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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10816)	2/9/2002 6:49:16 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

How 'bout this for a headline: "GOP TARGETS CLINTON, KEEP FORGETTING HE'S NOT STILL PRESIDENT" By Zoltan, GOP Special Correspondent Published 3:45pm PST Saturday, Feb 9,2002 IMPEACH GEORGE W. BUSH THREAD - Goofy Republicans launch a spam campaign in an odd attempt to continue to villify ex-President Clinton, having seemed to forget he's no longer in power. Using one-liner posts, cliches and personal insults, the Goofy Oddball Republicans (GOP) spam threads with unsubstantiated opinion and irrelevant posts in an effort to find comfort among others outside their barracaded threads, where they giggle and curse among themselves, out of fear of letting others post to their forum.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10816)	2/10/2002 7:29:07 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

Seems like the conservative pundits can be bought easily. Pundits for a Fee Lay's strategy of bringing influential public figures into the company's fold was resisted by some of the company's own executives, who feared it could backfire and lead to public embarrassment. To earn their $50,000 annual retainers, the company's clutch of pundits and commentators only had to make two brief visits a year to Houston, an arrangement that some Enron officials privately suggested did not pass the smell test. Among those agreeing to the arrangement were pundits William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and Paul Krugman, now a New York Times columnist. Lay called the group his advisory council, and he and then-chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling attended their gatherings, held in a boardroom adjacent to Lay's office on Enron's 50th floor. "These are exciting times, and we need all the ideas we can get," Lay wrote to council members in December 2000. Commentator Larry Kudlow of CNBC and the National Review said he attended one council session as a guest, and received a $15,000 payment, in addition to a $20,000 consulting fee to his firm. The company hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz after an executive saw him on MSNBC and thought he looked smart, according to a former Enron consultant. Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition executive director and now chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, worked for the company for about 18 months, spread out between 1997 and 2001. He was brought into the Enron fold on the advice of Bush strategist Karl Rove, an Enron stockholder. Most of Reed's work -- in Pennsylvania and two or more other states -- was for direct mail and telephone banks to promote greater choice in electricity service, a source said. Lawrence B. Lindsey, Bush's chief economic adviser, also was a paid consultant. Enron approached James Carville, the Democratic strategist, in 1997, after his Cajun shrewdness had helped return Clinton to the White House. But Carville was interested in campaigns and Enron wanted him to lobby for electricity deregulation in Pennsylvania, where he had masterminded an upset Senate victory. Carville rejected the job. washingtonpost.com