• Fetus reclassified as ‘unborn child’
  Bush administration changes term to expand prenatal care
  So they say - we see a not-so-well hidden agenda
• The Payoff
  by David Podvin
  "In 2000, when Karl Rove called General Electric Chairman Jack Welch to guarantee that a Bush Administration would be extremely generous to media conglomerates that were sympathetic to the Texas governor’s presidential campaign, it was a notable moment in history.
  If only this once, Rove wasn’t lying."
• Bush pinpoints North Korea, Iran and Iraq as the 'axis of evil'
  Bush wants perpetual war. He needs it: to distract attention from his crime-riddled Enron residency, to pad the war chests of the military-industrial welfare recipients, of which he will be one, and to find villains to make his own villainy seem minor by comparison. Likewise, he extends the 'axis of evil'. If this is the axis, Bush himself is at least a major spoke.
• Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) calls for a Special Prosecutor
  in letter to Ashcroft
• Waxman/Dingell Press again for full disclosure
• Surprise of the day #1:
  Enron Acknolwedges Under-reporting Lobbying by up to HALF!
  (Feign Surprised Look Now)
• Surprise of the day #2:
  Deadly Anthrax Strain Came from Texas
  (If you can still act surprised, you deserve an award)
• Voting Rights in Peril
• GAO to sue White House for records
• A Blue Burka for Justice (Maureen Dowd)
  "The theme of Bush I is now the theme of Bush II: Trust us, even if we won't let you verify. We know we're right. We answer to no one."
• Memo details Cheney-Enron links
  Company's suggestions resembled elements of the administration's energy policy
• What's the Real State of the Dis-Union?
  
  
• Jeb Bush's daughter arrested on false prescription charge.
  From Enron to Demron, the fraudulent Bushes' imbroglios continue. BTW, who looks like more of a dope, Noelle Bush, or Uncle W?

• Pundit Pick of the Day
  The real scandal is business as usual
  by James Howard Gibbons, Houston Chronicle
  ..."Bush -- congenitally dedicated to government by the few, for the few, at the expense of the many -- let months go by before expressing disapproval of Enron officials' deceit. Even feigned concern for abused workers, pensioners and small investors does not occur naturally in the Bush White House, but must be prescribed and scripted by highly paid political strategists."
• Friends in High Places
  by William Rivers Pitt
  "Enron simply could not have done all of this without significant help from people in powerful positions, and someone must answer for it."
• Some Random Thoughts on Bush's First Year
  by W. David Jenkins III
  Perhaps not breaking news, but from Democrats.com
  this is refreshing validation and worth a re-read
• U.S. Military Planning New Domestic Command
  I don't like the sound of this....
  
• Dems Ask GAO to Study Terror Laws
  Feingold and Conyers complain that the new law
  could infringe upon civil rights.
  
• The Battle Back Home
  Cheney Calls Daschle with a plea and a warning not to publicly investigate pre-9/11 government preparedness and warnings
  MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE!!
• Cheney must come clean over Enron
  The White House is asking for trouble in an important election year by adopting a bunker mentality over the Enron scandal
• Energy standoff may land in court
  GAO wants task force information; White House says no.
• Enron's End Run: The Bush White House's Brewing Scandal
  Analysis - the history, the favors
• When the Business of Business Is Politics . . .
  Enron has exposed the dangers of the Bush approach to politics
• Poor marks on the environment
  Bush has filled nearly all the critical posts where policy is hatched and regulations written with people who regard the environment as a resource to be exploited and who have earned their keep representing logging, mining, oil, livestock and other interests.
• Kennedy's tax sense
  Bush's tax cuts, combined with the recession and increased defense spending, threaten the long-term prospects for adequate budget surpluses.
• The Media: Pro-US Tendency is Seen in Survey
  What we've known all along...U.S. media cheating public

• The strange and convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter—
  Enron executive found shot to death
  The most disturbing account of Baxter’s last days comes from a former business associate who spoke to the New York Times but was not identified by the newspaper. This person spoke with the former Enron vice chairman two days before his death and congratulated him “for being named among those people who complained about Enron.” According to the Times account, the unnamed associate added that Baxter “was talking about perhaps needing a bodyguard, though I’m not sure where that idea came from”. . .
  Under such conditions, the sudden death of a crucial witness inevitably raises the suspicion that it is not just pieces of paper and computer data that are being destroyed to protect the corporate and political gangsters at the top, but human lives as well. Given the organized shredding operation, a systematic effort to destroy incriminating documents, Baxter’s evidence would be all the more critical, since he could testify, from the perspective of the highest levels of the company, what information Enron and Andersen were so afraid of. How can one not assume that Baxter, too, was “shredded” to prevent him from taking the witness stand?
• Pundit Pick of the Day:
  Is George W. Bush Deluded or Simply a Liar? And Which is Worse?
  by Tyler Durden
• Bush links grow as top Enron man found dead
  
• Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals With Hussein
  San Francisco Bay Guardian archive article - 10/26/01
  News worth repeating
• Waxman: White House changed energy plan to help Enron
• Cheney says he won't turn over energy list
  "Snow job" in the White House! How disgusting!!
• GAO Vows to Sue for Cheney Files
  Hill Probes Enron Influence on Task Force
• Baxter Death Ruled Suicide; Probe Goes On
  BTW, Isn't there a law against "assisted suicide"?
  Seems to be a lot of it going on around the Bush Administration fringe
• Softer on Terrorism?
  Why Bush deserves his share of the 9/11 blame
• What's Bush got to do..... got to do with it?
• The Enron Scandal Grazes Another Bush in Florida
  "Jeb Bush showed complete insensitivity and arrogance by doing the fundraiser at the former Enron president's home last week," said Bob Poe, chairman of the Florida Democratic party. "It raises questions as to what links he might have with Enron..."
• Pipelineistan, Part 2
  The games nations play
• O'Connor Wishes Bush V. Gore Had Never Come Up
  It shouldn't have, Ms. Injustice...
  Having a twinge of guilty conscience, perhaps?
  We haven't forgiven - we will not forget!
• Mr. Leahy and Judges
  Republicans blocked President Clinton's nominees for years, keeping seats open that Bush is now keen to fill.
• Planet of the Privileged
  More on Bush admin and Enron
• Spreading It Around
  Conservatives are slinging Enron muck at liberals,
  hoping that some of it will stick

• For Gramms, Enron Is Hard to Escape
  Senator, Wife Face Conflict Questions but
  Say They Never Did Firm's Bidding
  (Bad Karma's gonna get you, Phil....what goes around comes around)
• National Security Council Aided Enron's Efforts
  Agency Sought Lay Meeting With Indians on Plant
• Bush Aide Got Christian Coaliton Head Ralph Reed an early Treasure --on Earth--from, you guessed it, Bush-ENRON!
• Former Enron executive dies in "apparent suicide."
  That's right, this once vocal critic of Enron's off-loading of debt to subsidiaries shows up dead, and we're supposed to believe it was suicide. The bodies are beginning to smell of rot
  (to the Bush-Enron core)
• The scandal that has left the credibility of American politics in shreds By Andrew Gumbel 25 January 2002
  It has been just over a month since the energy trading company Enron – once America's seventh largest corporation and the emblem of the new economy, George Bush style – filed for bankruptcy following revelations of major accounting irregularities and the overnight collapse of investor confidence. But the fall-out is just beginning.
• PIPELINEISTAN: Part I - THE RULES OF THE GAME
  War against terrorism? Not really. Reminder: it's all about oil. A quick look at the map is all it takes. It's no coincidence that the map of terror in the Middle East and Central Asia is practically interchangeable with the map of oil. There's Infinite Justice, Enduring Freedom - and Everlasting Profits to be made..."
• Connecting The Oil-Drenched Dots
  Rigging An Election To Secure The Pipe Dream Through Central Asia
• Supporters to force vote on campaign finance reform
  Enron collapse garners support for reform
• Enron and the Bushes
  How Enron's connections with the Bushes stretch not
  just to Washington but around the world
• Rove Waves Flag For G.O.P. Candidates
  The notion that Republicans are "better" on issues of national security is a myth that has long been exploited for partisan purposes
• In Personal Anecdote, Some See New Distance
  Where Others See New Strategy
  "This is very dangerous for the president," said Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. "I don't know that the president can attack Enron and be plausible or authentic. It will not take away the close relationships between Enron and Arthur Andersen and the administration. It will look like hypocrisy."
• Energy Task Force Records Still Closed
  Bush administration argues that the Cheney task force is not a federal agency and therefore is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.
• Bush to Propose Budget Deficits
  $106 Billion! Georgie should stay for a math class next
  time he visits an elementary school
• A Trillion Here, A Trillion There
  So far the administration's response to changing circumstances has been to cling tightly to its original position, proposing only to accelerate some tax cuts and attacking those who doubt their wisdom. But there was reason to question the affordability of those cuts in the first place, and there's even more now.
• Bush Budget Favors Defense, Economy
  ``Read my lips: No more surpluses,'' said Rep. John Spratt
• All Enron Cards on the Table
  Anxiety in the White House...what a tangled web we weave.....
• US anthrax attackers aimed to assassinate Democratic leaders
  Media silent on military links

• Conservative rhetoric makes mockery of U.S. 'solidarity'
• IGNORAD - The military screw-up nobody talks about
• Numbers predict budget squeeze
  "This is a lot like Enron," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). "The top one or two percent of the public will get major tax cuts paid for by the retirement earnings of Social Security and Medicare by the majority of Americans."
• CIA complicit on September 11?
  An interview with Michael Springman exposes the CIA's links with the terrorist attacks on September 11
• Enron Evasions - Lessons from Ari Fleischer in the art of spin.
• If the Math's a Bit Fuzzy, the Politics Are Clear
  Bush should take some arithmetic lessons when he visits those elementary schools
• Bush Makes Recess Appointment to SEC
  Another sneaky appointment
• Enron Auditor Refuses to Testify
  For fear of incriminating self, will not testify without immunity.

• A Strategy's Cautious Evolution
  Before Sept. 11, the Bush Anti-Terror Effort Was Mostly Ambition
• The Bush Economic Gap
  The wolf in sheep's clothing
• Pundit Pick of the Day
  Let There Be Light
  by William Rivers Pitt
  Part III of the Bush/Enron/Taliban Series
• Enron Is Proving Costly to U.S. Economy
  Energy projects valued at $12 billion are on hold as financial markets make it tougher to raise capital.
• Gephardt Criticizes Partisan War Comments
• Enron's Lay Met With Executive on 'Improprieties,' Lawyer Says
• In Houston, the Lines Dividing Politics, Business and Society Are Especially Blurry
• Andersen recovers missing Enron files
• White House Aided Enron in Disputes
  Cheney, Others Intervened Over Indian Power Plant
• Blair's warning on prisoners
  Prime Minister tells Bush to tread carefully as opposition grows to treatment of captured Taliban fighters
• The New Kleptocracy
  Tax The Poor, Give It To The Rich!
• Evidence Indicates That O’Neill Helped Enron Hide Financial Condition
  Public Citizen Calls on Treasury Secretary to Explain

• Enron: A Scandal So Good That It Hurts
  By John Balzar, LA Times
• Tomb Raiders
  GW's Texan Funeralgate Spreads to Jeb's State
• What Happened to the Surplus?
  Detecting Misleading Figures and Avoiding Being "Spun"
• The United States of Enron
• Republicans Benefit from War Credentials
  Karl Rove says so
• Enron and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in fraud and criminality
• Bush gave Enron Breathing Room
  White House backed off banking laws
• Don't Attack Bush on Taxes Yet, Democrats' Leader Tells Party
  "George Bush got us in this mess," Mr. McAuliffe said at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee here. "I want the president to explain how he's going to fix it."
• Administration Ties to Arthur Andersen Nearly as Tight as Those to Enron

• Pundit Pick of the Day
  Where's the Outrage Over Enron Scandal?
  by Joe Conason
  Today some of the fiercest pundits of yesteryear sound as if they're ready to whimper and roll over.
• Enron and the Gramms
  By Bob Herbert
  "When Senator Phil Gramm and his wife Wendy danced, it was most often to Enron's tune."
• Veep Tried to Aid Enron
  Cheney tried to help Enron collect a $64 million debt from a giant energy project in India.
• Enron Ties Permeate Bush Ranks
• Phil Gramm's Enron Favor
• Bush: No 'Fishing' For Info Allowed in Enron Debacle
• A White House Under Wraps
• Media and War, Appearance and Reality
  Coverage of the "war on terrorism" has reversed the traditional role between the press and the military. Abandoning the hypercritical coverage of the past, the media have become cheerleaders -- allowing the conflict in Afghanistan to become synonymous with the war at large and portraying that war as an unalloyed success. The reversal of roles between media and military creates public expectations that can affect the prosecution of the war
• Enron's Influence Reached Deep Into the Administration: Ties touched personnel and policies
  "According to financial records, 35 [Bush] administration officials have held Enron stock… A few, such as top Bush political adviser Karl Rove, had six-figure holdings."
• A System Corrupted
  Enron - "The truth is that key institutions that underpin our economic system havebeen corrupted. The only question that remains is how far and how high the corruption extends."
• Kennedy Calls for Delaying Tax Cuts to Help Pay for Drug Plan and Child Care
• Former Enron president to host Bush fund-raiser
• Wellstone Calls Scalia Labor Appointment a Setback for America's Working Men and Women
• Enron's Ties to a Leader of House Republicans Went Beyond Contributions to His Campaign
• Judge overseeing host of Enron suits recuses self
• U.S. OKs oil drilling in Big Cypress, despite environmental worries

• Crony Capitalism, U.S.A
  Paul Krugman, New York Times
  "And why does the press act as if there may be a major scandal brewing? Because the administration fears, and the press suspects, that the latest revelations in the Enron affair will raise the lid on crony capitalism, American style."
• The 20 percent manifesto
  David Harris, San Francisco Chronicle
  Why the "invisible 20%" need to express our opposition
  to what is happening in America today
• Bush to Lay: What Was Your Name Again?
  Robert Scheer, LA Times
  "But, as the good ol' boys in Texas--and now Bush spokesman Ari Fleisher--like to say, "That dog won't hunt."
• Carlyle's Way
  Dan Briody, Red Herring
  Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government and industry
• When in Doubt, Shred It
• Bush Administration Rolls Back Clinton Rules for Wetlands
  Another coup for developers and setback for environmentalist

• Bush chokes on pretzel
  What? Karl Rove has to chew his food for him now, too?
• Contacts between Enron and Bush Cabinet Detailed
• Dan Brown: We need to investigate Enron ties to government
  
• "Bush and Enron's Collapse" (appropos title-- read: Bush's collapse and Enron's colapse), Jan 11th 2002, From The Economist Global Agenda
• White House Connections: To Enron (from CBS News.com--go GET 'EM!!!)
• Lights Out: Enron’s Failed Power Play To George W. Bush, the head of Enron was ‘Kenny Boy’—until now. As the shock waves from the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history shake Washington, the scandal machine is cranking up in search of a White House connection. Let the Enron Wars begin By Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK Jan. 21 issue
• [P]resident Bush fires entire labor-management relations panel, By Kellie Lunney. Why Bush would fire an entire panel whose function was to arbitrate disputes with unions representing government employees? What will he do instead, outaw strikes? Bust unions? or is this the job of his newest political pay-back appointee, Eugene Scalia--Antonin Scalia's son, to whom he has just given a job in return for a stolen election?
  
• Debunking the Big-Spender Myth, by John Balzar, LA Times
  
• Bush Order Attempts to Overturn the Law, Take the Power Back
  Historians, Public Interest Groups Sue to Stop Bush Order
  Say New Restrictions on White House Files Violate Presidential Records Act
• Meet Enron, Bush's Biggest Contributor
• Bush Negotiated with the Taliban
• Economic Collapse, Political Fallout
  Critics Zero in on Bush Administration Silence on Contracts
• Sen. Phil Gramm's wife receives Enron subpeona
• Will Bush bring the party with him?
• Reading between the lines
  How Bush's education bill benefits conservatives and corporations
• Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson Tied to Enron
• Arthur Andersen Destroys Enron Files
• Arthur Andersen Managing Partner in GW's $100,000 Club

• Abraham got thousands from nuke biz
  Michigan voters got him out of the Senate - Bush unleashes him on the world. Now, within the next decade, radioactive waste will be pouring into Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The Department of Energy's decision to recommend the site is a jackpot victory for the nuclear power industry.
• Bush ties to Enron's Ken Lay are "broad and and go back many years, and the relationship has been beneficial to both."
• Star Wars shields $600 million of Enron debt from books
• COUNTERSPIN - THE ECONOMY
  Poverty...Taxes...Spending... Why the right is wrong
  Things to remember when educating people about Bush's
  godawful economic proposals & policies
• Conservative watchdog group issues press release calling for appointment of special counsel to investigate Enrongate - "because no one is above the law"
• Something good comes out of Texas:
  Dallas News investigates Bush claim that Enron chief was
  Richards supporter - in fact, Lay gave triple the cash to Bush
• In sneaky State and Labor appointments, Supreme Injustice Scalia gets
  bonus payoff for installing the illegitimate resident in the White House
  But then one would guess that Bush always did the most work during recess.
  Is that why he always visits elementary schools?
• Upside Down Flags Used in Protest
  Bravo, Mari Anderson!
• Liberal bias in the media? Look again
• Kennedy calls for delay in next round of tax cuts
  which would mostly benefit the upper class
• Good riddance to three men whose departure will raise
  the median decency of the United States Senate

• Pundit Pick of (Yester)Day
  Steven Pizzo: Bush Family Value$
  The Bush Clan's Family Business
• Our Wretched States, by Paul Krugman, NYT
• Bush sneaks two recess appointments through for Reich and Scalia
• Ken Lay asked for help from the Treasury Dept.
• Is George Bush God's President?
• Your Tar & Feathers Ready? Mine Are...

• Pundit Pick of the Day: Hell to Pay, William Pitt Article
• Ashcroft removes himself from Enron case
• CNN's Second Transcript from American Morning with Paula Zahn
  Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban
• "We're Due [For A Terrorist Attack"
  What FBI Terrorist Expert John O'Neill "told friends just before September 11th"
• Enron’s Blackout Cuts Power Behind Numerous Thrones
• New York Times defends Bush on links to Enron corporate fraud
• Feds Begin Probe of Enron Downfall
• Compassionately Conserving Enron
• Joined at the Hip
• GAO to Decide Within Month on Suing White House
• Free Speech: Casualty of War?
• Ashcroft Ignores First Amendment
• Bush Wants Fast Nuke Test Ability
• More Evil work of the Supreme Injustices
  

• Who Killed John O'Neill?
• AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban. Read Transcripts about book to expose the Bush Fraudulent "war on terrorism." We knew it all along!
• Democrats Squeeze information from White House
  on Enron-Cheney meetings
• Is George W. Bush God's President?
• Let down his rich pals? Over his dead body
• Political dissent can bring federal agents to door

• The Press vs. Al Gore: How lazy reporting, pack journalism and GOP spin cost him the election [not to mention that he actually won and had the election stolen], by ERIC BOEHLERT, Rolling Stone
• Then, Emile Zola Wrote His "J'Accuse"; Now, Tina Staik Asks, "Is it a coincidence...?"
  Is it a coincidence that the three most essential tools we have in restoring democracy and ending the corruption--a Congress that is REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL PEOPLE, an ELECTED president, and a FREE press--have been stolen from U.S. citizens, one by one...?
• "The decision has been made" - Gore to run in 2004
• Fast Track to Nowhere: Trade vote could cost GOP control of House
• "Bush is a Corporate Pawn." So says protestor's sign in Portland, Oregon. Let the Protests Resume!!!
• Full transcript of Daschle's Remarks
• Summarized outline of Daschle's Plan
• Molly Ivins: Slop for the corporate swine
  Big business drools over more helpings of 'economic stimulus'
• Redefining Terrorism Threatens our Liberty
• Talkin' About the F-word
• Facts Altered in Anti-Terror Effort
• Patriotism on the Cheap
  note- New York Times articles now require free registration to read
  Well worth the time
• The Rise of the Fourth Reich
  A lesson from history that bears repeating - again and again
  until Americans listen
• Homeland Security, Homeland Profits
• Bush Asked to Drop Disputed Appointee
  New York Times Article
• Judge OK's Keyboard Sniffing
• New House Stimulus Proposal Dominated by Multi-Year or Permanent Tax Cuts Proposed legislation continues to be dominated by multi-year (and, in some cases, permanent tax cuts for corporations and higher-income individuals
• Conyers Confronts Ashcroft Over Covert Detention of Michigan Pastor
• Ignorance is not bliss
  Lack of reporting civilian casualties from the war in Afghanistan is keeping Americans in the dark -- and endangering their future

• "Enron Is a Cancer on the Presidency," by Robert Sheer, LA Times
• Oil Company Advisor Named US Representative to Afghanistan
• Above the Law: Bush's Racial Coup d'Tat
  and Intell[igence] Shutdown
  Greg Palast interview
• FBI Implicated In Anthrax Mailings Cover-Up
• Senate to subpoena Enron Execs, Auditors
• The Enron Economy
  Expect Republican legislators to resist these investigations at every turn. For the dots lead directly to both the ideology and organization of George W. Bush.
• The Polluters' President
• Mistranslated Osama bin Laden Video - the German Press Investigates
• Why I Won't Wave the Flag -
  Despite the Sorrows of Sept. 11
  When a person is convinced of the truth of his ideas, is willing to state them openly, and accepts the risks and consequences of his words, that person truly honors freedom.
• Executive Privilege Again
• Bush, Unions Tangle Over Labor Rules

• How Islam Lost Its Way Yesterday's Achievements Were Golden; Today, Reason Has Been Eclipsed
  Very well-written, informed, and balanced view of contemporary Islam and the Moslem world that doesn't attribute all its problems to U.S. imperial hegemony, yet doesn't let the U.S. off the hook for its role in the region either. Excellent!
• David Broder: Bush's Stealthy Pursuit of a Partisan Agenda
• Thomas Friedman: Let's Roll
  Bush has tried to use the tremendous upsurge in patriotism, bipartisanship and volunteerism triggered by the tragedy of Sept. 11 to drive a narrow, right-wing agenda from Sept. 10 into a Sept. 12 world. It's wrong. It won't work. It sells the country short ....
• Another Bush, Another Recession
• Who said it - McCarthy or Ashcroft? Take this revealing quiz!
• Winning with the Military Clinton Left Behind
• Will the Enron Scandal Break Wide Open?

• My Way, the High Way - Sen. James M Jeffords
  
• Beware Patriotism When It Seeks to Take Away Rights
• The notorious "smoking" bin Laden video: proof of what?
• Enron's India Disaster
• What's Wrong with this Picture?

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