Okay let me see if I can find a scandal here..
First of all we know that OJ Simpson worked for the NFL and Warner Bro’s studio before he murdered his wife.
Long before Cheney's task force met with Enron officials and included their ideas in Bush's energy plan, Clinton's energy team was doing much the same thing. Drafting a 1995 plan to help facilitate cash flow and credit for energy producers, it asked for Enron's input—and listened. The staff was directed to "rework the proposal to take into account the specific comments and suggestions you made," Clinton Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White wrote an Enron official.
Key word here is “listened” and “rework the proposal to take into account the specific comments and suggestions you made”.... The article didn’t say they drafted deregulation by Sen. Phil Grahm or his Enron employee wife Windy.. Which is what happened on Dec 14th 2000. BTW that’s two days after the selection.
Clinton officials also made efforts to help Enron get business overseas. Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary included Enron officials on trade missions to India, China, Pakistan and South Africa. White, returning from a 1994 trip to Mexico, wrote chairman Lay that "much opportunity" existed there for natural gas, and he sent a copy of Mexico's energy plans. To persuade an Enron senior vice president to join a mission to Pakistan
Ron Brown had several trade missions where many CEO’s including Kenny boy went all over the place looking for new business as per requested by the Clinton administration. This was widely reported at the time. I’m not sure this is scandalous.
Enron showed its gratitude. At Christmas 1995, documents show, it donated an unknown sum of cash in O'Leary's name to a charity called "I Have a Dream." And when Clinton ran for re-election a year later, the company made its largest single contribution ever—$100,000—to the President's party.
The bottom line on this paragraph is that Enron donated $100 large to Clinton’s upcoming campaign... Still this hardly compares to Enron’s donations to GOP candidates in the ’98 and 2K campaigns. The split is something like 20/80 GOP. Not to mention the 100K for the recount effort or the 100K for the inauguration party.
What IS being questioned is if Key Ley and Enron had undue influence in not only suggesting legislation for the Vice President’s energy task force but hell, had their own lobbyist write the damn thing!.. Not only that but Enron lobbyist even wrote the legislation for deregulation that provided the groundwork for ripping off the good people of California to the tune of thirty BILLION dollars!. Before you squawk this is federal deregulation which needed to happen before he could go with the state deregulation already on the books signed by Pete Wilson in 1996. If all is fine and dandy with the VP energy report, then release the damn thing to the GAO and get this thing over with. The longer he holds onto this the longer these questions will linger. The problem with releasing it is someone might find out Cheney is up to his ears in the Sopranos type “cash out” for California.
No, I have to believe most of America just isn't buying it. The average American can figure out the Enron thing really started under another watch, that it took negligence from more than an administration, and that to a certain extent our blind greed made the whole thing possible? That maybe, just maybe, we believed what we wanted to believe so long as times were good?
You might be right here Kieran, according to Nielson ratings most Americans are more interested in WWF wrestling, the Anna Nicolle Smith show, and the Ten channel on satellite. Going through financial fraud research is complicated and boring. Both parties take money from corporations true... But you have to wonder why the corporations poured millions into the slime machine first on Sen. John McCain a war hero for Christ sake then Al Gore. Both these men were NOT going to give these swindlers everything they wanted.
In other words, never. They're POLITICIANS. Responsibility and Accountability are foreign concepts to them.. otherwise they wouldn't be successful politicians
So... WHAT Toad.. we American’s are just supposed to accept that our leaders are liars and thieves? NO sir, with all due respect you HAD two choices Republican and Democrat. Men of honor. The slime machine turned on both of them. I don’t accept that at all.
Sorry Rip, I’m not exactly ready to join up with FreeRepublic.com just yet. Keep looking you’ll find a scandal that’s equal to what the GOP is doing.
“If I am than so are you”
I get tired of hearing well, it's all Clinton's fault or if we can't find a tie in to Clinton than all politicians do it so what the hell.
Relax....
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While I was flying down the road yesterday (only 10 mph over),
I noticed a cop with a radar gun sitting on top of a bridge.
The cop pulled me over, walked up to the car and asked me,
"What's the hurry?" I replied, "I'm late for work."
"Oh yeah," said the cop, "what do you do?" I responded,
"I'm a rectum stretcher." The cop said "Whats.....a rectum stretcher,
and what does a rectum stretcher do?" I said,
"Well, I start with one finger, then I work my way up to two fingers,
then three, then four, then my whole hand,
then I work until I can get both hands in there
and then I slowly stretch it until it's about 6 foot wide."
The cop asked me, "What the hell do you do with a 6 foot amazinhunk?"
I simply replied, "You give him a radar gun and park him on top of a
bridge.."
The ticket -- $95 dollars.
The look on his face, PRICELESS
