Watching John McTeleprompter give his speech last night was painful! Gawd. Not only is he an old man, but he’s got those beedy eyes and inappropriate smiles that make me think he’s on the verge of pulling out a knife and cutting people up. He’s insane! Completely insane! He is George Bush’s 3rd term whether he thinks so or not. I can tell he’s a little nervous about having to debate Barack Obama in the upcoming months. Well, he should be. Barack Obama is the exact opposite of what John McCain stands for and poor McTeleprompter will have to go on record again as to why “he’s not like Bush” but will then have to admit that he’s voted 95% in favor of Bush’s policies. Oh it’s gonna be good!
Can’t wait. 
And Hillary Clinton’s speech last night? When Terry McAuliffe introduced her as the next president of the United States I remembered it was the month of June and what Hillary had said three times this year: RFK WAS ASSASSINATED IN JUNE, SO DON’T ANYONE GIVE UP! I WILL BE THE NOMINEE! JUST BE PATIENT.
Spit.
She didn’t concede, but that’s because she’s a TYPICAL CLINTON who thinks she’s entitled to whatever she wants and she will not let a black man get in her way! Well, I’ve got knews for her….as president she would divide our country and as Barack’s VP, she would do the same thing. She is not loved by most people of our great country.
Hillary Clinton did not concede last night. She’s a devious woman and the fact she wants to meet with Obama personally makes me think someone had better frisk her real good before letting her into the room! Jees. She is EXACTLY the kind of person I do not want running this nation. Same goes for Johnny McTeleprompter. These two are on the same page no matter how hard they try to say they’re not. Both would love to be opposite of each other because they can coddle each other, whereas, Obama makes them have to defend their positions which makes them very uneasy!
Don’t be surprised if Hillary shows up at the convention in Colorado asking for a Citizen’s Arrest of Barack Obama because she feels her nomination was stolen from her! Trust me on this. She will do anything to protect her record, her husband’s record, George Bush, and George H.W. Bush. They’re family and just like the Mafia…..THEY WILL GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO PROTECT EACH OTHER!
I think the Hillary supporters who will be voting for John McTeleprompter should switch to the republic party, because thanks to Barack Obama we don’t need them in the Democratic party, because everyday there are more people becoming Democrats JUST TO SUPPORT HIM! And I know this…
….because last night I did some phonebanking with my local Democrats. Our goal last night was to reach out to Unaffiliated voters to see where they are right now in their decision making. Well, Barack Obama came up a lot and a couple men told me they had been lifelong republicans and have FINALLY HAD IT with their party. They’re supporting Barack and have switched to the Democratic Party! Loooooooooooooooooving it.
And another thing? Most of the people I spoke with talked about the price of gas AND WERE NOT BLAMING THE DEMOCRATS FOR IT. Remember that! Americans are not stupid, though, Hillary Clinton, Johnny McTeleprompter, George Bush, Karl Rove and others are hoping you are. Hell, even the ROM (republican owned media) hopes you’ll be easy to fool as the Bush supporters have been all these years!
Thank you Barack Obama! You’ve energized our country in a POSITIVE DIRECTION and we are all looking forward to taking the ride with you!
Here’s part of Barack Obama’s speech from last night. Can you say ‘goosebumps’? Wow!
The crowd was large in number, loud, fierce, and completely energized during this most historic moment! My son was in bed and I kept yelling for him to come witness this unbelievable moment with me, but as most 14 year olds are, he was more interested in getting some sleep. What the heck! Who cares if it’s a school night for crying out loud! LOL 
This is a victorious moment in our history. Crying re. your post … After 8 years of white supremacy in the US. It’s time for a change. The only group I can remember, other than peace activists, to speak out against the Iraq war was Tavis Smiley’s yearly meeting with black leaders.(I’m sure I am being naive) They were all against it. Spain turned out in the streets as a country against the war. . They remember persecution! Recognized the war for oil early on for what it was. Do we have to learn from personal experience as a country? If so…got it. If you think bush would be fun to have a beer with at a barbecue.WE’RE GOING FOR SMART THIS TIME.
It’s insane but Hillary at the moment is more dangerous to Obama’s campaign the that senile old man ever will be.
McSame could give sominex a good run for the money, at times makes Bush both look somewhat coherent and slightly knowledgeable ….. and that ain’t easy.
Obama just needs to keep what he is doing and allow Hillary to spin out of control, until the vast majority will see how irrelevant both the Clintons have become to both the democratic party and the countries future.
Woohoo! Go Obama!
Here’s what I said on a previous thread:
We have a ton of TRUTHS against John McTeleprompter. We need to keep Enron, George Bush, Dick Cheney, the Iraq occupation and the issue of torture at the forefront when going after McTeleprompter. It will sink him! Americans do not deserve a 3rd term of George Bush & Dick Cheney. We deserve better for crying out loud! As Obama pointed out, now is the time for us to come together as a country and turn the page of the policies of the past. Woohoo! Right on my brother!!!!! Right on.
Okay, going to work. Have a great day Molly, Clif, and everyone! I’m on Cloud 9 today.
Insane McCain also has a creepy little giggle that you could hear a couple of times during his yawn fest last night. He sounded like he was talking to a bunch of sixth graders last night with the tone of voice he used.
I wonder whether Democrats will be capable of unity now, Obama has more support nationally from Democrat voters but does he have the support of the party machine? You’ve got to wonder why there are still uncommitted super delegates and ones pledged to Hillary. Also large numbers of Democrat voters voted against Obama, even after Hillary was out of the running. They must have been anti Obama votes more than pro Hillary votes. I also think he will lose a lot of support if he lets her run as his VP – She’d probably try and stitch him up as well – she obviously hasn’t given up on the idea of running for president again in four years. I think he’s best off keeping as much distance between himself and the Clintons as he can.
I think it’s odd that HRC is so roundly bashed as a negative force in this campaign when she has brought what she considered her best issues to the fore. It might have been better if the BHO bashing had been less belittling and more topic oriented.
BHO, if he is elected as commander in chief, will need to have as much DNC and other party support as can be mustered.
Good luck!
John McCain sung like a canary and refused to leave Vietnam when released, which makes him a defector. No wonder he doens’t want his POW records and medical records released.
OT: I recently watched a energy hearing on CSPAN which included George Soros and other panelists. While my senator Amy Klobachur and Maria Cantwell were patting each other on the back for some energy bill they worked on to stop the “enron” loophole one of the panelists mentioned the bill will not stop speculators (Banks, Hedge fund holders) from artificially raising the price of oil due to the word “oil” being left out of the bill.
The panelist went on to say that it is the speculators who have driven up the price of oil and that if the “Enron” loophole bill included the word “oil” in it, we would see the price of a barrel of oil drop 25% or to $40.00 a barrel in the future.
Of course Klobachur and Cantwell looked perplexed when this panelist mentioned the flaw in their bill but said they would work on it. So it will be interesting to see if they do re-word the bill to include the word “oil” and if they don’t, why? Or if a person or people advises them against this will they expose this person/people? I guess I won’t hold my breath.
John McCain sung like a canary and refused to leave Vietnam when released, which makes him a defector. No wonder he doens’t want his POW records and medical records released.
McCains father Admiral McCain was in charge of the pacific fleet during Vietnam so is it possible that ole Johnny, the man born with a silver spoon up his ass, could have been shipped to a Naval ship during this time? I know this is conspiracy shit but I just do not like McCain and think anything is possible.
I recall my republican sister telling me during the 2004 presidential elections that John Kerry knew while in Vietnam that he would run for the senate in the future and all that he did back then was to help him in the future. So if Kerry supposedly did this for personal future gain, why not Insane McCain? I know I’m using republican logic. Sorry.
Oops…The first paragraph in my above comment was actually taken from Stephs comment.
Steph, I think many of the super delegates fear crossing the Clintons, which is why they remain undecided. As for many other democrats who are Hillary supporters. I believe all of the crap that the MSM and the Clinton campaign was done on purpose to keep voters away from Barack to ensure that if Hillary isn’t our next president, then Insane McCain will be.
there is some truth about the lady and man.
@ Fester
Could be, there is no doubt that McCain was a media celeb whilst a POW, both sides used that but the NVA grew tired of him pretty quickly.
I still can’t work out how McCain can bomb an American vessel, kill American servicemen, get captured, betray his country to the enemy, defect, then run for President as a war hero?!
@ fester
I agree but I think it could be even more cynical than that, how many superdelegates really care if Obama wins the presidency? Clinton and her inner circle don’t, and possibly quite a few Congressmen and Senators in swing States won’t. The Democrats didn’t control either house under Clinton.
This victory last night did more for my depression than anything else. I am hoping that Joe Biden becomes VP/ He was my senator when we lived in Delaware. He helped my friend get disability ss for her husband. He also happens to be a very smart honest man.
Hi Steph! Thanks for stopping by today.
John McTeleprompter’s service during the Vietnam is somewhat questionable. Of course, when you talk with him about it, he beats his chest like he’s a war hero. Oh, but when you talk to some who served with him (or to the families who had a POW over there who didn’t come home when Johnny Foo Foo McTeleprompter did) it’s a different story!
Here’s what I think went down: McTeleprompter was a considered as a negotiation tool and was treated pretty good. That’s why he got to come home. He received most of injuries when his plane was shot down and was tortured once when he was strung from the ceiling by his broken arms. Wasn’t it then that he sung like a canary? Could be! I wasn’t there, but because McTeleprompter won’t allow the documents and other stuff to be released makes me think he is faking his “heroism”.
Seems to me if you wanted to survive as McTeleprompter surely did, it was a good thing to be the son of an Admiral and VERY GOOD to be in a building of the enemy who needed you. See? Again, just a guess.
Most of the years Enron was screwing people was during the Bill Clinton presidency. Why so selective of your information? Are you afraid of facts?
1996
CFO Andrew Fastow constructs off-book entities in which Enron would make deals with these companies and then Enron would transfer its debt into those companies while at the same time, Andrew and other Senior execs, with their respective companies, would also be taking money out of those companies from the Enron transactions. [1] [2]
[edit] 1997
Andrew Fastow creates Chewco in an effort to hide debt and inflate profits but Chewco doesn’t meet requirements to keep it off Enron’s balance sheet.
[edit] 1998
Enron enters into several capital intensive ventures that turn into financial disasters including a water distribution scheme and power plants in Brazil.
[edit] 1999
Enron board of directors waive conflict of interest rules in order to allow Andrew Fastow to run private companies that do business with Enron. He creates LJM that buys poorly performing Enron assets. In reality, LJM is used to hide debt and inflate profits for Enron in order to prop up its stock price. It is believed that this is the beginning of the complex and questionable accounting practices that lead to Enron’s demise.
[edit] 2000
* March Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent annual 10-K for 1999
* March 13 Jeffrey Skilling allegedly signs fraudulent letters to Arthur Andersen LLP about 1999 financial data.
* August Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent quarterly 10-Q for second quarter 2000
* November 1 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly begins selling Enron shares.
* November Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent quarterly 10-Q for third quarter 2000
[edit] 2001
* January 8 California governor Gray Davis calls Enron and other energy companies “out-of-state profiteers” during the 2000 California energy crisis.
* January 20 The inauguration of George W. Bush is attended by Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and president Jeffrey Skilling, who each make $100,000 contributions for the event.
* January 22 Jeffrey Skilling commits securities fraud by omitting bad news and lying to investors.
* January 25 Jeffrey Skilling makes false presentation to investors.
* February 5 Enron executives get bonus checks for millions of dollars.
Arthur Andersen auditors internally question the LJM partnerships.
* February 6 Enron is named “most innovative company in America” for the sixth consecutive year by Fortune Magazine.
* February 12 Skilling is named CEO.
Arthur Andersen tells the Enron board of directors audit committee that they have no concerns.
* February 22 Lay and other Enron officials go to the White House to meet with the Dick Cheney energy task force.
* March 5 Fortune Magazine publishes article, “Is ENRON Overpriced?” written by Bethany McLean.
* March 7 Lay and other Enron officials meet with the energy task force of Vice President Dick Cheney.
* March 8 Enron lawyer Jordan Mintz sends a memorandum questioning the LJM partnerships to Enron chief risk officer Richard Buy and chief accounting officer Richard Causey.
* March 26 To cover problems in the Raptor partnerships, Enron repurchases Chewco’s investment in JEDI for $35 million, netting Enron executive Michael Kopper over $10 million.
* April 17 Enron announces a first quarter profit of $536 million.
Lay and other Enron officials meet with Vice President Dick Cheney.
* May 5 Enron’s stock price closes below $59.78, a critical point for one of the partnerships.
* May 17 The energy task force issues its report, which endorses some of Enron’s proposals.
* May 18 Chief executive of Enron Xcelerator Lou Pai sells 1.1 million Enron shares over the next 21 days.
* May 22 Jordan Mintz sends a memorandum to Jeffrey Skilling for his sign-off on LJM paperwork.
* June 6 Enron general counsel Jim Derrick sells 160,000 Enron shares over the next ten days.
* June 12 Skilling jokes about the California electricity crisis at a Las Vegas conference.
* June 21 Skilling is hit in the face with a pie during a visit to California.
* July 13 Chief executive of Enron Broadband Services Ken Rice sells 386,000 Enron shares.
* July 23 Enron’s stock price closes below $47, a critical point for the Raptor partnerships.
* July 27 Director Robert Belfer sells 100,000 Enron shares.
* August 7 Officials from a German Enron subsidiary meet with the Dick Cheney energy task force.
* August 14 Citing “personal reasons,” Skilling resigns as CEO. Lay replaces him, stating “Absolutely no accounting issue, no trading issue, no reserve issue, no previously unknown problem issues” are involved.
* August 15 Sherron Watkins, a vice president for corporate development, puts a one-page letter in Lay’s suggestion box, questioning Enron’s accounting practices.
* August 16 Lay discusses Skilling’s departure with employees.
* August 20 Watkins phones a former co-worker at Arthur Andersen about her worries.
Lay exercises 25,000 share options at $20.78 ($519,000 total value); the stock closes at $36.25. One of Lay’s lawyers states later that some of the stock was used to repay an Enron line of credit.
* August 21 Lay emails employees, stating “one of my highest priorities is to restore investor confidence in Enron. This should result in a significantly higher stock price.”
He exercises 68,620 share options at $21.56 ($1,479,477 total value); the stock closes at $36.88. One of Lay’s lawyers states later that Lay never sold the shares, which are now practically worthless.
David B. Duncan, the lead partner on the Enron account for Arthur Andersen, meets with three other AA officials to discuss the Watkins call. A memo states they “agreed to consult our firm’s legal adviser about what actions to take.”
* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an “elaborate accounting hoax,” and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron’s law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.
V&E is asked if an inquiry is necessary, but told not to bother “second-guessing the accounting advice and treatment.”
* September 17 Jeffrey Skilling sells 500,000 Enron shares.
* September 21 Director Robert Belfer sells 109,000 Enron shares.
* September 26 Lay tells employees that Enron’s accounting practices are “legal and totally appropriate,” that Enron stock is “an incredible bargain,” that he and other executives have bought Enron stock in the last two months, and that “the third quarter is looking great” in an online forum.
* October 9 Arthur Andersen hires the Davis Polk & Wardwell law firm to prepare a defense for the company.
* October 10 Enron officials discuss energy policy with staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.
* October 12 An Arthur Andersen lawyer in Chicago, Nancy Temple, emails an Andersen partner in Houston, Texas, Michael Odom, reminding him of the Andersen document retention and destruction policy. He forwards the email to a co-worker.
* October 15 Vinson & Elkins deliver a report which states that Arthur Andersen approved of Enron’s accounting procedures, and that Enron did nothing wrong.
* October 16 Enron announces a third quarter loss of $618 million.
* October 17 To correct an accounting error on the Raptor partnerships devised by CFO Andrew Fastow, Enron’s assets (shareholder equity) are reduced by $1.01 billion.
The Enron 401(k) retirement plan is frozen for administrative changes.
* October 22 Enron announces that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun an inquiry into Enron’s accounting practices with its partnerships.
The Arthur Andersen partner in charge of the Enron account, David B. Duncan tells the audit managers to comply with the Andersen document retention policy, and observes them doing so by shredding documents.
* October 23 Lay reassures investors in a conference call, asserting there was no conflict of interest with the Raptor partnerships and that the directors on the board “continue to have the highest faith and confidence” in Fastow.
David B. Duncan organizes a meeting of the Enron account group to speed up the document destruction, according to testimony by Arthur Andersen managing director Dorsey Lee Baskin Jr..
* October 24 Andrew Fastow is forced to leave Enron.
* October 25 Enron sends an email to all employees and to Arthur Andersen stating that all pertinent documents should be preserved.
* October 26 Lay makes phone call to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, about Enron.
Lay meets with Dynegy chairman Chuck Watson.
* October 28 Lay talks to Paul H. O’Neill, Secretary of the Treasury. O’Neill tells Peter Fisher, Treasury Under-secretary to look into Enron. Fisher talks with Enron president Greg Whalley repeatedly over the next few days. Whalley, according to Fisher, implies that he would like Fisher to ask Enron’s creditors to extend its credit. Fisher doesn’t.
* October 29 Lay asks Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, for help with an upcoming credit rating review by Moody’s Investors Service. Evans does nothing, and Moody’s downgrades Enron’s rating.
* October 31 Enron announces that the SEC inquiry is now a formal investigation.
* November 8 Enron announces it overstated profits by $586 million over five years.
Lay calls O’Neill again, comparing Enron to Long-Term Capital Management.
The SEC subpoenas Arthur Andersen officials.
* November 9 Dynegy announces it will acquire Enron for $9 billion.
Nancy Temple leaves a voice message for David B. Duncan ordering the preservation of all Enron documents. His assistant sends an email to other assistants to “stop the shredding”.
* November 19 Enron announces the payment of a $690 million note is nearly due as a result of the descent of its credit rating.
* November 28 Dynegy retracts its acquisition offer.
* November 29 The SEC begins investigating Arthur Andersen.
* December 2 Enron files for bankruptcy.
* December 3 Enron lays off 4,000 in Houston.
* December 12 In testimony before Congress, Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino states that Enron might have violated securities laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Enron_scandal
Oh yes, Hillary & Bill Clinton are crooks like Johnny McTeleprompter, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the whole PNAC. Thanks for pointing that out for us.
I suppose it was easier for Enron to crash and make it look like a bankruptcy when George Bush was in charge. Kenny boy faked his death and will meet up with George Bush in Dubai where all the American Domestic Terrorists go.
Here’s the first 3 George Bush scandals since 2000 (he had a ton way before that year too):
http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html
INTRODUCTION: George Bush, the Connecticut cowboy, the good old boy from Yale is a man of mediocre intelligence, little imagination, and great stubbornness and vindictiveness. He may be the Decider but his handlers have long known how to manipulate him. The key is to hook him with short, simple sells. Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice knew that once he has consulted his gut and perhaps his higher father his decision is forever. So whoever gets to him first is likely to carry the day because he doesn’t like to be challenged and is, quite simply, too lazy to change his mind. The Bubble is a natural consequence of this decision making process where logic, reason, and facts have little or no role.
….Bush’s Presidency began in the shadow of a contested and likely stolen election and promised to be unsuccessful in a largely forgettable and unremarkable way. 911 changed all that and transformed a plodding, and essentially AWOL one termer into an accidental hero. Enormous power flowed to his office but Bush had no idea how to use it. He liked to campaign, not govern. In those around him, he prized loyalty over competence and honesty. A believer in the notion of “to the victor go the spoils,” he was the perfect mark for every conniver, bumbler, bungler, hack, hanger on, and would be crony that Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and their friends could find. In the normal course of things, this would have spelled failure. Post-911, it was catastrophic.
….At this critical juncture in our history we needed an adult but got an adolescent. Instead of responsibility, we got a truant. In place of flexibility we got obduracy. In the face of great and complex challenges, we got strawmen, a black and white universe, my way or the highway, regurgitated stump speeches, and a steadfast refusal to compromise not just with opponents but with reality.
….What all this comes down to is that George Bush should never have become our President. He is not just a bad President but the worst one we could have had, the worst our country has ever seen. This is a judgment that many Americans have come to but which our political establishment and media, even after 7 years, have yet to acknowledge, accept, and act on. This is the tragedy and crime of our times.
1. Walter Reed outpatient treatment, poor living conditions, undelivered mail, lack of caseworkers to oversee and facilitate patient care for amputees, brain injured, and psychologically disabled veterans; Walter Reed is not the only military hospital about which questions have been raised; also out there the underfunding of the VA.
….The problems at Walter Reed came to the public’s attention through a series of articles by Dana Priest beginning February 18, 2007. Following them, Gen. George Weightman who ran Walter Reed for 6 months resigned March 1, followed by the forced resignation of Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey the next day. Weightman’s boss Army Surgeon General Gen. Kevin “I don’t do barracks inspections at Walter Reed” Kiley who lived across from the notorious Building 18 and who had run the hospital from 2002-2004 lasted one day as the new head of Walter Reed before he was removed. He resigned from the Army on March 12.
….One source of the difficulties at Walter Reed was the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) decision on August 25, 2005 to close Walter Reed. Planned renovations were canceled. Another was the privatizing of support services at the hospital. The workforce dropped from 350 experienced professionals to 50 who were not and the contract was given to IAP. IAP began work at Walter Reed in 2003. In 2004, IAP lobbied successfully against an Army recommendation not to privatize the workforce. The OMB reversed the Army finding and the services contract was given to IAP in January 2006 although its implementation was delayed a year. IAP is run by two former KBR executives and had a well connected board of directors as well as being owned by a powerful holding company the Cerberus hedge fund.
….However, the generally low priority given to ongoing patient care for wounded soldiers was probably the single greatest reason for the woes at Walter Reed. It bears remembering that there were problems noted as early as 2004 and certainly by 2005 and that Walter Reed is located in the nation’s capital minutes from the White House, the Congress, and the offices of major media outlets. Washington didn’t know about Walter Reed because it didn’t want to know.
2. Firing of US attorneys. Most of the country’s 93 US attorneys are usually replaced within the first 2 years of a new administration and this is what happened when Bush came into office in 2001. US attorneys are political appointees and are chosen to reflect the policy priorities of a President. Still their primary job is to uphold the law, and the law is not supposed to be partisan. Karl Rove, of course, had other ideas. He believes that government should be politicized and populated with compliant partisan hacks loyal to him and his.
….The plan was to create a list of political hires and fires of US attorneys under the direction of the White House (i.e. Rove and Harriet Miers) which Gonzales (and Bush) would then dutifully sign off on. There were two components. First, on February 7, 2006, regulations were published giving Attorney General Alberto Gonzales the power to hire and fire all non-civil service employees of the Justice Department (DOJ). On March 1, 2006, Gonzales signed an order delegating this power (subject to his nominal final approval) to two fairly junior and inexperienced staffers: Monica “Loyalty oaths” Goodling his senior counselor and liaison with the White House and his Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson. Second, sometime late in 2005 (shortly before the conference report for the Patriot Act Extension was filed on December 8, 2005), language originating at the DOJ was surreptitiously inserted into the act by Brett Tolman which allowed Gonzales to make indefinite interim US attorney appointments without Senate approval. The conference report was passed and became law on March 9, 2006. So again, the two parts were first to set up a system where Rove could control the hiring and firing of US attorneys and second to bypass the Senate confirmation process which might interfere with the first part.
….On December 7, 2006, eight US attorneys were notified that they would be fired. Most came from swing states. Most were considered not to have aggressively enough prosecuted Democrats or voter fraud cases in the run up to November 2006 elections, the idea being that such prosecutions would have helped Republicans in close elections. Worse some were investigating and had even prosecuted prominent Republicans. And then there were those partisan hacks waiting in the wings to replace them.
1. Carol Lam, Southern California, convicted Rep. Duke Cunningham and indicted the former No. 3 at the CIA Dusty Foggo.
2. H. E. Cummins III, Eastern Arkansas, had been asked to investigate the Republican Governor in the neighboring state of Missouri. He announced the investigation finished in October 2006 a month before the election but was fired anyway to make way for Timothy Griffin, an aide to Karl Rove who had been the principal opposition researcher in the Bush 2004 campaign.
3. David Iglesias, New Mexico, angered Republican Senator Pete Domenici and Representative Heather Wilson when he refused to push for indictments of Democratic officials before the election after they inappropriately contacted him.
4. Daniel Bogden, Nevada, similarly was replaced by Brett Tolman who was crucial to bypassing Senate scrutiny of these appointments.
5. Paul K. Charlton, Arizona, was investigating Republican Representative Rick Renzi for corruption.
6. John McKay, Western Washington, angered state Republicans for not creating voter fraud cases in the 2004 Governor’s race which Democrat Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes.
7. Margaret Chiara, Western Michigan. It is not clear why she was fired. She was on the Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS) of US attorneys. It may have been to make way for Russell Stoddard who had been languishing out in Guam as First Assistant Attorney after Frederick Black got demoted for investigating Abramoff’s activities in the North Marianas.
8. Kevin V. Ryan, Northern California, is the only one of the 8 who deserved to be on the list because he did run his office poorly. DOJ actually wanted to keep him on but a federal judge forced the issue and his name was added to the list.
….As they say, it is not the crime but the coverup. Gonzales has given so many different and contradictory stories about the firings that it is hard to keep up and then there is his memory. In his Senate testimony of April 19, 2007, he answered he couldn’t remember by some counts 71 times. He didn’t know who had called for such a list. He couldn’t remember having been very involved in the process. He even forgot to mention the March 1, 2006 order in his testimony. In fact, he knew very little about what were major decisions at the department he supposedly ran but, despite this, he did know there was nothing improper in any of it. Testifying in the House on May 10, 2007, his memory and his believability were little improved. Kyle Sampson too had memory problems but did contradict Gonzales’ claim that he had not been involved. For his part, Sampson described himself as just the guy that others dropped their files off to and his contribution to the process was to keep them in his desk drawer. Initially, Monica Goodling took an indefinite leave of absence, then resigned, then said she would take the 5th in any Congressional testimony. On May 23, 2007, after a grant of immunity she testified that Paul McNulty the Deputy Attorney General was more aware of events surrounding the firings (although this is far from clear), that she had crossed the line (i.e. broken the law) in asking career DOJ hires about their political affiliations, that Gonzales’ statements were inaccurate (i.e. he lied), and that Gonzales had sought to harmonize their stories (i.e. obstruct justice). Goodling, like Sampson, tried to portray herself as a bit player despite Gonzales’ extraordinary grant of authority to them both. On June 21, 2007, Paul McNulty testified before the Congress and basically stonewalled, saying that he was out of the loop, that he didn’t know who created the firing list, that there was no problem at the DOJ, and that there was no contradiction between his testimony and that of anyone else, including Monica Goodling. On July 11, 2007, Sara Taylor who left her post of White House political director in May randomly invoked Executive privilege and otherwise and like so many others had a bad memory. She did state that she had had no dealings with Bush concerning the firings. Along with her selective use of Executive privilege, this contention further undermined the claim that an Executive privilege was involved and left the possibility of a contempt citation. On July 12, 2007, former White House counsel Harriet Miers refused to appear pursuant to a House Judiciary Committee subpoena, leaving her open to contempt proceedings as well.
….From this use of Executive privilege, it is clear that the White House, and more specifically Karl Rove, was involved in the firings and was, in fact, calling the shots in this affair, and that those at Justice, including the Attorney General, were just the eager, if dim, facilitators of it.
….In addition to the Sampson and Goodling resignations, Michael Battle Director of the Executive Office for US Attorneys (EOUSA) who informed the US attorneys of their firing left the DOJ on March 16, 2007. Paul McNulty the No. 2 at the DOJ and Deputy Attorney General announced his resignation on May 14, 2007 to become effective later in the summer. Although left out of the loop on the details of the firings and giving false Congressional as a result for which he apologized, McNulty did approve the firings and through his Chief of Staff Michael Elston warned several of those fired to stay quiet about them. Elston announced his resignation on June 15, 2007. On June 22, 2007, Bill Mercer who was Acting Associate Attorney General (the No. 3 spot at the DOJ) withdrew his nomination for the permanent position. On August 27, 2007, Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation as Attorney General effective September 17, 2007.
….The DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) informed the Senate in June 2007 that it was investigating Goodling’s claim that Gonzales had tried to tamper with her testimony.
….Congress intervened and changed the relevant provision of the Patriot Act to re-instate the Senate’s role in confirming US attorneys (May 22, 2007). This was signed into law June 14, 2007. Provocatively, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continued to make interim appointments right up to the Presidential signing.
3. Plamegate. Scooter Libby Chief of Staff to the Vice President was convicted on March 6, 2007 on two counts of perjury before the Grand Jury and one count each of obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI. Placing political payback (against an individual and an agency) above national security, the Vice President’s office orchestrated the outing of a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame, her cover company Brewster Jennings, other agents which had used this same cover, and her contacts. All this was done in retaliation for an op-ed in the New York Times on July 6, 2003 written by her husband ambassador Joe Wilson. In it, he publicly debunked the “16 words” in Bush’s January 28, 2003 State of the Union which claimed that Saddam Hussein had sought to obtain uranium from Africa (Niger). This undercut the argument that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat and showed that the Bush Administration had known this was so in advance of the war. Wilson had been sent to Niger to investigate this charge in February 2002 at the request of the CIA and had reported nearly a year before its use in the SOTU that it was false. After several attempts by among others Karl Rove to pitch Plame’s identity to the media, on July 14, 2003, Valerie Plame was outed in a column by Robert Novak In his closing argument at the Libby trial, Patrick Fitzgerald detailed Cheney’s guiding hand in the conspiracy behind the outing and spoke of a “cloud” over the Vice President. That cloud remains.
….On June 5, 2007, Scooter Libby received a preliminary sentence of 30-month term in federal prison, with a 2-year term of supervised release following the completion of that sentence, a $250,000 fine, and a requirement of 400 hours of community service. This was confirmed June 14 and bail during appeal was denied. Scooter’s defense solicited letters on his behalf from Washington’s conservative elite. These praised his legal expertise and national security credentials and were likely counterproductive since they made clear he was well aware of the legal ramifications of lying to a grand jury and the security implications of outing a CIA agent. A group of conservative attorneys led by Robert Bork also filed an unsuccessful, last minute amicus brief questioning the legitimacy of Patrick Fitzgerald’s appointment as prosecutor. It called the appointment a “close” question although its rationale depended upon a lone Supreme Court dissent in a case that was not closely decided and its effect would be to prevent independent investigations of high US officials. On July 2, 2007, a three judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit unanimously denied Libby’s appeal. Hours later George Bush commuted Libby’s sentence eliminating any jail time. This is an Administration that believes it is outside the law and acts accordingly. It is not so much that they have contempt for the law. Rather they have contempt for us. The cloud that was over Cheney now covers Bush as well.
….A civil suit filed by Valerie Plame was dismissed on July 19, 2007 by judge John D. Bates who ruled that, while Plame’s complaint had merit, the court did not have jurisdiction.
….On December 10, 2007, Libby’s lawyers announced that they were dropping his appeal. This is all part of a legal strategy to stonewall and run out the clock. Since Libby had his sentence commuted rather than receiving a pardon, he could continue to assert a 5th Amendment privilege if he were summoned to give testimony before Congress. Beginning an appeal gave a patina of credence to such a contention. However, to go forward with the appeal once this point had been made would have been expensive and unnecessary. The last thing Scooter wanted was a successful appeal since this could have resulted in a retrial and another conviction, very likely after Bush had left office. At that point Scooter would have no one to commute his sentence or pardon him and he could have faced real jail time. This was not the object of the exercise.
George Bush’s resume:
Past Work Experience
* Ran for congress and lost.
* Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
* Bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
* Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
* With father’s help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments in Previous Positions
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Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
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Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
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Set record for most executions by any governor in American history.
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Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments As President
* Attacked and took over two countries.
* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
* Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
* In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
* Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
* Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
* Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
* My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the ‘poorest’ multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
* First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
* First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
* First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
* First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
* Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
* All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
* First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
* Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
* With a policy of ‘disengagement’ created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
* Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
* Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden ‘dead or alive.’
* Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
* In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
* In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
* Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References
* At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available)
* AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
* Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father’s library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
* For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Source: Kelley Kramer
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John McCain approves this message!
Facts really upset you if they counter your beliefs, dont they sweetie?
6:21pm – 6:32pm your comment. You didnt have time to read the info, just post your beliefs.
Bill Clinton:
The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates
Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
First president sued for sexual harassment.
First president accused of rape.
First First lady to come under criminal investigation
Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
First president to establish a legal defense fund.
First president to be held in contempt of court
Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
Prove Ken Lay is alive.
Barack Obamas experience:
community organizer
Illinois state legislator elected in 1996
elected to US Senate 2004
qualifications:
none
Sure less than Bush.
“At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine” So? Did he leave anyone to die like Ted Kennedy did? Al Gore’s son was DUI and in illegal possession of prescription drugs.
The subject was and is Enron. Why not defend yourself on it instead of changing the subject? Because you can’t defend what Enron did and who they screwed during the years Clinton was president. The End.
No Bob. Instead, he lied our nation into an illegal occupation of Iraq that has resulted in the needless deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Oh yeah, and he displaced 2 million Iraqis. Sound like Hitler? Yep!
Enron’s Ken Lay really loves George Bush, Dick Cheney. Any questions? Oh, and Halliburton while Enron was gearing up to pretend to go bankrupt to steal large amounts of money from investors & their employees was doing business in Iraq until 2 years ago when Dick Cheney had Halliburton pull out of the country so George Bush could continue his warmongering.
Oil Maggots stick together. Anymore questions?
Uh oh. Check this out:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0708042lay1.html
Uh oh. Here’s John McTeleprompter’s connection to Enron:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/todays_must_read_346.php
Too close for comfort.
Yikes…
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html
Even Arnold Schwartzenegger is connected to Enron. Interesting, and now he’s the Governor of California after kicking Gray Davis out in a special election?
http://www.utne.com/2003-08-01/Arnolds-Enron-Connection.aspx
And the list goes on and on! Bah hahahahahaha!
As an Obama supporter, please list out more connections of the Clintons to Enron. They’re less than the Bush Regime but will be good to have in the future. Thanks Bob!
McTeleprompter’s qualifications:
Spent 6 years living in a bamboo cage
Has a father/son complex
Spent many corrupt years in the US Senate
Owns 9 houses but yet calls everyone else an elitist
Is for torture now even though he says he spent time being tortured in Vietnam
Has anger issues
Is disliked in the US Senate because of his anger issues
Told Americans recently he don’t know shit about economics
Loves the DC dinner parties
Calls his wife a c**t
Gets medical disability from the military even though he’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars
Voted 95% of the time for George Bush’s fascist policies
Hi Kay
Five days after being captured he was giving a interview to Francois Chalais for L’Orient – he was being well treated and didn’t mention being tortured then – so I think you’re probably right.
Ref: Post #23
Yo Bob,
With reference to Obama’s lack of experience; I find it heartily refreshing myself.
When I read both yours and Kay’s laundry lists of the criminality that the Clintonistas and Bushistas have been involved with over the years; ie., lots of experience at being on the make and the take; I’d say we don’t need no stinkin’ experienced pols in the Whitehouse… : |
Carl Nemo **==
p.s. Btw thanks to both of you for publicly enumerating the sins of these two crime families; ie., the Bush’s and Clinton’s
Wow so the trolls really want to attack Barack Obama on his “lack* of experience. Well lets see, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld had lots of experience and where did that get us?
*Record Debt
*Record Trade Deficit
*Unnecessary war
*9/11
*Enron
*Allowing Energy Companies To Write Their Own Laws
*Unaccountability
*De-Regulation
*Home Mortgage Bailouts
*Loss Of Jobs
*Corporate Welfare
*Tax Cuts During A Time Of War
*Unconstitutional Laws Passed
*Record For Presidential Signing Statements
*Obstruction Of Justice
*Outing A CIA Agent
*Emboldening The Enemy
*Creating More Enemies
*Nation Building (Not Ours)
*Divided The Country
*Destroyed Our Countries Reputation
*Vote Caging
*Dismantling Of The Justice Department
*Trampling On The Constitution
*Illegal Surveillance On American Citizens
Kay, I have to make a few corrections;
McTeleprompter’s qualifications:
Spent 6 years living in a bamboo cage
Has a father/son complex
Spent many corrupt years in the US Senate
Owns 9 houses but yet calls everyone else an elitist
Is for torture now even though he says he spent time being tortured in Vietnam
Has anger issues
Is disliked in the US Senate because of his anger issues
Told Americans recently he don’t know shit about economics
Loves the DC dinner parties
Calls his wife a c**t
Gets medical disability from the military even though he’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars
Voted 95% of the time for George Bush’s fascist policies
He got a appointment to the naval academy through FAMILY connections, like Bush got an appointment to yale.
McCain graduated 894th out of 899 in his class.
He crashed two planes and flew another into power lines, IN PEACETIME.
After coming home to a devoted wife who stood by HIS side while he was a POW he divorced her for a very rich trophy wife who steals prescription medication.
KNOWN party animal both in the military and career both as a Senate liaison and during his time in the senate.
Numerous extra marital affairs, but republicans never get called on THAT by their hypocritical minions do they?
It’s funny the son and grandson of two full admirals (four stars) in the US Navy couldn’t even get ONE STAR, what does that say the US Navy really thought about his partying lack of anger management ways?
My only question is who is the real John Mccain and who is the imposter who is stumbling through his obvious flip flops?
I guess St Johnny really really can’t remember what he said before, maybe he needs to watch Utube also ……. eh?
bob Says:
June 4, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Most of the years Enron was screwing people was during the Bill Clinton presidency. Why so selective of your information? Are you afraid of facts?
Just because KNOWN republicans are criminals committing crimes NOBODY is aware of at the time why do ya blame Bill, WASN”T George W Bush the governor of the State of Texas where they committed most of their crimes at the exact same time?
And if I remember right they GAVE more money to Bush then Clinton RIGHT?
1996
CFO Andrew Fastow constructs off-book entities in which Enron would make deals with these companies and then Enron would transfer its debt into those companies while at the same time, Andrew and other Senior execs, with their respective companies, would also be taking money out of those companies from the Enron transactions.
All with Wall streets approval and people like Larry Kudlow trumpeting their “success”.
[edit] 1997
Andrew Fastow creates Chewco in an effort to hide debt and inflate profits but Chewco doesn’t meet requirements to keep it off Enron’s balance sheet.
Which is why I wonder why supposed wall street mental giants never figgered this one out, BUT instead continued to trumpet enron stock to the sheeple they were active in fleecing.
[edit] 1998
Enron enters into several capital intensive ventures that turn into financial disasters including a water distribution scheme and power plants in Brazil.
IN BRAZIL, well if I remember right bill Clinton was president of the USA, and didn’t have very much pull IN BRAZIL, unless YOU wanted him to pull a bonehead move and invade like bush did with Iraq.
[edit] 1999
Enron board of directors waive conflict of interest rules in order to allow Andrew Fastow to run private companies that do business with Enron. He creates LJM that buys poorly performing Enron assets. In reality, LJM is used to hide debt and inflate profits for Enron in order to prop up its stock price. It is believed that this is the beginning of the complex and questionable accounting practices that lead to Enron’s demise.</i.
This is Bill Clinton’s fault and NOT the directors of Enron who actually were supposed to STOP stuff like this? You know people like, Wendy Gramm, wife of Phil Gramm sitting senator of Texas at the time and who ,for now, is mccain’s senior economics advisor.
[edit] 2000
* March Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent annual 10-K for 1999
* March 13 Jeffrey Skilling allegedly signs fraudulent letters to Arthur Andersen LLP about 1999 financial data.
* August Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent quarterly 10-Q for second quarter 2000
* November 1 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly begins selling Enron shares.
* November Enron CEO Kenneth Lay allegedly files fraudulent quarterly 10-Q for third quarter 2000
And most of it wasn’t actually revealed until after the collapse because Arther Anderson helped HIDE crimes like this.
[edit] 2001
* January 8 California governor Gray Davis calls Enron and other energy companies “out-of-state profiteers†during the 2000 California energy crisis.
* January 20 The inauguration of George W. Bush is attended by Enron CEO Kenneth Lay and president Jeffrey Skilling, who each make $100,000 contributions for the event.</b.
Hint end of your dishonest attempt to pass the buck to Bill Clinton, Georgie who directly benefited from Enron’s criminal activity during his campaign by using the corporate jet of ENRON in his activities in 1999 and 2000.
* January 22 Jeffrey Skilling commits securities fraud by omitting bad news and lying to investors. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* January 25 Jeffrey Skilling makes false presentation to investors. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* February 5 Enron executives get bonus checks for millions of dollars.
Arthur Andersen auditors internally question the LJM partnerships. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* February 6 Enron is named “most innovative company in America†for the sixth consecutive year by Fortune Magazine. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* February 12 Skilling is named CEO.
Arthur Andersen tells the Enron board of directors audit committee that they have no concerns. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* February 22 Lay and other Enron officials go to the White House to meet with the Dick Cheney energy task force.
* March 5 Fortune Magazine publishes article, “Is ENRON Overpriced?†written by Bethany McLean.
* March 7 Lay and other Enron officials meet with the energy task force of Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush’s fault according to your logic son. but I would say Cheney had more culpability here right?
* March 8 Enron lawyer Jordan Mintz sends a memorandum questioning the LJM partnerships to Enron chief risk officer Richard Buy and chief accounting officer Richard Causey.
* March 26 To cover problems in the Raptor partnerships, Enron repurchases Chewco’s investment in JEDI for $35 million, netting Enron executive Michael Kopper over $10 million. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* April 17 Enron announces a first quarter profit of $536 million.
Lay and other Enron officials meet with Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
* May 5 Enron’s stock price closes below $59.78, a critical point for one of the partnerships.
* May 17 The energy task force issues its report, which endorses some of Enron’s proposals.
* May 18 Chief executive of Enron Xcelerator Lou Pai sells 1.1 million Enron shares over the next 21 days.
* May 22 Jordan Mintz sends a memorandum to Jeffrey Skilling for his sign-off on LJM paperwork.
* June 6 Enron general counsel Jim Derrick sells 160,000 Enron shares over the next ten days.
* June 12 Skilling jokes about the California electricity crisis at a Las Vegas conference.
* June 21 Skilling is hit in the face with a pie during a visit to California.
* July 13 Chief executive of Enron Broadband Services Ken Rice sells 386,000 Enron shares.
* July 23 Enron’s stock price closes below $47, a critical point for the Raptor partnerships.
* July 27 Director Robert Belfer sells 100,000 Enron shares.
* August 7 Officials from a German Enron subsidiary meet with the Dick Cheney energy task force.
* August 14 Citing “personal reasons,†Skilling resigns as CEO. Lay replaces him, stating “Absolutely no accounting issue, no trading issue, no reserve issue, no previously unknown problem issues†are involved.
* August 15 Sherron Watkins, a vice president for corporate development, puts a one-page letter in Lay’s suggestion box, questioning Enron’s accounting practices.
* August 16 Lay discusses Skilling’s departure with employees.
* August 20 Watkins phones a former co-worker at Arthur Andersen about her worries.
Lay exercises 25,000 share options at $20.78 ($519,000 total value); the stock closes at $36.25. One of Lay’s lawyers states later that some of the stock was used to repay an Enron line of credit.
* August 21 Lay emails employees, stating “one of my highest priorities is to restore investor confidence in Enron. This should result in a significantly higher stock price.â€
He exercises 68,620 share options at $21.56 ($1,479,477 total value); the stock closes at $36.88. One of Lay’s lawyers states later that Lay never sold the shares, which are now practically worthless.
David B. Duncan, the lead partner on the Enron account for Arthur Andersen, meets with three other AA officials to discuss the Watkins call. A memo states they “agreed to consult our firm’s legal adviser about what actions to take.â€
* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an “elaborate accounting hoax,†and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron’s law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.
V&E is asked if an inquiry is necessary, but told not to bother “second-guessing the accounting advice and treatment.â€
* September 17 Jeffrey Skilling sells 500,000 Enron shares.
* September 21 Director Robert Belfer sells 109,000 Enron shares.
* September 26 Lay tells employees that Enron’s accounting practices are “legal and totally appropriate,†that Enron stock is “an incredible bargain,†that he and other executives have bought Enron stock in the last two months, and that “the third quarter is looking great†in an online forum.
* October 9 Arthur Andersen hires the Davis Polk & Wardwell law firm to prepare a defense for the company.
* October 10 Enron officials discuss energy policy with staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.
* October 12 An Arthur Andersen lawyer in Chicago, Nancy Temple, emails an Andersen partner in Houston, Texas, Michael Odom, reminding him of the Andersen document retention and destruction policy. He forwards the email to a co-worker.
* October 15 Vinson & Elkins deliver a report which states that Arthur Andersen approved of Enron’s accounting procedures, and that Enron did nothing wrong.
* October 16 Enron announces a third quarter loss of $618 million.
* October 17 To correct an accounting error on the Raptor partnerships devised by CFO Andrew Fastow, Enron’s assets (shareholder equity) are reduced by $1.01 billion.
The Enron 401(k) retirement plan is frozen for administrative changes.
* October 22 Enron announces that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun an inquiry into Enron’s accounting practices with its partnerships.
The Arthur Andersen partner in charge of the Enron account, David B. Duncan tells the audit managers to comply with the Andersen document retention policy, and observes them doing so by shredding documents.
* October 23 Lay reassures investors in a conference call, asserting there was no conflict of interest with the Raptor partnerships and that the directors on the board “continue to have the highest faith and confidence†in Fastow.
David B. Duncan organizes a meeting of the Enron account group to speed up the document destruction, according to testimony by Arthur Andersen managing director Dorsey Lee Baskin Jr..
* October 24 Andrew Fastow is forced to leave Enron.
* October 25 Enron sends an email to all employees and to Arthur Andersen stating that all pertinent documents should be preserved.
* October 26 Lay makes phone call to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, about Enron.
Lay meets with Dynegy chairman Chuck Watson.
* October 28 Lay talks to Paul H. O’Neill, Secretary of the Treasury. O’Neill tells Peter Fisher, Treasury Under-secretary to look into Enron. Fisher talks with Enron president Greg Whalley repeatedly over the next few days. Whalley, according to Fisher, implies that he would like Fisher to ask Enron’s creditors to extend its credit. Fisher doesn’t.
* October 29 Lay asks Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, for help with an upcoming credit rating review by Moody’s Investors Service. Evans does nothing, and Moody’s downgrades Enron’s rating.
* October 31 Enron announces that the SEC inquiry is now a formal investigation.
* November 8 Enron announces it overstated profits by $586 million over five years.
Lay calls O’Neill again, comparing Enron to Long-Term Capital Management.
The SEC subpoenas Arthur Andersen officials.
* November 9 Dynegy announces it will acquire Enron for $9 billion.
Nancy Temple leaves a voice message for David B. Duncan ordering the preservation of all Enron documents. His assistant sends an email to other assistants to “stop the shreddingâ€.
* November 19 Enron announces the payment of a $690 million note is nearly due as a result of the descent of its credit rating.
* November 28 Dynegy retracts its acquisition offer.
* November 29 The SEC begins investigating Arthur Andersen.
* December 2 Enron files for bankruptcy.
* December 3 Enron lays off 4,000 in Houston.
* December 12 In testimony before Congress, Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino states that Enron might have violated securities laws. ALL Bush’s fault according to your logic son.
Bet ya didn’t read all of it either did ya son
Kay askinet is hungry again.
Yo Cliff and UncleFesterLurks…
Too bad Kay doesn’t own a pirate TV station broadcasting worldwide via satellite with guys like you et. al. as commentators roasting this asshole; ie., McPain 24/7/365.
Interestingly many braindead, soon to beam up “gray panthers” and AARP’rs adulate McCain the same way they do “Shillary”?
Btw, I’m an AARP member, but I don’t consider myself unresearched and braindead at least not yet. : |
In McPain’s New Orleans speech yesterday he nauseatingly tried to suckup to “Shillary’s” disenfranchised following; ie., “soccer moms”, militant women and no doubt the other aforementioned flatliners that want to sniff her butt too.
Little do they realize she and Bill are selling their butts down the river 24/7/365 for just a few bucks, euro’s, rupees or yuan more by facilitating the shipping of evermore American jobs offshore to these nations or allowing their people to come to this country on work visas…!
John McPain is an absolute “loser” to say the least and he’s one uv’em; ie., the enemy of “we the people”…!
I’ll supply my alltime favorite “duty link” concerning this guy’s lifelong modus operandi.
http://www.electricnevada.com/pages00/mccain.htm
Carl Nemo **==
Hi Kay,
I posted a scorcher concerning McPain and Shillary that should have come up as #36, but it didn’t. It seems that Clif is suffering the same problem. Thanks.
Nemo **==
Mississippi was one of the last states in the Union to take its Jim Crow laws off the books. I was born and raised in Mississippi in the last two decades of that era. The GOP is going to do an awful lot of race-baiting between now and November, you can bet. In fact, they’ve already got their media buttboys working on it, limbaugh in particular. They are going to try to illicit as much prejudice, bigotry, and fear out of the electorate as they possibly can. They’re already saying that “white guilt” is responsible for most of the white support for Obama. But, in the meantime, I just want all of you to be proud of what you’re doing. You’d be doubly proud had you lived where I lived in the time I lived there. You already know this is a monumental moment for America. Had you seen directly how far America had to go to arrive at this moment, you’d weep with pride and gratitude. Good going, America! You’re doing the right thing! You are seeing what Martin Luther King prayed for — you are judging this man not on the color of his skin but on the content of his character. He’s the best candidate and he’ll make the best president.
As for McClone, all he has to do to lose this race is to continue to open his mouth. After 8 years of bush, don’t you think America is ready for a president who can put together a complete thought and articulate it without stumbling all the hell over his own tongue. Yes, I think we are.
Up the Revolution!
Revealed: Secret Plan To Keep Iraq Under US Control. Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html
solicit
not illicit
“Bob” would be Bob Dole, would he?
Hi Uncle Fester Lurks…
Thanks for the “bases are forever” link…! All I can say its content makes even a hard man with his oars in the water, blood run icey cold.
It’s amazing, both the number and magnitude of the evil men and women that have hijacked this once great nation along with its core Constitutional principles.
Truly a stunning article and makes a statement concerning Bushco’s ongoing, in our face, political brinksmanship…!
They are like traitorous “energizer bunnies” working 24/7/365 to both financially break and put this nation in an ever weaker military position.
Carl Nemo**==
Thanks Clif, Uncle, and Carl for you comments. Seems the Knuckledraggers have gone now. Bah hahahahahaha! And Gage? Didn’t Bob Dole get his injuries after throwing a grenade and it bounced off a tree, exploded and landed near him? Bah hahahahahaha!
Right wingers just make up these “hero stories” to make themselves feel better and to look tough in front of their minions.
Awwwww, poor Johnny McTeleprompter, not many like him…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10864.html
Can you imagine this man in the White House? He’ll cause more national/international problems than George Bush & Dick Cheney did. Scary. Scary to think there’s worse out there than those two!