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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (10699)	2/8/2002 7:35:34 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Nah. Its already clear that ENRON is a business failure which is unrelated to the Bush Admin. JLA

To: Don Hurst who wrote (10699)	2/8/2002 1:16:12 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 93284

WashPostie: Enrongate Not a Bush Scandal Washington Post reporter Lois Romano admitted Thursday that while the mainstream press has tried to paint Enrongate as a White House scandal, in reality chief Enron villian Kenneth Lay was never that close to President Bush. "Well, you know, we try to make everything political," Romano told radioman Don Imus. "I think it's an economic story, it's a financial story, and I think it's a personal story," she observed. "But, you know, early on everybody was trying to link Lay with Bush and I'm not sure they were that close." Romano said she covered Bush during the presidential campaign going back to 1999, which resulted in a seven-part series for the Post. She told Imus, "This guy's [Ken Lay's] name never came up. I mean, he was just some money guy in the background. I never heard of him going to the mansion or the ranch or him having some rich personal relationship with Bush." Lay's distance from Bush is the reason attempts to tarnish the White House with the scandal are "starting to fade a little bit," Romano said. Imus had some advice for the Post reporter's colleagues still trying to gin up Enrongate as a White House scandal. "We need to find some hookers and lap dancers in all this," he told Romano. newsmax.com That was a shrewd allusion to Clinton's ties to Enron.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (10699)	2/8/2002 1:42:26 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Daschle is now so unpopular that he would lose his home state in a match against President Bush: Daschle vs. Bush Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle "seems to be losing the love of home-state South Dakotans as he attacks Bush's tax cuts, tries to demonize him over Enron and bids to kill his economic stimulus plan," the New York Post's Deborah Orin writes. "A new GOP poll in South Dakota, conducted by Basswood Associates, pits Daschle (a potential 2004 presidential wannabe) against Bush in a hypothetical contest. Bush wins big, 54 to 37 percent," Miss Orin said. "Republicans claim Daschle is using the same approach that killed Al Gore, making Dems the party of gloom and doom while Bush sends out a positive message." washingtontimes.com I suspect SD would join the other 49 against Daschle.