Sure, Enron’s Ken Lay has escaped indictment for allowing his company to steal billions from its investors and turn its employees into paupers, but after a year of investigations we did manage to nab the pretty lady for selling 4,000 shares on a tip.

Totally irrelevant fact #1: Enron and its executives were the largest single contributors to W’s gubernatorial campaign, chipping in $312,500.

Totally irrelevant fact #2: “Enron was Mr. Bush’s biggest political patron as he headed into the 2000 presidential election.” And after the election, “Enron officials contributed $10,500 to his Florida recount committee, and when the recount was ended, they donated $300,000 for the inaugural celebrations”

Totally irrelevant fact #3: Bush has admitted lying about his relationship to Enron and Ken Lay: “White House officials had more extensive contacts with Enron executives in 2001 than previously disclosed, according to a document released by the Bush administration today in response to a request for information from a Senate committee.”

The Bush Policy initiated so successfully in the “War on Terrorism” has been extended to domestic policy: Villify and Distract.

Sigh.

Here’s a page that does nothing but list articles about corporate scandals from January 2002 on.

Chip points us to a Democratic Flash on how Bush’s tax cuts work out for the rest of us.

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