The reality of this situation
Wed Jan 16 08:20:42 2002

According to the Clinton Standard of Corruption, all of the following presidential acts are OK:
(1) Bill Clinton plays golf with Ken Lay.

(2) Clinton meets personally with Ken Lay in the Oval Office

(3) Lay contributes big bucks to Clinton but they are not considered bribes.

(4) Bill Clinton sells Ken Lay overnights in the Lincoln Bedroom at least once.

(5) Lay serves as “adviser” to Clinton on energy issues soliciting Lay's "advice" on important treaties and legislation

(6) Bill Clinton and the DNC rake in Enron’s $530,000 during the 2000 election alone.

(7) Ken Lay hires Betsy Moler, Clinton's deputy energy secretary, as his consultant. She was accused of obstructing Energy Deprt’s counterintelligence chief Notra Trulock from briefing Congress about Chinese espionage and security lapses at Energy's nuclear weapons labs

(8) Dynergy, an energy company which wanted to buy Enron and later sued them, donated thousands of dollars to Henry Waxman, who is leading the Enron investigation.

(9) Florida's state pension fund, which lost $325 million on Enron, is examining what role Frank Savage, a major Democratic donor, may have played in the state's loss. The fund's investments were directed by Alliance Capital Management, where Savage was a senior executive and chairman at the same time he sat on Enron's board. He has donated $100,000 to Democrats and is raising money for New York gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall.

(10) Government records show Lay and other Enron executives got seats on at least four Clinton Energy Department and at least seven Ron Brown Commerce Department trade trips.

(11) Lay retains as his top D.C. lobbyist Linda Robertson, a Democrat who worked for the Clinton Treasury Department.

(12) Ron Brown, Al Gore and Bill Clinton introduce Enron to market managers in Russia, China, Indonesia and India.

(13) Thanks to Clinton-Gore-Brown, Enron is involved in one of India’s most massive corruption investigations, contracts were canceled and Enron was out.

(14) Enron introduces the Clinton team to Lippo Industries and thence to China's People's Liberation Army (a source of mega-political cash), and to John Huang,

(15) Clinton's national security adviser, Tony Lake shakes-down impoverished, war-torn Mozambique to sign a $770 million electric power contract.indicating their congressionally approved $44 million U.S. aid payment would cease if they didn’t sign.

(16) Lay hires the firm of Clinton's ex- chief of staff Mack McLarty (Mack’s a former used car salesman)

(17) Enron contributes more big bucks to the DNC and Democrats election campaigns..

(18) Enron acknowledges it overstated its income for more than four years whether through criminal negligence or intent to defraud.

(19) Enron executives sell stock shortly before the company announced a restatement of earnings.

(20) Arthur Andersen executives order the destruction of Enron documents while aware of the existence of an SEC probe.

(21) Robert Rubin, ex-Clinton Trasury Secretary uses his influence to intervene for Enron, calling Clinton appointee still hanging on to his job in the new administration.

(22) Enron contributed a total of $25,000 in 2000 to the group founded by Sen Lieberman, the New Democrat Network, according to IRS records. Enron's biggest creditor, Citigroup, Inc. is listed as Lieberman's largest single contributor ($112,546) for the period 1997-2002 by the FEC. Citigroup, Inc. also made $100,000 in contributions to Lieberman's New Democrat Network in 2001. Arthur Andersen, Enron's auditing firm, contributed $20,000 to the New Democrat Network in 2001. Lieberman is heading up the Senate probe of Enron and refuses to recuse himself.

(23) Democrats keep pointing the finger at Bush and rev up the investigative engines

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According to the Clinton Standard of Corruption, this is not OK:
(1) George Bush does not invite Ken Lay into the Oval Office

(2) George Bush does not sell Ken Lay the Lincoln Bedroom

(3) Gorge Bush does not take money from Lay to influence legislation

(4) George Bush refuses to intervene into the nefarious fall of Lay-Enron