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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (218641)	1/15/2002 12:01:15 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Despite President's Denials, Enron & Lay Were Early Backers of Bush Enron PAC & Executives Gave $146,500 to Gubernatorial Campaign Austin, TX: President George W. Bush revised history yesterday when he said that Enron CEO Ken Lay "was a supporter of Ann Richards in my [gubernatorial] run in 1994." While Richards reportedly received $12,500 from Enron sources in that campaign, Bush received far more Lay and Enron money. In fact, in an interview with PBS’s "Frontline" taped on March 27, 2001, Lay said, “When Governor Bush, now President Bush, decided to run for the governor’s spot, [there was] a little difficult situation. I’d worked very closely with Ann Richards also, the four years she was governor. But I was very close to George W. and had a lot of respect for him, had watched him over the years, particularly with reference to dealing with his father when his father was in the White House and some of the things he did to work for his father, and so did support him.” Mr. Lay and Enron's PAC were early donors to Bush’s 1994 race, contributing $30,000 to Bush's gubernatorial committee as early as November 1993. All told, Enron's PAC and executives contributed $146,500 to Bush's first gubernatorial war chest in 1993 and 1994. "President Bush's explanation of his relationship to Enron is at best a half truth. He was in bed with Enron before he ever held a political office," said Craig McDonald, Director of Texans for Public Justice. tpj.org

To: TigerPaw who wrote (218641)	1/15/2002 12:06:46 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Poll: Dems in Deep Doo-Doo rushlimbaugh.com I found an interesting story in Sunday's Washington Post. It was titled, "Poll Finds Bad News for Democrats Looking for a Traditional Midterm Election Edge." Oh, yes. And you wondered why they are acting like such desperate, panicked fools over this Enron non-story? The story reports, "A solid Democratic advantage going into the 2002 House and Senate races has evaporated in the wake of September 11th, according to a poll taken by the Cook Political Report." So instead of picking up 20 or 30 seats in the House as historical trends showed the Democrats would, they may not gain a legitimate majority in the Senate, or even pick up the tiny number of seats they need to make Dick Gephardt Speaker of the House. Now, why would this be? Why would such a predictable political tradition not be followed this year? Well, let me weigh in with an answer or two. The Democrats know that their liberalism isn't resonating with people. In fact, they won't even call themselves "liberal." They couch it in terms such as "progressive." Some of them have taken to calling themselves "conservative." The nation is firmly united behind Bush and his party, and the Democrats don't know what to do. They simply have no ideas, and since the only thing they know how to do is fear-monger and distort and engage in personal attacks, they can't get traction. Daschle launched that bizarre attack - that he and Bob Rubin put together - on Bush about ten days ago, and it bombed. No one's buying what they're selling. No one believes Daschle when he says the $300-some Billion Bush tax cut, which a dozen Democratic senators voted for, ate up the $1.4 Trillion surplus. The tax cut hasn't even gone into effect, so it couldn't have caused that, and everybody knows it. The American people aren't too stupid to do math, despite the liberal takeover of education, so Daschle's speech was a total bomb. The next partisan Democratic rallying point after that failure has been Enron. Never mind that there's no political scandal there. Never mind that there isn't even a coherent allegation when you get right down to brass tacks. Never mind that we took calls on Enron all day on Monday, here on the largest talk radio show in the history of radio waves, and nobody mentioned a specific allegation. No, that doesn't matter. You see, the Democrats don't need a charge to make a scandal, because the media follows whatever they say and report it as fact. In true Clintonesque fashion, the Democratic leadership in Washington is putting their party before the nation and the nation sees it. They claim they don't want this president to fail, but the truth is, they do. It's obvious, which is really all that needs to be known about the Enron matter, pure and simple. While the Democrats say they care about working people, the truth is, they don't. That's why they tried to block true efforts to stimulate the economy, and the average American who could have benefited from that stimulus knows it was the Democrats who blocked it. They can't get away with fooling people much longer, not so long as there is an EIB Network - and there will be for at least another 12 to 15 years.