Re: quote du jour

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

I was going to say Trent Lott.  But I guess I'm too conspiratorial.  But Lott
almost certainly was behind the FERC chair Hebert's revelation about Enron/Ken
Lay's modest proposal to trade support for policy.

Gene Coyle

Jim Devine wrote:

> who said the following?
>
>  >It's not yet clear whether the Bush administration really is a government
> of, by and for big corporations to an extent not seen since Warren G.
> Harding was president, or whether it just looks that way. But the stories
> keep accumulating. Intel's chief lobbyist says that his highly
> inappropriate meetings with Karl Rove were "quite useful" to its merger
> case ? and Mr. Rove didn't even get a slap on the wrist. According to the
> outgoing chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the head of
> Enron offered to support him at the White House if he changed his policy
> positions. And it took three months ? and a sharp prod from Jake Tapper at
> Salon ? before Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill honored his promise to sell
> his Alcoa stock. As a consumer, I'm not sure I trust these people to
> protect me from the market power of giant corporations.<
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine