WTF Is It Now?!?

'And they called Willie slick - Oil boys spin themselves into hypocritical frenzy'

From Molly Ivins' column: Pardon my rant, but I have had it with the Blame Bill Clinton First crowd. Since the day George W. Bush took office, the Clinton-haters, whose monomaniacal nastiness wasted untold amounts of everybody's time and money in the 1990s, were determined to carry their hyperbolic vendetta into this century. We are sitting here looking at a huge mess in corporate governance, and before anyone can even get out a useful suggestion, some Republican leaps up and says, "It's all Bill Clinton's fault."

It is not Bill Clinton's fault that George Bush's business career reeks. From Arbusto to Spectrum 7 to Harken Energy to the baseball deal, all of it smells—and the efforts to perfume it with spin are embarrassing. Will someone inform Ari Fleischer that after Bush unloaded his Harken stock at $4 a share, the price promptly slid to $1.25. Perhaps this will prevent more misleading statements.

Perhaps I am too cynical, but I believe there is a separate class of people in this country called Too Rich to Go to Prison. With the peerless John Ashcroft at the helm of the Justice Department, I don't think any of the now-infamous CEOs need to lose sleep over the prospect. It's not exactly like Bobby Kennedy going after Jimmy Hoffa.



Quote of the Day: "I don't have a clue as to where the Democrats are coming from and where they are going. How do they expect to win in November? Do they think people will vote for them because they were kind to GW? Hitler got the same kid gloves treatment and look what happened. Those that refused to stand up and be counted ended up standing up in lines and being counted. - rereynolds