Rock and Roll Part Two
I’m thinking that Gray Davis signed his own political death-warrant with his de-regulation policies.
It’s sort of the old Democratic Party dilemma. Enron gave the Democratic Party something on the order of 20 percent of its political donations — an 80-20 score is a landslide, but nonetheless… there… it is.
Some more of The voices of Enron:
#1: “You gotta think the economy is going to fucking get crushed, man. This is like a recession waiting to fucking happen.”
#2: “”This is where California breaks.”
“Yeah, it sure does man.”
#3: “What we need to do is to help in the cause of, ah, downfall of California. You guys need to pull your megawatts out of California on a daily basis.”
“They’re on the ropes today. I exported like a fucking 400 megs.”
“Wow, fuckk ’em, right!”
#4: “You want to do some fat boys or, or whatever, man, you know, take advantage of it.”
(Ah… “Fat Boy”… was that the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima or the one dropped over Nagasaki? I can never remember…)
“It’s called lies. It’s all how well you can weave these lies together, Shari, alright, so.”
“I feel like I’m being corrupted now.”
“No, this is marketing,”
Corrupted marketing, but marketing nonetheless.
#5: “If these are ever heard by a jury, they’re going get strung up.”
These are the people who own Schwarzenegger, the heir apparent to the bizarrely metamorphasizing Reagan / Bush II/ Schwarzenegger Republican legacy. Enron had merely rented Gray Davis.
So, anyway. When’s Cheney going to release the minutes of his energy policy meeting? Depending on what nefarious path you want to believe, we either had a meet and greet with Enron, Saudi Arabia, or the Taliban…
In the meantime, these Enron tapes are second only to the Nixon tapes in their schedenfruede-inducing entertainment / disgust value.