Posted on 07/11/2002 2:41:37 AM PDT by Liberty Belle
Next 'Vast Conspiracy' Is Headed Bush's Way
As things go in our society, President Bush and those who surround him had better get ready to do the Whitewater Walk. That is what time it is, and that is the way it is. One cannot avoid it when certain kinds of questions are raised, rightly or wrongly.
The questions at the moment have to do with whopping profit-making Bush did a decade ago when he sold his stock in Harken Energy, the dubious accounting practices Vice President Cheney employed when he was head of Halliburton Co. and the ties both men have had to disgraced executives at places like Enron. Does all this not cry out for an investigation at least as elaborate as the one former President Bill Clinton was put through over his Whitewater fiasco?
The Whitewater Walk has been called many things throughout our history. It isthe rite of casting out demons. Weusually refer to it with the term, "Throw the rascals out," based on the power of the polling booth.
No category of humanity is sealed tight against one of its own being a crook: Anybody can do some skimming; anybody can turn in false records. Trust noone. Better: Hope for the best, but beprepared for the worst. As the Catholic Church has proved, failing to keep a watchful eye can lead to heartbreaking abuses of power.
Money, of course, is a special kind of power. It makes the world go round. It influences the speed of the turning. It can slow the turning toward prosperity or put the world into the tempo of poverty after a heady boom — blues-speed.
We are in a lowdown dirty-blues speed, both at home and abroad, all due to unscrupulous spinning. Bad guys in expensive suits. There it is.
Everybody knows it.
So now the corporate marauders, these updated robber barons, are being proven to have learned nothing from the scandals of the past. And the party of business, our very own Republicans, soon will be asked not to fall on its own sword, but to use it on its own kind with the same degree of obsession as when its members tried to bring Clinton down, to get even for Watergate, to throw a Democratic rascal out. That seems inevitable now, even though Kenneth Starr turned the nation against special prosecutors.
Sen. Hillary Clinton(D-N.Y.) must be laughing her head off at the probability that Bush and Cheney will have to sit on the same hot seat that she and her Bill sat on while $70million was spent by Republicans investigating Whitewater.
One cannot imagine her failing to help orchestrate the pressing of Bush and Cheney about their connections to Enron, Harken, Halliburton and the various parts of the world of high finance through which they both amassed sizable fortunes.
When the questions begin, as they must, I hope that neither the President nor the vice president sinks to calling it part of a "vast left-wing conspiracy." The whole trouble, as they well know, began not on the left side of the street, but in the right side of a suite.
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Original Publication Date: 7/11/02
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Francis W. Porretto
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