NO ENRON DEMOCRATS! Enron is SYNONYMOUS with FRAUD and Repug. LIES....
GREAT commentary by William Greider of TheNation.com: NO_MORE_ENRON_Democrats!
Joe Lieberman ENABLED Enron DEFRAUDING tens of thousand upon millions of American citizens and taxpayers.
Not only did Traitor Joe throw a WEB BLANKET on the Sen. Enron investigation of 2001-2002 (when Lieberman was Chair of the Governmental Oversight Committee which oversaw the Enron committee), but in doing so TRAITOR JOE ROBBED Democratic candidates and campaigners across the country of their best issue in the 2002 midterm elections: The chance and opportunity to unmistakeably TIE George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to ENRON CORRUPTION.
This was a MASSIVE FAILING and BETRAYAL on the part of Senator Lieberman (as documented here at C-dems.blgspt.com) which we will outline yet again: ENRON was George W. Bush's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR through Bush's TWO Texas gubanatorial campaigns, through Bush's 2000 Republican primary (the one where the Wiley brothers of Texas added to Enron's donations with a last-minuted, million-dollar "push-poll" of South Carolina Republican voters that smeared John McCain by "asking" "Did you know that McCain fathered a black child" when in fact McCain and his wife had ADOPTED a Bangladeshi child); including the 2000 presidential race against Al Gore; Enron was THE BIGGEST FUNDER of the Bush vs. Gore legal battle and Florida recount battle (where, in contrast to DECADES worth of Repuglican right-wing "STATES RIGHTS" rhetoric, George Bush and his campaign team went RUNNING TO THE US federal SUPREME COURT to STAY Florida's courts decision to RECOUNT FLORIDA VOTES as per Florida Election Law).
A very astute commentator (?) has noted that Enron's entire path to wealth and glory was based on their close proximity to the presidency of George Bush Sr. (G.H.W. Bush) This is exactly what Kevin Phillips predicts in his landmark book "Wealth and Democracy in America," that, far from "free enterprise" being PRIVATE and DIVORCED from government, most of the great fortunes in America were based on close proximity and cooperation with the highest levels of the US government. From government approval of the SLAVE TRADE (which founded the Brown family fortune of Rhode Island and the Brown University endowment, just as Duke University in North Carolina would later be endowed by tobacco fortunes) to Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana territory (only made possible by his arch political opponent, Alexander Hamilton, putting the US treasury in the positive side of the ledger); to the great fortunes made by American manufacterers in the Civil War, Manifest Destiny (Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet), WWI, WWII, and Cold War, etc.
It is only by pushing THE MYTH of Enron's "free enterprise greatness" that Republicans were able to forestall closer examination of Enron's FRAUDULENT profit-and-loss statements..... Just as President Bush Sr. had FORESTALLED the Federal Bank examiner's criminal audit of Charles Keating's LINCOLN Savings in Loan for a year by FIRING that federal bank examiner and replacing him with banking industry super-lobbyist (which is to say big-time Republican campaign donor) M. Danny Walls (which google).
WITHOUT SENATOR LEIBERMAN pursing similar FORESTALL, DERAIL, and SHORTCHANGE the Enron investigation in senate tactics in the summer of 2001, not only would President have been painted (truthfully) as America's SINGLE BIGGEST BENEFICIARY of Enron's cooked books, but the Bush-Cheney administration would have had a much more difficult job of COVERING for Enron's DEFRAUDING of California rate-payers (electric consumers) of BILLIONS of dollars.
In short, Joe Lieberman is almost single-handedly responsbile for not only turning over the Senate Democratic majority to the Republicans in the mid-term of 2002 (by ROBBING Democrats of the Enron fraud/Bush White House complicity issue), but the gubanatorial mansion of California over to Republicans as well.
Which is to say, ENRON DEMOCRATS ARE TRAITORS - a true Democrat's WORST NIGHTMARE, a Bush Republican's BEST FRIEND.
And note: Senator Hillary Clinton proudly sits atop her $44 million campaign war chest.
$44 million in big corporate donations MADE POSSIBLE by Hillary REMAINING SILENT on ALL THE ABOVE ENRON FRAUD and Bush-Cheney COMPLICITY, as Hillary has REMAINED SILENT on so many other issues that DEFINE being an opposition Democrat in the six years since Bush and Cheney stole election 2000.
A SHOUT OUT to William Rivers Pitt for pointing to the Nation's ENRON DEMOCRATS article, and further explaining that Joe Lieberman's loss was NOT about "the Iraq war alone," but the whole string of above mentioned betrayals.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906Z.shtml
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Enron Democrats
William Greider
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020408/greider
If left-labor-liberal progressives had the cohesion and muscle of their right-wing opposites, they would be articulating a simple-to-understand litmus test for the Democratic Party--no "Enron Democrats" on the presidential ticket in 2004. That precondition would eliminate a number of presidential wannabes now mentioned by the Washington media's Great Mentioner. Scratch Senator Joe Lieberman. Forget the happy talk about Senate majority leader Tom Daschle's running for the White House. And Senator Joe Biden can stop daydreaming. These men--and perhaps some other would-be candidates--do not pass the Enron smell test.
It is not that Enron Democrats got a lot of money themselves from the now-ruined energy company, but they are implicated in more significant ways. On various matters, they helped set the stage for the scandalous behavior of Enron and other highfliers now in disgrace. They defended the degraded accounting standards that hoodwinked investors. Or they promoted financial gimmicks and deregulatory measures that opened the way for grand malpractice. Or they formed thick alliances with the very banks, auditing firms and corporations that are now running for cover--sued, investigated or defrocked as New Economy marvels.
Enron Democrats are compromised by their own past behavior, which explains why the Democratic Party's reaction to this spectacle is so muted. Much as in the S&L scandals of the late 1980s, an unspoken truce may emerge between the two parties--don't throw mud at me or I'll throw some back--since so many leading Democrats are implicated along with the Republicans. The hallmark of "Enron issues" is the ease with which Democrats desert the interests of their party's core constituencies to serve the political needs of business and banking. Some doubtless do so as a matter of conviction; some doubtless are convinced by the money.
Joe Lieberman ENABLED Enron DEFRAUDING tens of thousand upon millions of American citizens and taxpayers.
Not only did Traitor Joe throw a WEB BLANKET on the Sen. Enron investigation of 2001-2002 (when Lieberman was Chair of the Governmental Oversight Committee which oversaw the Enron committee), but in doing so TRAITOR JOE ROBBED Democratic candidates and campaigners across the country of their best issue in the 2002 midterm elections: The chance and opportunity to unmistakeably TIE George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to ENRON CORRUPTION.
This was a MASSIVE FAILING and BETRAYAL on the part of Senator Lieberman (as documented here at C-dems.blgspt.com) which we will outline yet again: ENRON was George W. Bush's NUMBER ONE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR through Bush's TWO Texas gubanatorial campaigns, through Bush's 2000 Republican primary (the one where the Wiley brothers of Texas added to Enron's donations with a last-minuted, million-dollar "push-poll" of South Carolina Republican voters that smeared John McCain by "asking" "Did you know that McCain fathered a black child" when in fact McCain and his wife had ADOPTED a Bangladeshi child); including the 2000 presidential race against Al Gore; Enron was THE BIGGEST FUNDER of the Bush vs. Gore legal battle and Florida recount battle (where, in contrast to DECADES worth of Repuglican right-wing "STATES RIGHTS" rhetoric, George Bush and his campaign team went RUNNING TO THE US federal SUPREME COURT to STAY Florida's courts decision to RECOUNT FLORIDA VOTES as per Florida Election Law).
A very astute commentator (?) has noted that Enron's entire path to wealth and glory was based on their close proximity to the presidency of George Bush Sr. (G.H.W. Bush) This is exactly what Kevin Phillips predicts in his landmark book "Wealth and Democracy in America," that, far from "free enterprise" being PRIVATE and DIVORCED from government, most of the great fortunes in America were based on close proximity and cooperation with the highest levels of the US government. From government approval of the SLAVE TRADE (which founded the Brown family fortune of Rhode Island and the Brown University endowment, just as Duke University in North Carolina would later be endowed by tobacco fortunes) to Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana territory (only made possible by his arch political opponent, Alexander Hamilton, putting the US treasury in the positive side of the ledger); to the great fortunes made by American manufacterers in the Civil War, Manifest Destiny (Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet), WWI, WWII, and Cold War, etc.
It is only by pushing THE MYTH of Enron's "free enterprise greatness" that Republicans were able to forestall closer examination of Enron's FRAUDULENT profit-and-loss statements..... Just as President Bush Sr. had FORESTALLED the Federal Bank examiner's criminal audit of Charles Keating's LINCOLN Savings in Loan for a year by FIRING that federal bank examiner and replacing him with banking industry super-lobbyist (which is to say big-time Republican campaign donor) M. Danny Walls (which google).
WITHOUT SENATOR LEIBERMAN pursing similar FORESTALL, DERAIL, and SHORTCHANGE the Enron investigation in senate tactics in the summer of 2001, not only would President have been painted (truthfully) as America's SINGLE BIGGEST BENEFICIARY of Enron's cooked books, but the Bush-Cheney administration would have had a much more difficult job of COVERING for Enron's DEFRAUDING of California rate-payers (electric consumers) of BILLIONS of dollars.
In short, Joe Lieberman is almost single-handedly responsbile for not only turning over the Senate Democratic majority to the Republicans in the mid-term of 2002 (by ROBBING Democrats of the Enron fraud/Bush White House complicity issue), but the gubanatorial mansion of California over to Republicans as well.
Which is to say, ENRON DEMOCRATS ARE TRAITORS - a true Democrat's WORST NIGHTMARE, a Bush Republican's BEST FRIEND.
And note: Senator Hillary Clinton proudly sits atop her $44 million campaign war chest.
$44 million in big corporate donations MADE POSSIBLE by Hillary REMAINING SILENT on ALL THE ABOVE ENRON FRAUD and Bush-Cheney COMPLICITY, as Hillary has REMAINED SILENT on so many other issues that DEFINE being an opposition Democrat in the six years since Bush and Cheney stole election 2000.
A SHOUT OUT to William Rivers Pitt for pointing to the Nation's ENRON DEMOCRATS article, and further explaining that Joe Lieberman's loss was NOT about "the Iraq war alone," but the whole string of above mentioned betrayals.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906Z.shtml
=========================================
Enron Democrats
William Greider
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020408/greider
If left-labor-liberal progressives had the cohesion and muscle of their right-wing opposites, they would be articulating a simple-to-understand litmus test for the Democratic Party--no "Enron Democrats" on the presidential ticket in 2004. That precondition would eliminate a number of presidential wannabes now mentioned by the Washington media's Great Mentioner. Scratch Senator Joe Lieberman. Forget the happy talk about Senate majority leader Tom Daschle's running for the White House. And Senator Joe Biden can stop daydreaming. These men--and perhaps some other would-be candidates--do not pass the Enron smell test.
It is not that Enron Democrats got a lot of money themselves from the now-ruined energy company, but they are implicated in more significant ways. On various matters, they helped set the stage for the scandalous behavior of Enron and other highfliers now in disgrace. They defended the degraded accounting standards that hoodwinked investors. Or they promoted financial gimmicks and deregulatory measures that opened the way for grand malpractice. Or they formed thick alliances with the very banks, auditing firms and corporations that are now running for cover--sued, investigated or defrocked as New Economy marvels.
Enron Democrats are compromised by their own past behavior, which explains why the Democratic Party's reaction to this spectacle is so muted. Much as in the S&L scandals of the late 1980s, an unspoken truce may emerge between the two parties--don't throw mud at me or I'll throw some back--since so many leading Democrats are implicated along with the Republicans. The hallmark of "Enron issues" is the ease with which Democrats desert the interests of their party's core constituencies to serve the political needs of business and banking. Some doubtless do so as a matter of conviction; some doubtless are convinced by the money.
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