> Don't expect to see either Bush or Vice President Cheney directly linked
to
> the financial shenanigans that brought Enron down. They won't be. This is
> not about finding a smoking gun, as much as some Democrats might wish it
> were.
>
> What it is about, and what the public will get to hear and read about in
> wrenching detail over the coming months, is how business gets done down in
> Texas. How a small group of business leaders exert enormous clout over
Bush
> and his team in getting the rules changed to their benefit.
>
> It will explain why Bush has locked up presidential records, locked out
any
> voices opposed to his pro-business agenda and rammed through an expensive
> economic plan that wiped out the budget surplus but to date hasn't had any
> positive effect on the economy.
>
> It will explain what influence Enron Chief Executive Ken Lay and his
> advisers had with Cheney and his energy task force when they met six times
> last year while the vice president was putting together the
administration's
> energy policy.
>
> And it will explain why Bush is now thinking about acting on a proposal
from
> that very task force that seeks to roll back a key provision of the Clean
> Air Act that helps keep factory pollution down by requiring new controls
> when old plants are upgraded.
This is sort of thin gruel, scandal-wise.
Seth