"Being friends with the Bush family has made my situation more difficult"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

A June 26, 2004 flashback.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123836,00.html

HOUSTON — Former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay (search) took responsibility for the company's spectacular demise but blamed any criminal acts on underlings in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times.

"I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron (search)," Lay said in his first unrestricted interview since the company declared bankruptcy amid myriad accounting scandals in December 2001. "But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal."

In an article posted on the Times' Web site Saturday, Lay also said he believes his first-name relationship with President Bush will prove to be a liability as prosecutors reportedly weigh criminal charges against the former chairman.

"If anything, being friends with the Bush family, including the president, has made my situation more difficult," Lay said, "because it's probably a tougher decision not to indict me than to indict me."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Are we supposed to feel bad for this FUCK?

Aww, poor bastard being picked on for being friends with Bush? FUCK OFF YOU THIEVING MOTHERFUCKER! I hope they send you to a federal "pound me in the ass" prison!!! (with credits to the movie "Office Space", of course)

[xocolatl]

2. Cry me a river...

:cry: :nopity:

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

3. oh, c'mon, we all know he was Ann Richards' friend first!

"I got to know Ken Lay when he was the head of the—what they call the Governor's Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor's Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken."

-- GW Bush, 1/10/02

Gee, this is astonishing! Ken Lay thinks he was actually the president's friend. Yet we know, straight from Bush himself, that he scarcely knew the fella before his gubernatorial predecessor practically FORCED Lay on him as an adviser!

[BiggJawn]

7. But that was before Kenny-Boy gave Georgie the keys to the Enron jet..

To use in his 2000 campaign.

"Ah don't know th' feller, but Ah know his jet..."

S'Yeah, Right.....

[Racenut20]

9. If you dig reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel deep in this

I bet you could find that Hillary Clinton advised Ann Richardson to appoint him. hehehehehehehehehe

The fallacy of this post is Bush having a friend.

[Sinistrous]

13. I know you were being sarcastic, but I thought this was a good place to

remind folks of the Bush/Lay correspondence.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushlay1.html

Only time will tell if bush and Lay will swing together or swing separately, but they will both go down.

[displacedtexan]

4. Isn't that statement confirming that BushCo controls the Justice Dept.?

WE know it's true, but we never expect a card-carrying member of BushCo Inc. to state it in public!

Separation of powers, my ass!

The Constitution, the United Nations, the Geneva Conventions, etc. ONLY WORK if you believe in their inherent worth.

BushCo has defecated repeatedly on every ideal we've ever dreamed of.

This Kenny Boy "Mega Me" only states the obvious, but damn!

[SEpatriot]

5. Well boo-frickety-hoo!

Yeah, he blamed it on underlings...kinda like Bush and the "intelligence failures." What a total slimeball. Everyone please repeat this mantra: Ken Lay is George W. Bush's number 1 career contributor.

http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/kenneth_lay.html

[cthrumatrix]

6. play the corrupt "trading tapes"..... and he claims ignorance?

[Solly Mack]

8. What's that noise? Is it the Waaaaa.....Waaaaaa-mbulance calling?

[carpetbagger]

10. Kenny Boy, being friends with Bush has made it all possible.

Now quit your whining and read a good book...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1DX0MGC6DXB5T/ref=cm_r8n_listmania_top_teaser_dp/002-4684548-3858445

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. I thought shrub said that they only....................

met a few times and they were not friends. LOL

[wurzel]

12. Lay's Lying. Bush never knew Lay. Just ask him!