William Rivers Pitt: Kenny-Boy and George

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Kenny-Boy and George

By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wednesday 07 July 2004

You have to love the irony: Since Kerry announced his VP choice of John Edwards, the Bush campaign has broadbanded the anti-Edwards slam that he is nothing more than your basic gutter-dwelling trial lawyer. This comes blithely on the heels of Bush hiring his own trial lawyer to protect him during the 70-minute Oval Office interrogation he endured regarding the Valerie Plame CIA-outing case some weeks ago. Everyone hates lawyers until they need one, it seems.

Perhaps Bush doesn't like trial lawyers because a team of them failed to keep his long-time friend and financial backer, Kenneth Lay, from getting his hide nailed to the shed in Houston. According to CNN, Lay was indicted by a Texas grand jury today for crimes relating to the apocalyptic Enron scandal. The indictment is sealed until further notice, so no determination of the exact criminal charges can be made.

Damn lawyers.

For those who cannot quite recall the specifics of Ken Lay and Enron, a bit of background is in order. Lay, along with Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling and some dozens of other high-flying bosses from Enron, are accused of insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy, manipulation of earnings reports to hide the fact that Enron was hemorrhaging cash from every pore while they reaped massive salaries and bonuses, and finally, manipulation of the California energy market for no other reason than to wring pin money out of grandmothers who were forced to live in the dark because they couldn't afford to pay their Enron-inflated energy bills.

Tape recordings of Enron energy traders were recently aired by CBS News. In one segment, the traders can be heard discussing the ins and outs of manipulating the California energy market. "They're fucking taking all the money back from you guys?" complains one Enron employee. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?" The response: "Yeah, grandma Millie, man." Another response: "Yeah, now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her asshole for fucking $250 a megawatt hour."

Charming.

-snip-

Read it and weep ....

[trumad]

1. Here's the link

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/070804A.shtml

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8. Hot damn ...

I fergot the link, and moved on to other more productive things (like getting to work) ...

Thanks ...

[Walt Starr]

2. So do ya suppose ti's time to pull out the neologism

Enronomics?

:evilgrin:

[kentuck]

3. Walt, were you the originator of that phrase ?

that has become part of the national lexicon? :) I know it was a DUer...

[Walt Starr]

4. Yup

Right here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/12/14_enronomy.html

[kentuck]

6. A lot of newbies may not realize what influential posters we have here...

on DU.. :)

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11. William Rivers Pitt ...

Is a national treasure ....

We are blessed ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Well done!

I see you have independent confirmation, too ...

http://www.wordspy.com/words/Enronomics.asp

[donhakman]

5. Endron

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/enron.html

[donhakman]

9. boy bush and kenny boy

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10. I went in search of my old bookmarks in 'old' DU ...

But damn I couldnt find any about Enron ...

I was looking for:

1) The quote by Fritz Hollings about 'only getting $3000 dollars' from Enron ..

2) The infamous list written by Kenny Boy to Dickface ...

3) The quotes by Bush and Dickface about how they would NOT intervene, and about how the problems in CA were 'caused' by liberal energy policies ...

I could SWEAR I had all that stuff saved .....

Didnt old DU lose some bookmarks once ? ... I mean: prior to the DU2 switcheroo ? ..

[WilliamPitt]

12. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1255847

[ClassWarrior]

13. Magnificent as always, Will.

n/t

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14. Muchos Gracias Senor ...

Yeah .... THATS the one ...

I mean: Si Senor ! ...