I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Outrageous, but unfortunately, hardly surprising. Bushco made it clear early on that the mandate of the federal government was to legitimize unfair business practices and facilitate gouging of consumers. Which is why they let Microsoft off the hook in a case that had already been prosecuted and won.
Ahnold told them it was that evil Gray Davis that done it. His word was backed by the same intelligence netork that reported the chemical weapons labs in Iraq and that there Soddom buyin that nuke-ular sponge cake. So they had good reason to drop. It's not like there was any evidence of manipulation anyways.
(ENRON, cough cough).
Un-fucking-believable.
If Gray Davis has half a nut, he will drop his losing strategy and go extremely negative on Bush, Enron, and all the other energy bandits.
This is also the weekend that time and a half overtime ends.
Palast has an article I read earlier.
Oh, and those who learned their skills in the military, are affected immediately.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail...artid=267&
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THE GRINCH THAT STOLE LABOR DAY
by Greg Palast
Friday, August 29, 2003
In celebration of the working person's holiday, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has announced the Bush Administration's plan to end the 60-year-old law which requires employers to pay time-and-a-half for overtime.
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My favorite of Chao's little amendments would re-classify as "exempt professionals" anyone who learned their skill in the military. In other words, thousands of veterans will now lose overtime pay. I just can't understand why Bush didn't announce that one when he landed on the aircraft carrier.
Thank you, FERC and Judge Whaley. Your checks are in the mail. Or, technically speaking, the electronic funds are being transferred to your Swissbank accounts.
Your pal,
Ken Lay
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It's hard to imagine what indignation will finally prove egregious enough to shock the US electorate into sensibility. With a few exceptions, the parents, widows, and friends of our slain and wounded troops remain silent, reluctant to second-guess W's ill-considered invasion of Iraq.
It's as if they're willing to sacrifice their jobs, their retirement savings, and even the safety of our military in order to avoid admitting that they made a disastrous mistake when they chose W as our president.
mmmm ...
Judge Robert Whaley ruled that the FERC has exclusive authority over the issues raised in the lawsuit and that federal law bars any challenges to utility rates that a federal agency has reviewed and approved.
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how lucky can one administration get?
The Fool's mother (post 2:5
didn't raise a fool. If Davis fumbles this ball, he deserves to lose.
"If Gray Davis has half a nut, he will drop his losing strategy and go extremely negative on Bush, Enron, and all the other energy bandits."
But Gray (and the Dems in Congress) all feed at the same trough as Bush (though at the small end). You do not bite the hand that feeds you, you just want a bigger share of the slop. Consumers live to be ripped off, so get used to it.
I really think they're just trying to do as many despicable things as possible, so while we're shocked over one outrage they slip another four or five in and nobody notices.
It will take at least two terms of non-Republican governance to undo all the damage the Bush junta has done to us.
I'm with The Fool. This is hanging in front of Davis like a sign from above. It is now time to get REALLY FUCKING PISSED OFF.
Gray, here are your new talking points:
1. California is under attack from dirty corporations. We must stick together to eject these criminals and charlatans from our midst.
2. The Right is no longer simply rigging the system. The system is already rigged. Now it's time to untangle their mafia-style operation.
Well what do you want? Davis really messed up with energy in California and then he blamed Enron. It was ridiculous that anyone believed Davis.
Orwellian!
"Regulation" = "Non-regulation"
here's where the wingnuts explain that to solve the energy crisis Davis should have let rates go up 50X.
I definitely agree, the only winning strategy for Davis is to go all out on this stuff while linking it to the recall effort and Arnolds connections to Enron. He needs to hammer the hell out of the FERC for their atrocious behavior during the energy crisis and for their ongoing efforts at protecting the companies responsible, and he needs to blast Bush on the economy. Particularly usefull would be to have third parties (i.e. not Davis himself)point out the implicit hypocracy of GOPers recalling Davis while supporting Bush.
Jeez, why don't we all sit around and complain about electricity prices and market manipulations by the wealthy?.... why don't you just go out for a nice long drive instead, I hope you can find 'regular' gas where you live, 'round here a lot of stations are out...
how did THAT happen on Labor day? I wonder. Must be time to full up the coffers of BushCo again (last time this big a swing happened was during the campaign of 1999 , remember that?)
It must be time to write those re-election checks again.
Did someone mention Enron?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news/
TUE Aug 26, 03, 12:19 PM
President Bush Urges Senate to Support Retroactive 'Enron Escape'
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2003 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- "Retroactive legislation moving rapidly through Congress would make it easier for corporate wrongdoers to escape responsibility for defrauding investors, harming the environment and otherwise maximizing profits at the expense of the health and financial well-being of ordinary citizens," says Nan Aron, president of Alliance For Justice, a nonprofit corporation based in Washington, DC. "In the wake of the worst corporate scandals in fifty years, rather than acting to deter wrongdoing, Congress is poised to encourage more white collar misconduct with passage of a so-called class action reform bill which actually retroactively helps several of our most notorious corporate miscreants escape accountability."
"We call these provisions of the House bill the 'Enron Escape Clause'," Aron continued. "Unfortunately, President Bush supports all the provisions of the House passed bill and wants the Senate to take up that version rather than its own."
Senate Majority Could Follow President's Lead and Incorporate "Enron Escape Clause"
Of course, even if the Senate passes its own version (which is not retroactive), the President and such outspoken HR 1115 proponents as Representative Tom DeLay, R-Tex (whose 22nd Congressional district includes Houston, Enron's home town), could pressure House-Senate conferees to ensure the retroactive Enron escape provisions remain in the final bill.
Consider the Enron case. At present, the federal judge in Houston hearing that case has directed the parties into mediation to see if they can reach a settlement agreement. At the same time, each side in the case is preparing papers on the issue of class certification, which the judge is expected to decide this year. If this retroactive House provision were to become law, one individual defendant such as former Enron Chairman Ken Lay could stop all proceedings in the case, merely by filing an automatic appeal of the class certification decision. That would be so even if other defendants, such as banks, law firms or accountants, want to settle the case in order to put the controversy behind them and "clean the slate."
The House would also make this delaying tactic available to defendants in other pending cases of egregious fraud and abuse of investors, such as WorldCom and ImClone. Should the House provision become law, they too could be put in limbo for years.
Moreover, both the House and Senate versions of the bill would move virtually all state court class actions into federal courts. If the House version prevails in conference committee, the "Enron escape clause" could become available to countless current and future wrongdoers nationwide.
you 'fools' are right.
This is actually a chance for the Democratic Party machine to run a full on BushCo is wrong election campaign. It's a great hand they got dealt, in a way, if they play it all out pissed and outraged and with facts.
Start banging BushCo down now...
Of course it can't actually happen because the Dem's have to do it with advertising, but they have less money than the GOP, but that doesn't even matter because the Great Whurhlitzer is better, bigger, louder and free.
I wouldn't vote for President Whistle-Ass if he cut me a check for a million dollars, Anonymous.
My vote can't be bought and sold.
PT
Well what do you want? Davis really messed up with energy in California and then he blamed Enron. It was ridiculous that anyone believed Davis.
Uh, wasn't energy deregulation a Republican thingy? (Pete Wilson?)
and didn't Davis call Bush and tell him to "knock it off"? To which, the pAppointee-moron said, "You're on your own".
Sounds to me like grounds for starting our own country.
Jeez, why don't we all sit around and complain about electricity prices and market manipulations by the wealthy?.... why don't you just go out for a nice long drive instead, I hope you can find 'regular' gas where you live, 'round here a lot of stations are out...
how did THAT happen on Labor day? I wonder. Must be time to full up the coffers of BushCo again (last time this big a swing happened was during the campaign of 1999 , remember that?)
It must be time to write those re-election checks again.
WTF?!?......WTF????
oh, this is just disgusting. Bush NEEDS NEEDS to be bitch-slapped for the rest of his term. That is just a fucking slap across the dem faces.
PT
Davis, AND the state legislature, AND knee-jerk liberal advocates AND Pete Wilson AND his half-assed deregulation AND ESPECIALLY blatantly illegal market manipulation by Enron, Dynegy and other Friends of Bush-Cheney combined to ``mess up'' on energy in California. Here in California, Arnold and McClintock and the rest of the Repugs NEVER mention the energy crisis because they know a)the state GOP leadership was culpable from Day One and b)Rove and the Oil Barons in Washington won't let them bring it up.
So, all of you who are calling on Davis to ride this issue are 100% right: he should be twisting the energy crisis around Arnold's neck like the garrotte he employed so winningly in the aptly titled ``True Lies.'' Davis can climb out of bed with those thieves any time he wants to; the Repugs cannot.
What did you DO to get Bush out of office today?
That's the mantra we need to constantly ask ourselves.
Not talking. Action. What ACTION have you taken today to get the man to retire to the Lazy W Ranch where he can clear brush to his heart's content.
Shouldn't the headline be "FERC regulators personally approved by Ken Lay clear Enron of wrongdoing"?
And if there are any journalists here, could they please explain how politicians can consistantly bury news on friday? I mean doesn't this make the media look like fucking idiots? At what point would it occur to them to have a "weekend wrapup" or something to cover this stuff?
Is there a stupider CW than that the public does not consider any information to be "news" for longer than 24 hours unless it involves Kobe or Laci Peterson?
THIS WAS NOT GRAY DAVIS FAULT. THE
ROVE/CABAL HAD THIS ALL PLANNED WITH
ENRON IN ADVANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY FIGURE TO GET CALIFORNIA'S
VOTES IN 2004!! THEY PLAY DOWN AND DIRTY. I HOPE AMERICA WAKES UP SOON!
WE CAN NOT AFFORD 4 MORE YEARS OF THIS
CABAL RUNNING THE COUNTRY!!!
carole:
It WILL be Gary Davis's fault if he reaches down and grabs his ankles rather than fighting back.
When these guys were conspiring with Cheney you can bet he reassured them that there would be no unpleasantness to them.
The circle is now complete. Corp.ses buy politicians, politicians help corp.ses, get kickbacks, and when the scam goes belly-up, the little people bail it out.
How long before there's blood in the streets?
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