Enron

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 11 10:18:31 PST 2002


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> There will be calls for
>> legislative reform, but for the sake of bi-partisanship, congressional
>> Democrats will do nothing. Hearings will proceed and various boards
>> and commission will promise to do better.
>
>Why should Dems be bipartisan- they actually do like winning elections,
>whatever you think of their progressive credentials, and the advantage of
>Democrats becoming nearly an extinct species at the upper level of Texas
>politics is that taking out Enron and its associated sleaze is unlikely to
>implicate any political friends.
>
>Seems like a pure winning issue for the Dems to ride into the elections,
>with investigations and legislative proposals. No reason for bipartisanship
>anywhere on this one.

Ok, let's view this as a test: will the Dems be even half as tenacious and partisan on Enron as the Repubs were on Clinton's scandals? I bet not.

Doug



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