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What Has Bush Done With the Bad Boys? Made Recess Appointments: Scalia and Reich are an Embarrassment. One's a Payback and the Other's a Disgrace.		Archived 01/11/02 4:23pm
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ANOTHER BOMBSHELL: ANDERSEN ADMITS STAFF DESTROYED ENRON DOCUMENTS! FIGHT BACK AGAINST RUSH, ANN COULTER AND O'REILLY, SUPPORT BUZZFLASH.COM The January 11th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia The Man Who Evaded Service in Vietnam Tries to Pin Ken Lay on Ann Richards. Well, George W. Bush, You Can Run, But You Can't Hide. Maybe That Expression Sounds Familiar to You. And Hiding Behind a Woman to Boot. What a Cad! 1/11 Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. ``As Enron's negotiations with its bankers for an extension of credit neared a decision point, the president of Enron asked Undersecretary Fisher to call the banks" 1/12 "Buried in Enron's epic bankruptcy filing is a mysterious entry that illustrates the political storm brewing for the White House: economic adviser Larry Lindsey is listed as a creditor." 1/12 "But on Capitol Hill, Democrats were already beginning to ask of the president, "What did he know and when did he know it?" Subpoenas Due in Enron Probe 1/12 Treasury's Fisher felt Enron asked for help 1/12 BUZZFLASH PRESENTS The Angry Liberal - Fuel Cells: How Bush's Oil Buddies Can Cash In 1/11 D. Stephen Goddard, managing partner of Arthur Andersen's Houston Office (where the ENRON documents may have been destroyed) is a Bush "pioneer" who raised over $100,000 for the 2000 campaign 1/11 The Enron Rogues Gallery: Part I 1/12 White House: Enron Official Phoned, The "Enronomics" Scandal Deepens 1/11 Bombshell: US Attorney General removes himself in Enron case 1/11 "Ashcroft turned the investigation over to his Deputy Attorney General, Larry Thompson. However, Democrats.com has learned that Larry Thompson also has ties to Enron" 1/11 Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), in a letter to Ashcroft yesterday, complained that Lay's $25,000 gift "was many times greater than the maximum allowable contribution by individuals to federal candidates 1/11 The White House disclosed today that Enron CEO Kenneth Lay contacted both Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Don Evans last fall 1/11 GOP Gang up on Mary Frances Berry 1/11 "It is now clear the White House had knowledge that Enron was likely to collapse but did nothing to try to protect innocent employees and shareholders," Said Henry Waxman 1/11 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 "Fleischer warned Democrats against investigations into the Bush administration's dealings with Enron. "The American people are tired of partisan witch hunts and endless investigations." It's Not a Witch Hunt Ari; It's a Crime. 1/11 Your Tar And Feathers Ready? Mine Are. 1/11 More Arrests of Terrorist Suspects 1/12 Officials: Plot foiled against U.S. Navy in Singapore 1/11 Houston's U.S. Attorney's Office to Recuse Itself from Enron Investigation, but Republican Texas Attorney General, Who Received $205,000 from Enron, Thinks Its Just Fine for Him to Stay on the Case. Right, Sure. Remember "The Rule of Law." 1/11 O'Neill Confirms Daschle Does Not Propose Raising Taxes 1/11 Did Enron's Auditors Think They Had Something to Hide? 1/11 Get Ready for Two Unseemly Bush Recess Appointments. The Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Poobah Hypocrites Went Wild When Clinton Made a Recess Appointment. But that's What Makes Them the GHP. 1/11 Enron is not Bush's Whitewater: It will be worse 1/10 Stealth GOP Candidate Sanchez, Running as a Democrat for Texas Governor, is a Bush "Pioneer" Donor, Just Like Enron 1/11 Judge declines to freeze profits of Enron officers, But leaves door open 1/11 Janet Reno Gains in Fundraising Race 1/11 More on the Willful Destruction of Enron Documents by Andersen 1/11 BUZZFLASH HOT ITEM: Vigorous Investigation of Ashcroft by the Justice Department? Don't Count on It. Ashcroft Received $50,000 in Campaign Contributions from Enron in His Failed Senate Bid, And There's More... 1/10 Amtrak could lose tracks and stations 1/12 The U.S. Government Has Finally Stopped Trying to Convince Everyone that the Shoe Bomber Acted Alone 1/11 RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) Even the University of Texas is Locked at the Hip With Enron 1/11 Through the Carlyle Group, Papa Bush and the Bush Family Stand to Make Big Money off of Arms Build Up and Saudi Arabian Relationship 1/10 When Bernie Met Lexis 1/11 Kenny Boy 1/11 Nothing Like a Good Texas Family Values Upbringing to Raise a Teen Bomber 1/11 The January 11th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Ridge: Olympics Safest Place on Globe. What About All the Pro-Bush/Ashcroft Gun Nuts Who Want to Holster up Their Guns and Bring Them to the Olympics? Just Asking, Tommy Boy. 1/11 REPOSTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE ENRON BUCK STOPS AT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE 1/11 BLAST FROM THE PAST: Overnight Guests At Governor’s Mansion Added $2.2 Million to Bush Campaign 1/11 In Florida, Blacks are Urged to Learn About Voting Rights 1/11 White House Was a Home For Enron 1/11 Blind Faith: How Deregulation and Enron's Influence Over Government Looted Billions from Americans 1/11		Following Enron's Trail 1/11 "Enron is a sordid tale of big money, big business, political legerdemain and plain old-fashioned fraud" 1/11 Laura Flanders on Why do Saudi clerics hate queers and foreigners and who knows who else?1/11 Our Wretched States, by Paul Krugman 1/11 A Right Wing Cabal 1/11 Pentagon Keeps Photographers, Camera Crews From Transmitting Images of Prisoners, Use Red Cross as An Excuse 1/11 Just Call Him "Skunk" Bush, Tries to Tie Ken Lay to Ann Richards. That's What You Get From a Guy that Evaded Service in Vietnam Through Daddy's Contacts, But Supported the War. 1/11 Ashcroft Ignores First Amendment 1/11 Saudi Arabia's Anti-American Fiction 1/11 Jeff Skilling, Let Me Count the Ways I Can Lie. Sorry, Jeff, We Can't Count That High. 1/11 THE REAL CLASS WARRIORS ARE REPUBLICANS "The president could not bring himself to admit that his $1.35-trillion, decade-long tax cut will virtually guarantee deficits for years to come." 1/11 Possible plot to kill Florida Gov. Jeb Bush under investigation 1/11 Ruling Could End Release of FEC Files 1/11 Nevada Picked for Nuclear Waste Site 1/11 White House Moves to Contain Political Damage From Enron Turmoil 1/11 PAKISTAN GETS GOP HELP, including Phil Gramm, Tom Delay, and the WSJ's John Fund 1/11 "President Bush's nomination of Otto J. Reich to be assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs has caused people here and abroad to shudder." 1/11 College grads facing debts and a plus recession 1/11 Oil, the Taliban, and the Political Balance of Central Asia 1/11 AMERICA'S SHOOTING GALLERY: Alabama Woman accused of shooting son inside his hospital psychiatric ward 1/11 Argentine crisis may hit U.S. companies' earnings 1/11 The Bush clan's family business 1/11 Activists at Bush visit protest Afghan civilian deaths 1/11 Supreme Court will decide if HMO patients are entitled to outside review of medical decisions 1/11 The Bush - Enron Archives 1/11 BuzzFlash's Democratic Gun Guy of the Day: Whose Side are You on RI State Sen. Michael J. Damiani, the Security of Your Capitol or the NRA? 1/11 ENRON AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION: JOINED AT THE HIP A Wiretap in Every Home 1/11 Gore promotes benefits of combining biotech and information technology 1/11 Setback in fight against Afghan heroin trade 1/11 Papa Bush lobbies Junior on behalf of Carlyle. Military policy towards Korea overturned. Watchdog groups decry improper influence, digging for more info. 1/11 Confessions of a 10 Percenter 1/11 Trust Names Wendy Lee Gramm The Clean Air 'Villain of the Month' 1/11 Stun Gun Will Be Marketed to Public 1/11 Regulators take aim at Alcoa's Rockdale plant 1/11 Rascally Marc Racicot 1/11 Bush under fire for nuclear 'sleight of hand' 1/11 Tax Mischief: Daschle's "political opponents shamelessly imply that he advocated tax hikes in the midst of a recession." 1/11 Prosecuting Protest? 1/11 "Don't Gut the Clean Air Act" 1/11 Political Dissent Can Bring Federal Agents to Your Door 1/12 I am betting that not a single Enron executive will spend a day in jail. Not one, not ever. 1/12 Ken who? Bush team plays defense 1/12 "It's hard to think of a fiscal argument that's been refuted as quickly and spectacularly as the one President Bush made on behalf of his tax cut last year." 1/12 Democrats hope to cast the White House as beholden to corporate fat cats once again--a perception they think was catching on before September 11. 1/12 The Bush administration urged a federal appeals court Thursday to overturn a court order blocking oil and natural gas exploration off California's central coast. 1/12 Now that Geraldo's with Fox News, the ConWeb has trouble making itself criticize the guy, even when he makes major factual blunders. 1/12 IRS Loses 2332 Computers in 3 Years; Gets To Do What It Won't Allow Us: Claim a Mistake Without Paying a Penalty For It. 1/12 Anti-Consumers Bankruptcy Bill on Backburner Because of Current Events 1/12		Compassionate Conservatism Alive and Well in Florida. Jeb is as Good at it as Georgie. 1/12 ''World policy revolves around petroleum'' 1/12 Iran's Rafsanjani Calls Bush 'Rude' for Warnings 1/12 Saudis depressed over Bush’s anti-petroleum statements 1/12 Talibanned in the USA 1/12 U.S. Alters Estimate Of Threats: Non-Missile Attacks Likelier, CIA Says. Someone, Please, Someone, Let Bush and his Missle Shield Friends Know. 1/12 Law Firm Founded by Pat Robertson Filed Federal Lawsuit Against School District For Not Allowing 2nd-Grader to Pass Out Religious Materials 1/12 Investigator for EPA sues Whitman over job 1/12 Debunking the Big-Spender Myth 1/12 FLASHBACK: Power Trader Tied to Bush Finds Washington All Ears 1/12 "Microsoft may have hurt its antitrust case by failing to reveal to a federal judge that it lobbied lawmakers." Really? So, Companies Lobby Gov't For Better Deals? Imagine That? 1/12 BUZZFLASH BREAKING NEWS: MORE ON THE BOOK THAT SAYS THE BUSH OIL INTERESTS BACKED OFF WAR ON TERRORISM PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11TH 1/9 ANOTHER ARTICLE ABOUT THE BRAVE FBI AGENT WHO BELIEVED THAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BETRAYED THE WAR ON TERROR FOR A POSSIBLE OIL PIPELINE 1/9 U.S. envoy to Afghanistan: bombing must continue to prevent ‘bin Laden Jr.’ Hmmm. Bush, Jr.'s Administration Doesn't Want A bin Laden, Jr.? That's Funny, In a Sad, Laugh-Through-Tears Sort of Way. 1/12 The PR-Driven Heritage Foundation Homeland Security Task Force Report 1/12 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Ken Lay, Enron, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 1/11 Wall Street Journal Blames Everyone but Enron for Enron's Problems. Someone Must Have Tripped And Hit Their Head on the Corner of Their Oak Desk. (req. an email address, any email address) 1/12 Another New Year's Resolution: Better Medicine, A BUZZFLASH CONTRIBUTION 1/10 Dining for Dollars with Jeb Bush in Texas (Read Down in Story) 1/10 "All in all," President Bush said of 2001, "it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." OH MY GOD, WHAT ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11TH , ANTHRAX, AND A RECESSION? FLASHBACK: How Bush Dodged Service in Vietnam 1/10 TUESDAY CNN TRANSCRIPT CHARGING BUSH ADMINISTRATION WENT SOFT ON TALIBAN PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 11th IN EXCHANGE FOR OIL PIPELINE RIGHTS, BEFORE FINAL EDIT 1/9 REPOSTED: Bin Laden Brother Gets French Book Banned in Switzerland. Book Says U.S. and Taliban Were Negotiating for Oil Pipeline. 12/31 BLAST FROM THE PAST: Oil barons court Taliban in Texas (They Courted, But Ultimately Their Was No Consummation of the Relationship) 1/10 FLASHBACK 1997: Taliban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline 1/7 Vietnam and the Bill O'Reilly Nothing But Spin Zone, A BUZZFLASH CONTRIBUTION 1/7 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Ballad of Poor Kenneth Lay 1/4 "Cleaning Evidence" is Okay for this Republican Governor. It's the GOP Double Standard at Work. 1/6 President wants Senate to hurry with new anti-terrorism law, But Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch Remain Key Obstructionists (1996) BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: EVEN MORE ON THAT GOPAC MEMO AND THE WASHINGTON TIMES ATTACK ON BUZZFLASH AND DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES 12/31 Faith in democracy is crucial, Moyers says. Bill Moyers for President! 1/6 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE U.S GERM WARFARE PROGRAM. Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. Former Political Director of Newt Gingrich's GOPAC Claims BuzzFlash is Full of "Profanity Laced Vitriol." He must Have Confused us with Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Chris Matthews, Karl Rove and Newt. We're Choir Boys and Girls at BuzzFlash.com. 12/29 "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." THE CAMPUS VOICE: Grad students go to court for the right to unionize, from the University of Pennsylvania Daily Pennsylvanian 1/10 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Rush Limbaugh Online 1/8 Was Mullah Omar, Who Allegedly Escaped on a Motorcycle, a Steve McQueen Fan? 1/8 This Article About Karl Rove and the Crew Trying to Figure Out What President Bush is Like is Laughable 1/10 THE TOP TEN CONSERVATIVE IDIOTS IS BACK! 1/7 Entire Bush Administration Recuses Self From Enron Investigation 1/12 Pitching in for a Better Tomorrow 1/8 Dubya's Dayly Diary Interviews Dick Cheney 1/9 Register Yourself as a Patriot 1/10 "Anybody Who Says My Daddy is Making a Bundle Off of Working with Saudis is a Terrorist," Bush Tells a Visiting Dignitary 1/10 Tom Tomorrow's Comprehensive Guide to the Enron Collapse 1/8 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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