Thursday, February 21, 2002
"WASHINGTON -- Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay offered a seat on the company's board in 1999 to Robert Rubin, who was then treasury secretary, and lobbied Rubin and his successor on issues affecting Enron, documents obtained Wednesday show. The notes and letters show that Lay pressed Enron's interests to Clinton administration officials."
Our thanks to Rush Limbaugh.com
Ringraziamenti mólto, amici: Rome's dogged carabiniere
have busted a gang of Moroccans with piles of high-grade
cyanide in their possession. Italian officials say the poison was headed
for
the water supply system at the American embassy there.
Time to stop yawning
at Tom Ridge's warnings just because he gives them in such a low energy
presentation. Maybe he does it that way because he's afraid to scream.
Someone better start.
It's Déjà vu All Over Again: If you don't feel like screaming yet -
try this
one.
Here's a little chiller
about a rocket (maybe) fired (supposedly) at
two
commercial jets over Washington, D.C. (a witness says). If this stuff is
going to keep up perhaps we could have a faster, saner, more attentive
reporting system? Come on you guys. Everyone is trying to help.
Enron Splatter: The Sisyphean slime ball the increasingly irrelevant
James
Carville and Co. keep pushing up the administration's hill has rolled back
down and
made mess all over Clinton.
The Washington Times points to
the $1 billion in subsidized loans to Enron Corp. projects overseas at a
time when Enron was contributing nearly $2 million to Democratic causes.
While over at the NY Times,
Bill Safire awakes
from his slumber to tell us
about Anne Bingaman, wife of New Mexico's Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the
Energy and Natural Resources Committee who walked with a $2 million Enron
bundle for six months work.
Paul, On The Ball: For consistently in depth follow-the-bouncing-
graft
-bag coverage of how Enron isn't a Republican scandal, always
click on Paul
Sperry at World Net Daily. Here is last night's offering and its a doozy, as
usual.
Weirdest Story of the Week: The story of dead bodies littering a town
in
Georgia like flung confetti gets stranger by the day. This morning's Atlanta
Journal-Consitution reports how a local lawmaker fixed it so the Tri-State
Crematorium would never be inspected. Without oversight, the bodies could
keep piling up. There is
something so troubling
about this grisly story. We
don't think this happened because the "oven didn't work."
LDotter Note: Thank you for your patience about the missing Short
Cuts
yesterday. Sometimes we feel we should go dark for a day just to gauge the
impact. Apparently, it was larger than we thought. After posting that our
AOL Road Runner high speed service had crashed leaving us with no way to get
this column done in less than five hours - AOL stock dropped nine points.
Loyal Ldotter Swamp Fox wrote admiringly of our "raw power." Thank you,
Swamp
Fox. We're pleased you noticed.
-Your Powerful But Nicely Cooked LComStaff
-- Anonymous, February 21, 2002