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Oh, lemme gloat a little bit\u2026I wrote here<\/a>:
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\nThe Enron verdict is guilty. It will be spun as a disaster for the Bushies, and no mention will be made of Clinton bringing Enron folk to India with him while in office or of his playing golf with Kenny Boy. What\u2019s new?<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, Howard Fineman did the honors<\/a> and in a very sloppy manner, as we read from Stephen Spruiell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is one of the most astonishing opinion pieces I\u2019ve ever read. The title is \u201cHow Enron Tarnishes the Bush Era.\u201d I read it expecting (hoping?) to at least see some evidence and argument supporting the title. Fineman starts out well with caveats about how President Bush was not close to Enron\u2019s executives; how the Bush administration didn\u2019t bail out Enron before it collapsed, and how Enron started cooking the books during the \u201cgo-go Clinton years.\u201d Caveats out of the way, what do we get as evidence supporting the piece\u2019s title? The following:<\/em><\/p>\n

As Texas governor from 1995 to 2000, Bush and consiglieri Karl Rove cultivated the Enronites for their vast connections and money; more than that, Bush linked arms with Lay in the belief that market forces alone should guide the production, distribution and use of energy. But the theory ran riot at Enron, giving license to corporate buccaneers who blithely screwed consumers, employees and shareholders alike.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all we get supporting Fineman\u2019s viewpoint: cultivating relationships with a major corporation in the state you govern and supporting a free-market approach to energy policy makes you part and parcel of the corruption at Enron.
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\nI eagerly await Fineman\u2019s next piece on how Enron\u2019s lobbying for the regulation of carbon-dioxide emissions (Enron wanted to make a market for trading carbon dioxide emission permits) tarnishes Al Gore\u2019s efforts to combat global warming. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the rest from Spruiell.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Howard Fineman has ever gotten over Don Imus remarking that he seemed like a Bush fan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"