Lying About Lay; Bush's Chronic Lying is Becoming his Signature
Trait
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- By Anthony Wade
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- OpEdNews.Com
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- I am starting to think lying is more than habitual with this
President and his administration. It may very well be a form of
illness. The latest is the White House denial of the closeness of
the relationship between GW Bush and “Kenny-Boy” Lay.
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- When asked about the relationship, in light of today’s
indictment, White House
press secretary Scott McClellan said:
- “It has been "quite
some time" since Bush and Lay talked with each other”
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- “He was a supporter in the past and he's someone that I would
also point out has certainly supported Democrats and Republicans in
the past"
"This president has worked to go after those wrongdoers and
directed his administration to pursue those who are dishonest in the
boardroom"
- "The president has made it
very clear that we will not tolerate dishonesty in the boardroom.
This administration worked to uncover abuses and scandals in the
corporate arena. And certainly the president's concern is with those
workers and other people who have been harmed by corporate
wrongdoing"
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- Excuse
me? Now, I don’t pretend to know when the last time George called
up “Kenny-Boy”, but if Mr. McClellan expects us to believe this
line of bovine excrement then maybe he should be reminded about the
truth. GW Bush was in business with Ken Lay as far back as 1986. He
has tried to lie about this before, like in 2002, when he tried to
make it sound as if he only knew him casually and stated that Lay
was actually a supporter of Ann Richards against Bush in 1994.
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- The
truth was that Lay had spent a great deal of time with Bush 5 years
earlier, “quality time” as described by Lay. Another quote by
Lay is "I strongly supported Bush when he ran for governor of
Texas both times." In fact, Bush sent Lay a letter in
1997 in which he referred to Lay as one of his "old
friends."
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- By the
way, the “supported Ann Richards nonsense is also a lie. In 1994,
Lay and his wife contributed $12,500 to Richards. They gave
$47,500 to Bush and Enron's political action committee gave Bush
$146,500 (the PAC gave Richards $19,500). Lay was not done yet
though, as from 1994 on, Lay and his wife gave $122,500 for the two
Bush gubernatorial campaigns; $100,000 for his inauguration;
$250,000 for the Bush I presidential library. Enron and Enron
executives gave $736,680 to Bush for his political campaigns, his
election recount, and his inauguration. Ya, I wish I had casual
acquaintances that treated me so indifferently.
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- So,
now that we have dispatched with this pathetic attempt to distance
the President from this indicted criminal, lets move onto the
remainder of the lies on behalf of Mr. Bush. Now, technically,
McClellan is correct to state that Lay did “support” both
democrats and republicans, but lets take a closer look to see the
deception. From 1989-2001, Lay and his wife contributed $796,110 to
republicans and a paltry $86,470 for democrats. Additionally, Enron
and its employees gave $3 million to Republican candidates from 1998
to 2001 and $1.1 million to Democrats. Now, lets be serious; it is
quite obvious what side of the aisle Mr. Lay is on and who is in his
pockets, no matter how much Mr. McClellan wishes it was not so.
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- The
last two comments made by McClellan are laughable at best. The Bush
administration has been a bastion of corruption in the boardroom,
and a boon for CEO waste. The only significant person tried was
Martha Stewart. We have seen dramatic abuses by such companies as
Global Crossing, World Com, Enron, Halliburton, all of which have
contributed mightily to the Bushies and their party, and none of
which have been made to pay for their corporate indiscretions, until
Lay was indicted today. I might add that it is years since the Enron
fiasco and only today is Lay indicted. No, this is another example
of this administration wanting to talk in sound bites, misdirect,
and flat out lie.
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- This
President is a liar. He has lied about tax cuts for the rich
stimulating the economy, Afghanistan, civil liberties, Iraq, WMD,
nuclear capabilities of Saddam, yellow cake in the Niger, corporate
responsibility, the deficit, the economic recovery which is jobless
and fabricated, education, the environment, arsenic levels, clear
skies for more pollution, healthy forests initiative which should be
called “no tree left behind”, energy policies decided by
campaign contributors and then classified, Halliburton and the
fleecing of America at the expense of our soldiers, health care, new
Medicare laws which only benefit the HMO companies and costs
billions more than originally sold to us, September 11th
and the non-response of NORAD-My Pet Goat-19 hijackers with 9 still
alive-and so many more distortions, tours of duty, nation building,
regime change, National Guard Service or the lack thereof, uniting
not dividing, nothing wrong with telling a US Senator to f*ck-off,
and the “war on terror” which is nothing more than a front for
the neocons and their PNAC plans. In fact, there is precious little
this President hasn’t lied about. It has become such second nature
that they expect us to continue to swallow these fabrications and
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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- Kenny-Boy
Lay is a very good friend of the President, and has been for almost
20 years. Lay has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars
directly to Bush. That money bought him access to the White House
and he was selected to serve on Cheney’s Energy Task Force. This
task force decided this country’s energy polices, which seem to be
nothing more than welfare for the very energy companies that advised
on the policy development. Then the Enron debacle collapses on this
administrations head, and now we are supposed to believe that Bush
and Lay are distant acquaintances. Sorry Scott, tell King George the
people are not buying it anymore.
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- Anthony Wade takebacktheus@gmail.com
is an independent writer from New York. Website:
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