reliance gives a quick, incisive recap of Enron & Ken Lay's history in The Man Who Screwed the World.
- "House Dems will probe White House links to Enron Corp" according to a story in The Hill. But don't expect them to look anywhere near as hard as Republicans look.
- Gene Lyons, author of Fools For Scandal and co-author of The Hunting of the President, both of which show how "there was no there there" in the Whitewater Scandal, writes about a very different situation in Incest And Corruption, Texas Style. "Now Republicans are reminding us what a real financial scandal looks like�. With� [a cost] roughly ONE THOUSAND TIMES greater than McDougal's finagling. It'll be interesting to see if it receives ten
percent of the attention."
- Molly Ivans writes What If Enron Had Been Bill Clinton's Sugar Daddy? "The Establishment media, sucking its collective thumb with unwonted solemnity, is treating us to meditations on two themes: "How the mighty have fallen," and, "Who would have thunk it?" �.If you want to know what this story is about, pretend Bill Clinton is still president�. Holy moley, we'd have four congressional investigations, three special prosecutors, two impeachment inquiries and a partridge in a pear tree by now."
- Robert Scheer, whose nationally syndicated column appears in the LA Times every Tuesday, writes in Connect the Enron Dots to Bush: "Enron is Whitewater in spades. This isn't just some rinky-dink land investment like the one dredged up by right-wing enemies to haunt the Clinton White House -- but rather it has the makings of the greatest presidential scandal since Teapot Dome."
- Doug Heller, of The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights writes that Enron Gets Zapped by Its Own Greed: "Greed, cloaked in the promise of a competitive market, created and drove the deregulated energy system�. The moral for society should not only be that markets need rules and limits, but also that some things don't need markets at all."
- Way back in October, Paul Krugman noticed Huge Tax Cuts For Bush/Cheney Energy Cronies. Maybe everything Bush stands for is a front for Enron & its sister energy banditos.
- Texans For Public Justice has just released a report, All the Kings' Horses & Men: Enron's Blackout Cuts Power Behind Numerous Thrones, which looks at Enron's lobbying empire, topped off by $238,000 given to Bush II.
- The Center For Responsive Politics (CRP) has oodles of information about political bribery (the worst kind-the kind that's perfectly legal.) Check out Tracking the Payback - Bush Energy Plan, and do your own search to find out who Ken Lay has given $$$ to.
- Last May, IMC-LA ran a story The End Of The World Is Brought To You By...Buy! Buy! Buy! drawing on CRP's data. The "Energy/Natural Resources" sector of the economy spent almost a quarter of a billion dollars from 1990-2000. It went overwhelmingly to Republicans by a ratio of 68 to 31%. Enron lead the list of individual donors with $2,387,848, favoring republicans 72 to 28%.
- Finally, VP Cheney's old company, Haliburton,
is also falling hard, due to verdicts in asbestos lawsuits. What did he know and when did he know it?
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