The Dumbest Guys in the Room

No, not Enron...Bushco.

The Enronization of the Executive Branch

There are remarkable similarities between what happened at Enron before its collapse in 2001 and what is happening now inside the executive branch as it prosecutes the legal war on terrorism. And it is only now, as the corporate fraud and conspiracy trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay begins in Houston and as we approach the start of Congressional hearings into the White House's domestic surveillance program, that the patterns have emerged with real clarity.

Brilliant analogy. Enron doesn't like the numbers in their financial reports, so they just change 'em. Bushco doesn't like the Constitution, so they just ignore it. They cobble together incoherent rationalizations for their lawbreaking and a good part of the American public buys it, just as Arthur Andersen bought into Enron's phony figures. We can only hope that we'll one day see Bush and Cheney in the dock alongside Lay and Skilling.

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