Comment Re:As a republican, I'd like to say... (Score 1, Insightful) 868
WoodstockJeff wrote:
Admittedly, there is little value in this as an examination of the facts at hand, but it does throw a spotlight on certain really crappy types of 'argument.' A few gems:
"All facts are created equal. If I state a fact, my conclusion, no matter how lame, is true."
It's always interesting to read comments about how this is a GOP problem, but it was a Republican administration that refused to grant special favours to Enron, accelerating the collapse of the house-of-cards they built
If this isn't a "GOP problem" what is? The chief executive of the current Republican administration knew Kenneth Lay well enough to have a nickname for him. Stating that the current administration didn't grand special favors to Enron is very like saying, "with the police in hot pursuit of a bank robber and in visual contact, X refused to shout out, 'Hey, come hide in my house!"
Seriously, if this isn't a GOP problem, then it must be an alien conspiracy, because anyone else you could possibly point to would have to be off-planet.
"....with the regulatory approval of a Democratic administration.
Yes, the Democratic Party was in power while Enron engaged in unbelievably rank fraud involving accounting tricks, offshore accounts and manipulation of energy supply and pricing that caused rolling brown-outs in California. Apparently, not to investigate a company whose financial reports say that it is a picture of health and fiscal sobriety constitutes regulatory approval (whatever that might be) when it is convenient to the writer.
Of course, by this reasoning, the fault might not belong to the democrats who were not alone in failing to call for an investigation of Enron's bookkeeping. They might share blame for failing to investigate Enron's claims with Kim Jong il, who was in power at the time in North Korea, and with, say, the German Christian Democratic Union which was not in power at the time but one is sure that they had their eyes on some office to be gotten at some point in the future: you will notice that their responses to Enron's claims are not more and not less than a deafening silence.
This guy could write for Rush Limbaugh.
