Molly Ivins: Can the PR -- get the facts

[Dudley_DUright]

Hey gang! Just back from a wonderful trip to Alaska. Boy, a lot has happened since I have been out in the wilderness. Now that I am back, I am planning to return to posting my favorite editorial writers, and who better to start with than the incomparable Molly Ivins?

CBS News has acquired tapes of Enron employees boasting about how they were "f-----g over" California during the late, great "energy crisis" there.

My favorite segment in these charming conversations is the dismay at Enron when local utilities try to get the money back. "They're f------g taking all the money back from you guys?" inquires an Enronite. "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

"Yeah, Grandma Millie, man."

"Yeah, now she wants her f------g money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her a-- for f------g $250 a megawatt hour."

Grandma Millie. The nerve of her. Imagine thinking it's wrong to rig a market and overcharge by billions of dollars. But hey, no worries at Enron, because George W. Bush is about to be elected president. "It'd be great. I'd love to see Ken Lay secretary of energy."

more...

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17051

[mzmolly]

1. Thanks ... as usual good read. eom

[grytpype]

2. Remember what Duhbya said about the Cali energy crisis?

He said it proved we needed to develop new energy reserves by, um, drilling in the ANWAR.

[klyon]

3. so many things are stacking up against this administration

I can't remember them all
KL