outrage, where?

[Jim Baldauf]

Or, upon whose gore is being axed. Yuk, yuk, yuk!
jb


> It all depends upon whose ox is being gored.
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> B.
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> >Subject: outrage, where?
> >Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:57:43 -0600
> >
> >John DePaola: 'Anti-Clinton pit bulls don't even bark at Bush-Enron
> >scandal' Posted on Sunday, December 30 @ 09:29:06 EST
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >John DePaola, Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star
> >
> >It is official. Enron's financial collapse is the largest bankruptcy
> >in American history ["Enron files for bankruptcy, sues Dynegy," Dec.
> >3]. The company's failure has cost 21,000 people their jobs and many
> >their pensions. Top Enron executives have fled the country after
> >taking huge bonuses during the last year.
> >
> >Over the last several years, Enron and its president and founder,
> >Kenneth Lay, have been the single largest contributor to the
> >gubernatorial and presidential campaigns of George W. Bush. Enron
> >executives enjoyed unfettered access to the highest levels of the
> >administration, and Mr. Lay was the only individual to have a private
> >meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney to offer advice as the
> >administration secretly crafted its energy policy.
> >
> >My question is: Where is the outrage? Why aren't conservatives like
> >Bill Bennett huffing and puffing all over Fox News about the
> >corruption at the highest levels of the administration? Why aren't
> >there congressional investigations issuing subpoenas to the
> >administration demanding to know details about the Bush-Lay
> >relationship?
> >
> >Why hasn't Gail Sheehy written a 10,000-word psycho-babble expose for
> >Vanity Fair about Bush's deep personality flaws and why he is drawn
> >to consort with criminals? Why isn't a partisan special prosecutor
> >rummaging through Mrs. Bush's underwear drawer looking for evidence
> >of the Bush-Enron relationship? Why hasn't the press written dozens
> >of above-the-fold stories decrying Mr. Bush as a "serial liar"?
> >
> >Where are the hundreds of FBI agents descending upon Texas talking to
> >every kook with an ax to grind against Bush and his staff? Where are
> >the special reports on CNN with animated computerized logos:
> >"American Corruption: Bush and Enron"?
> >
> >A few short years ago, we were told that we needed to know all of the
> >details that could possibly be found about a failed land deal 18
> >years ago that cost the Clintons $20,000. It was called Whitewater.
> >After a $50,000,000 investigation, nothing was found against the
> >Clintons. No indictments, no criminality, no civil liability.
> >Nothing. Compared to the Enron-Bush debacle, Whitewater is a walk in
> >the park.
> >
> >It is an absolute outrage that the pit bulls who investigated every
> >aspect of Whitewater have been absolutely silent on the Bush-Enron
> >connection.
> >
> >Reprinted from The Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star:
> >http://fredericksburg.com/News/ FLS/2001/122001/12292001/478399/
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