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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (252951)	5/6/2002 4:02:40 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

True believers who have blinders see only what their heads are pointed at. The right wingers here are like that. I note that nobody here has shown that anything that I have posted about Bush is false. You see only what you want to see. Del

To: goldworldnet who wrote (252951)	5/6/2002 4:06:15 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I barely knew him" The $550,025 that the Enron Corp. gave Bush over the years makes it his No. 1 career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. “Virtually every … aspect of Enron’s operations is overseen by the federal government,” a ’96 Dallas Morning News story noted. Not surprisingly, this global natural gas giant and its top executive are big political contributors who keep revolving doors whirling. Lay hired President Bush’s cabinet members James Baker and Robert Mosbacher as they left office. After President Bush’s ’93 Gulf War victory tour of Kuwait, Baker and other members of his entourage stayed on to hustle Enron contracts. The Clinton administration also threatened to cut Mozambique’s aid in ’95 if the world’s poorest country awarded a pipeline contract to a different company. Enron got Bush to contact Texas’ congressional delegation in ’97 to promote a corporate welfare program in which U.S. taxpayers finance political risk insurance for the foreign operations of corporations such as Enron. Enron plants around Houston—which surpassed LA for the title to the nation’s worst air—are “grandfathered” air polluters that exploit a loophole in state law to avoid installing modern pollution-control technologies. Earlier this year the Houston Astros inaugurated their new Enron Field, which was financed with $180 million in public tax dollars and $100 million from Enron. In return, Enron landed tax breaks and a $200 million contract to power the stadium. Topping Enron’s political wish list in Texas was deregulation of the state’s electrical markets. Bush signed this dream into law in ’99. tpj.org I wonder if you consider "I barely knew him" a lie? Nah. Only "Slick" lies. Republicans favorite is "that statement is no longer operative" Del

To: goldworldnet who wrote (252951)	5/6/2002 4:13:46 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Attorney General John Ashcroft was busy with the war on terrorism, so he looked the other way as, behind the tinted glass at Enron headquarters, paper shredders ran at full throttle for two months. They were destroying evidence of Enron's grand larceny. The crimes are legion: massive corporate fraud, insider trading, price fixing, influence peddling, tax evasion, obstruction of justice. Already the signs of a coordinated cover-up are becoming clear. The first priority is to protect George W. Bush, whose "good ole boy" ties to Enron's former CEO Ken Lay are as fresh and malodorous as a steaming cow pie. Like Ashcroft, Bush is so preoccupied as "commander-in-chief" that he has no time to answer the overriding question in this debacle: "What did you know and when did you know it?" Yet the real story of Enron is the corporation's incestuous relations with the Bush family and the ultra-right. Track the rise of Enron and you are tracking the career of George W. Bush from a callow college frat rat to a cunning corporate-government insider, who always knew what was best for the oil and gas billionaires. cpusa.org Del

To: goldworldnet who wrote (252951)	5/6/2002 4:15:26 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Gov. Gray Davis pleaded with the Bush administration to impose price caps. But Bush, at Ken Lays' request, stiff armed these pleas for months as the people of California suffered. Then the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, headed by Pat Wood, Enron's hand-picked nominee, approved caps that locked in high utility rates in California. Davis has accused Enron and other energy providers of overcharging consumers at least $8.9 billion. Part of the scam was to shift blame for the crisis from Enron and the Bush administration to Davis and other Democratic officials. The hope was that outraged voters would oust them from office and elect a Republican governor and legislature in 2002." cpusa.org Nah. Bush isn't in anybody's pocket. How could anybody even think that? Del