posted on January 25, 2002 01:13:43 AM new
Blowing the doors off the Bush-Enron skeleton
closet
----Anybody who believes that G. W. Bush was
not completely aware of what was going down
with Enron and its sleazy CEO and chief Bush
buddy Kenneth Lay not only has bananas in their
ears, they have a great big watermelon in between
them. Well, wake up, smell the coffee, uncork the
bananas and spit out the seeds! Lay has been
throwing his weight around the West Wing since
Day One! When these dirty little stories came out
one by one over the past few years, Bush could
use his control over the press to deflect them as
they came. Now, with Enron collapsing, the door
to the stuffed skeleton closet has just been blown
off and "all dem bones" are tumbling out onto
Bush's head in an avalanche and. "All the king's
networks and all the king's spin/Can't put them
back into the closet again." After all, just think of
how many of the folks who work at NBC, CBS,
CNN, FOX et al. lost money on Enron -- the
seventh largest corporation in the U.S., now
undergoing the biggest bankruptcy case in U.S.
history.
---- Here are just a few of the skeletons tumbling
out of that well-packed closet:
---- • Bush's billionaire cult "The Pioneers"
features Kenneth Lay as "High Priest": Ever hear
of Bush's Pioneers? Probably not, because you
aren't supposed to. They are an elite,
ultra-secretive cult of billionaire corporate
executives, lawyers, lobbyists, and political
operatives who have collectively showered tens of
millions of dollars directly into Bush's lap in
donations over the past decade. This group is not
just a political club -- they are a cult, which
Webster's defines as "a small circle of persons
united by devotion or allegiance to an artistic or
intellectual [or corporate, in this case] movement
or figure."
----Admittance to the club required the signing of
a pledge and coughing up a minimum Bush
donation of $100,000. Guess who one of the
"charter members" of the cult is? You guessed it:
Kenneth Lay.
----The power of this cult was so outrageously
strong just in Texas, that citizen's groups sought
to expose it. However, they were Davids fighting a
small army of Goliaths who were protected by the
Goliath-owned media.Read this whole report and
you will wonder what kind of federal government
has allowed this not only to happen at all, but to
go on this long, and with damage to so many
people.
----Even some representatives of the network
media are trying to spin the Enron debacle as "just
one of those things," and trying to imply that
Bush was just one of the political candidates
Enron donated to. But, considering the fact that
Bush netted about 10 times more just in straight
political donations from Enron than Gore or
Clinton, saying it's all the same thing is like saying
there's no difference between inviting someone to
an 8-course banquet and throwing someone a
stale sandwich.
----Bush himself is now using the same coverup
tactic -- forgetting that coming from him, it will be
considered a lie on a major scale, not spin. He
claims that Enron actually supported his opponent
in Texas, Ann Richards. But that's not what about
sixty zillion records show. If Bush were Pinocchio,
they'd have to remodel Air Force One to
accommodate his recent nasal growth!
---- • Lay uses U.S. government to extort
money from India: On August 24, 2001 the BBC
reported that Kenneth Lay -- a man with
supposedly no influence in the White House! --
had threatened India with sanctions if Enron did
not get back the $1-billion it had spent on building
a plant at Dabhol in India.
----Immediately, Enron tried to play down Lay's
statement, saying that it had not lodged a formal
complaint with the U.S. government. However, 13
days later, the BBC reported that Bush-appointed
ambassador to India Robert Blackwill had begun
to use intimidation and extortion to force India to
keep paying for electricity generated by Enron's
Indian operation, even though the price of Enron's
juice was twice that of Indian power providers!
Blackwill hinted to India that if they didn't ante up,
the U.S. might exert "sanctions" against them.
---- • Cheney's secret Energy Task Force list:
Lay's name up near the top: How about the secret
"Energy Task Force" that helped craft Bush's
hideous energy "plan"? The names of these
players have never been revealed to this day,
though Cheney and Bush's refusal to name them
violates federal statutes and they have been
subpoenaed.
---- Here's a story I discovered last year and
passed on to Democrats.com, along with a link. By
doing a little digging into some corporate names, I
had discovered that there was a
more-than-coincidental similarity between the
Bush energy plan and the Baker Institute's
"Strategic Energy Policy Changes for the 21st
Century" plan. Here's the text of the synopsis I
wrote of that story:
----"Democrats.com has learned from an inside
source (er, that was me) that the template for the
Shrubcheney energy plan is the "Strategic
Energy Policy Changes for the 21st Century"
plan from the James Baker III Institute on the
campus of Rice University in Texas. It is the Bush
plan. The Baker Institute is a big-bucks
right-wing propaganda and
world-domination-planning center disguised as a
"think tank." Dominating the 41-member task
force are two-dozen major energy CEO's,
including Kenneth Lay of Enron, David O'Reilly
of ChevronTexaco, Steve Miller of Shell Oil, and
Chuck Watson of Houston Dynergy. Not one
representative from the alternative energy sector
sat on this task force, not one climatologist,
ecologist, or non-geopetrol scientist of any type.
Conservation and alternatives are discussed as
vague projects for "later." But, here is our energy
plan! Read it (if you can wade through the BS in
which it is couched) and weep!"
----However, if you try to click on the link to the
Baker Institute report now, you will draw a great
big blank. Surprise, surprise! Oh, yes, and in case
you didn't know, James Baker, big cheese of
Reliant Corp. is one of Lay's oldest, dearest
buddies. And, yes, that is the same James Baker
who traveled to Florida to make sure that any
attempt to recount the votes in Florida was
derailed.
---- • Kenneth Lay does the White House
hiring and firing: May, 2001: Kenneth Lay
made bullying calls to Federal Regulatory
Commission head Curtis Hebert in an effort
to pressure Hebert into adopting the
"correct" views (i.e., Lay's views) on
deregulation. When Ari "the Human Egg with
Eyebrows" Fliescher was asked if Bush
would fire Hebert if he didn't go along with
Lay, Fliescher said no, because "the
President makes all of his decisions on
personnel based on the merits of the people
that he would seek to name." Well, isn't it
interesting that just 35 days after Fliescher
made this statement, Hebert suddenly
resigned with the White House taking great
pains to tell the world that it was all Hebert's
own idea. Well, maybe some people really
are stupid enough to buy this line.
---- • Kenneth Lay, Domestic
Terrorist: And lest we forget -- there was
the infamous California energy crisis, largely
engineered by Kenneth Lay and Enron,
which wiped out more than one family
already hard-pressed to pay their bills. Has
anyone spared a thought for the victims of
that act of domestic terrorism?
---- • Diatribble … ALERT!! Is Bush
losing it? At first glance, the story I just
heard on the news, about Bush choking on a
pretzel and fainting, seems like just the sort
of idiot stunt Bush would pull (trying to
one-up Daddy's face-first dive into the sushi
whilst passing out at a state dinner in Japan).
But then I did a double-take on the wording
of the story the White House is giving out
about the incident: The "state story" is that
Bush was allegedly watching football alone
when he fainted. OK, unless he was also
hollering "Help! I've fainted!" while
unconscious, how did anyone know? I think
the real story is that Bush was not watching
football -- that's a propaganda scenario
designed to give the impression of
unruffledness in the face of Enron. It is much
more likely that Bush was having a major
panic attack, a condition usually
accompanied by hyperventilation, which can
lead to fainting. And why was he having a
panic attack. Gee, I wonder … !
Cheryl's Daily Diatribe:
Monday, January 14, 2002
Presidential Masterpiece...Not!
----Here is the text of Bush's latest speech:
Read it and weep.
----Though words seem inadequate for
describing this "presidential message" I shall
try. Here are the major points of interest:
----1. This speech is stunning in its total lack
of intelligent articulation -- this is sixth grade
text at best.
----2. The oily groveling for approval -- just
count the thank-you's to everyone within
100 feet of the podium. I wondered when
he'd start sobbing and demanding babies and
old folks to kiss.
----3. It is so obvious that he is using this
public appearance to start his spin campaign
re: the Enron debacle ("You know, my view
about this is that the role of government is
not to try to create wealth. The role of
government is to create an environment in
which people are willing to take risks, in
which the entrepreneur is willing to expand
through capital investment. " I.E. Enron's
collapse is just proof how good the system is
working!)
----4. The lack of competence in the White
House staff never ceases to amaze -- note
the many typos throughout the press release.
----5. The ranting reference to "evil ones" --
he's beginning to sound like one of the more
paranoid of the paranoid schizophrenics who
lead ultra-evangelic hell and brimstone
congregations.
----6. The call to Americans to be just as
paranoid as he is, and to spy and snitch on
their neighbors: "We've got to remain on
alert. You see something unusual happening
in your community, contact the local law
enforcement. We're on the look [huh?]. But
the truth of the matter is, the best way to
protect America is find the enemy where
they hide and get 'em." No-one seems to
remember that Hitler made the same call to
the German people.
----7. The total lack of sincerity. He is
playing to a Deep South audience, probably
hand-picked (no one with an IQ above 75
admitted) so their response will readily jive
with the engineered approval ratings touted
by the press. The press release even includes
"Applause" in the text in all the right places.
----To summarize: This isn't
posted on January 25, 2002 09:57:33 AM new
You do realize that Bush had appointed Kenneth Lay to oversee the Securitites & Exchange Commission, don't you? That's typical of Bush appointees: putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse.
