Have you noticed any similarity between how quickly Enron & Bushco unraveled?

[Bucky]

They're all about game, all about keeping that poker face going, even while all the supports and safeguards around them crumble and shake. The unifying characteristic of these ego-driven conservatives isn't how Christian they act or how many millions they have or how corrupt they are. What really shows their parallels is how shallow they are. Up to the very end of their looting sprees, they continue to assure the people they're screwing how moral, how sanctimonious, how respectable, and how competant they are. You could shave a monkey and put it in a Brooks Brothers suit and get the same quality of management (altho to be fair the monkey can never be trained to say "nucular").

When sturdy buildings collapse, they fall in stages--this wing, that portico, then the chimney leaning and falling over as the foundation yields and gravity exacts its revenge. But when the false schemes of conservative confidence artists fall apart, it's like a balloon. All pretty and full and floating in bright pastel colors until it, inevitably, springs a leak. In a second it's gone, with only a quick wet fart sound sputtering it around the room in a frantic death dance. It took six years for this hollow balloon to pop itself... yet once Bush started sputtering, his whole game was up in the space of 12 weeks. Now we've got another 21 months left to live with a flaccid old balloon in the White House.

In some ways, I could almost feel sorry for him. I mean, if it weren't for all the dead people.

[whistle]

1. Birds of a feather, does BushCo have a couple of hundred billion dollars

...stashed away in off-shore bank accounts to fall back on?

[Demobrat]

2. Last I heard

it was in Paraguay.

[Fovea]

3. the monkey can never be trained to say "nucular"

Score one for the Monkey.

I feel no pity for Bushco, not a one of them.
Enron/Bushco stylee White collar crime deserves the death penalty, IMO.
How is Cheney any different than Dahmer?

[Mz Pip]

4. BushCo has unraveled?

I wish. They still have the power. They are still using it. They're policies are crap, but unraveling? I don't think so. They haven't budged an inch on troop withdrawl. Not. An. Inch.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Demobrat]

5. You think the game is up?

I hope so, but - he's still Commander In Chief, people are still dying and billions are still flowing to Halliburton. Some of the shutters may have fallen off the house, and the termites are chewing at the walls, but it's still standing ...

[MadMaddie]

6. Until he is Impeached and removed from office

He is a danger to the United States and the rest of the world. He is like a corned animal and he will do anything to retain his power...even if it is in his imagination.

They set themselves up for failure by their arrogance and hubris and they will deserve everything that comes their way...impeachment, jail time, possible Treason.....

[annabanana]

7. I think they misinterpreted Buckminster Fuller. .

When he said "The Media is the Message", they assumed that the factuality of the message no longer mattered.

[liberal N proud]

8. Both organizations were run by the same type of cons

The philosophies of both organizations were very similar, Some of the people in the bu%h regime were Enron people

[enid602]

9. WTC

"When sturdy buildings collapse, they fall in stages . . ." Except for the World Trade Center. Another similarity?

[Golden Raisin]

10. Last I heard Bush was still in the Oval Office,

still has his finger on THE button (and we all know how trigger happy he is to bomb the shit out of Iran and how much he bothers to get Congressional approval for his actions) and impeachment is still "off the table".