That Bush, damn it.

After the feds destroyed the company.

Much as I hate to see this corporation get away with aiding and abetting Kennyboy Lay and the biggest scam in history (well, until the whole WMD thing), a 9-0 decision is a pretty big bitchslap for the Ashcroft Justice Department. Maybe CNN will get to Missouri Pete's Karaoke Bar and ask him for his opinion. Just as long as he doesn't sing.

Yeah, they just destroyed documents, nobody bothered to find out what was in the documents.

The Arthur Anderson accounting corporation is let off on a technicality never to face prosecution. Bush, Cheney, and "Kenny Boy" Lay's collective asses are saved, and 28,000 INNOCENT ARTHUR ANDERSON EMPLOYEES ARE OUT OF A JOB.

BUSH/CHENEY - THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL IN HISTORY.

LOL The Bush administration is corrupt because these criminal acts by Arthur Anderson happened during the Clinton administration and the Bush Justice Dept. is prosecuting them?

Where the fuck was Janet Reno you dumbass?

VISITOR 9:14 p.m.

Enron got away with destroying the pensions of tens of thousands of people who believed and invested in that corporation while its chief CEO Kenny Boy Lay was selling out his stock like a fire sale. While Lay and his fellow buddies were selling off their stock, Enron employees had a "hold" put on their ability to dump their stock also. It was Enron who, with CHENEY, helped deregulate California's energy policies, LIED ABOUT COSTS AND MANIPULATED THE MARKET and put California billions of dollars into debt. When California asked for reimbursement for Enron's CRIMES AND FRAUD, Bush/Cheney told our state (and others) to fuck off.

Lay was one of the biggest and chief donors to Bush's presidential campaign. Lay is one of the "esteemed" rich multi-millionaires belonging to Bush's "Pioneers" - the wealthiest of the wealthy of those donating to Bush.

As for your absolutely laughable and pathetic comment that the "Bush Justice Dept. is prosecuting them" -- when is Lay's trial?? It's been OVER THREE YEARS NOW - still no trial. How many big corrrupt CEO Bush buddies have seen the inside of ANY jail or courtroom under Bush's Justice Dept.? Oh wait, NEOCON VISITOR, I forgot how big bad Bushie did punish ONE bad CEO -- Martha Stewart, a DEMOCRAT donor, went to prison for "lying" about a crime that Bushie's Justice Dept. decided that she had NOT even committed! (How one can lie about a crime you weren't even charged with is beyond me.) But according to Bush - Putting Democrat donor Martha Stewart in prison was "A GOOD THING."

This is kinda funny, I do not believe a 9-0 decision has ever come out of a case like this.

Now, how did it make it that far up the tree if all 9 judges say it was wrong. You mean to tell me that all the other appeal judges viewed it the other way?

Something is not right here, and a corporation is let off the hook. No wonder Bush wants to select all of the judges he can, he can then get the decisions he wants.

Moneywar:
You're a complete asshat, like Bush has any clout over the way Ginsburgh, Souter, or Kennedy vote. You belong on the Nader impeachment blog with all of the other loons.
Alexandrite is singing for an impeachment over the Iraq war.
Of course he will have to start with the CIA.
The spooks wont take to kindly to that.

"Something is not right here"

No shit, its your mind, you process things ass backwards, you start with the conclusion you want.

MONEYWAR 9:55 p.m.

You were right in questioning how this got all the way to the Supreme Court and got 9-0 decision. If Bush controls the Supreme Court he controls everything. No corporation will EVER be held responsible for anything they do, any regulations they ignore, absolutely nothing. The Supreme Court is the court of last resort. That is why this filibuster is so important.

If Bush and the "corporate neocons" (and that is the correct term for this Administration) who now control this country are able to pack the Supreme Court with lifetime judges, kiss goodbye every single right you have as a citizen that is not "corporate friendly." All employee rights in the workplace, ability to unionize, protection from corporate takeover of your private property by eminent domain, obeying any regulation affecting health and environment, you name it and it will taken from us.

I have never felt so helpless as now in watching my country become a "corporation" run by facists. I don't know what the average American citizen can do to stop them, considering the immense amount of wealth and greed they have and are using to wield it against America to globalize and privatize everything for the obscene wealth of the very few.

Chris,
What Martha Stewart did, I would compare to jay-walking compared to the crimes of Enron and Arther Andersen.
It seems to me that the Republicans have taken such firm control of power that they can do what ever they want now, without fear of being criminally charged.
God help us, if thats true.
JeffnDenmark

Bush didn't receive bad intelligence from the intel agencies. Bush wasn't lied to by the intel agencies. Bush wasn't deceived by false intelligence from foreign intel agencies. BUSH MADE UP THE WHOLE FUCKING THING. Don't you people know what the memos say? Bush didn't care what the intelligence agency of any nation said--including our own. He made up lies to get us to war. He deliberately lied UNDER OATH to get us into his own personal war. Of course bush didn't get a blow job, but lying UNDER OATH and getting thousands killed seems pretty serious. Anyone who stands by bush after this is as treasonous and anti-American as bush. This man should be impeached for crimes far more serious than Nixon or Clinton.

I see the LIBERAL MEDIA is all over this Downing Street Memo. Can't really stop the feeding frenzy now. Oh wait---the press is conservative--I forgot for a second and went back to when the media actually was independant and not frightened of the government like it is today.

Rat Boy Robby,

I have read that report. Tell me one fact it proves. Do you know what a 'Red Herring' is, Rat Boy Bobby???

Let's play a game. Hold out both of your hands, palms up. Now put all the facts in the Downing Street memo in your left hand and defecate in your right hand. Which one fills up first Rat Boy Booobby?

Watching you neo-libs twist yourselves into a fit because of your hatred of GWB is hysterical! Can I state the ovious? Your hatred of this man makes you more blind and more stupid than you normally are.

I love this site because it is the cheapest comedy freak show you will ever find. Carry-on, neo-lib freaks!

Stop the box-itch

Box-Itch,
As usual your post is without substance, meaning, or even a hint of intelligence.

You claim that "neo-libs" are so blinded by their hatred of GWB that it makes them more stupid than they normally are. I find this rather hilarious considering most of the "neo-libs" here bring actual points to their arguments against GWB. Could it be that your so blinded by your love (possibly homosexual) for GWB that he can do no wrong in your eyes?

Give me an example of an actual point a neo-lib has made on this site? You scream about impeachment because of lies, but you offer no proof; just empty rhetoric. The real problem you have with me and my posts is that they smack you upside your empty head and make you incapable of any coherent response.

stop the box-itch

Looks like a rat, smells like a rat, walks like a rat...


the stooge

Hmmm?Incapable of coherent response? Box-Bitch,stop disassembling about us!

I will win any argument with the use of strategery.

Unbelievable. No one here has discussed this ruling accurately. Do you people read? The court did NOT find AA not-guilty, that there wasn't enough evidence to convict, or anything else you've all mentioned. Rather, they found that the jury instructions were improper. That's all, folks. The LAWYERS FUCKED UP. Not the Bush Administration, as much as it pains me to admit. Jebus people, quit jumping on the partisan bandwagon every time something goes wrong.

The result of this is that Arthur Anderson will be re-tried. Yeah, it'll cost more money--but its worth it, IMO. Even if they decide not to bother--remember, AA is no more. They're done. And it was a warning to each accounting firm to not pull any of this bullshit anymore. And laws like the Sarbanes Oxley Act make it more difficult to play games with your books while making CEO's, CFO's, etc. more accountable. So lets friggin stop this partisan bickering and move on to a topic worth discussing.

I think VISITOR is a paid by the BUSH Administration. He/She is the only one on every blog here Defending Bush like sean hannity. Hahaha.. sean hannity. hey visitor, how about registering a name you coward. you can use SeanHannity if you would like

Methinks nothing would satisfy Itchy except a confession. In his world, politicians are honest.

Ray: Only Republicans. But then again, only Republicans were chosen by God to lead this country to paradise. Yeah, I know he chose the Taliban to lead Afghanistan to paradise, but that was just practise. This time, He's pretty sure He's got the right ones.

I am amazed that this thread somehow turned into Bush controlling the Supreme Court or that Bush somehow protected AA. This is truly laughable!

B,

Thank you for pointing out what should be blatantly obvious. Your post had clout because it came from an anti-Bush guy.

YEEEHAAAAA!!! Man that's goooood news! Once my boy Georgie puts another Clarence and Antonin on that court there's no way in hell I'm doin' prison time!! And Georgie won't even have to pardon me like he promised!

Kenny Boy Lay

The misinformation, where do I begin. First, as it relates to Andersen, it was never a corporation. It was a partnership which meant that the partners capital as well as all retirements were at risk and all were wiped out.
Second, I would advise all of you go and read the actual Supreme Court opinion, it is only 12 pages long. What you will see is that the trial judge set a level of wrongdoing so low as to basically allow Andersen to be convicted with no culpability. There were documents discarded, no doubt...just like most of you discard documents every day. There was no formal investigation going on at the time the document destruction occurred. None...The issue that should upset all of you regardless of political leanings is that a sole judge was allowed to interpret the law in such a way as to allow the destruction of an entire organization with no recourse. I doubt there is even a reprimand of her actions...

Most Americans can tell you the name of every person on "Gilligan's Island". Very few can actually name the Current Congressmen and Senators from thier own state. If the corrupt and powerful took control its because complacent slack asses let them.