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"Rod & BJ" <soggy@pacifier.com> wrote in message
news:ukbh5417eqb953@corp.supernews.com...
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> "Robert S"
> > Not to say that corporate malfeasance never existed before Pitt and
Bush,
> > but it certainly exploded during their tenure.
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> Coming to light and being corrected is functionally not the same as
> "exploded".....None of the corporate scandals involve some new behavior
> unique to the duration of the Bush administration.... in fact the cooked
> books all happened or began under the previous administration.
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"I'm sure that some of the people in Congress that stopped a lot of the
reforms I tried to put through are probably rethinking that now," Mr.
Clinton told reporters.

"Arthur Levitt, my Securities and Exchange commissioner, tried to stop the
Enron accounting issues � using the same accounting company being consultant
and accountant � and the Republicans stopped it." Later, Mr. Clinton added
that Republicans had fought Mr. Levitt's effort, "and Harvey Pitt was the
leader trying to stop us from ending those kind of abuses. That is a matter
of record." Mr. Pitt, who was a securities lawyer before being appointed by
President Bush to head the S.E.C., counted accounting firms, including
Arthur Andersen, among his clients.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/business/25CLIN.html?ex=1028174400&en=dd3
45505ee415167&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1>

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:  "These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them they
go straight to blame. Now, you know, I didn't blame his father for Somalia.
... I didn't do that. And I think that's not a real mark of leadership and
it's the wrong thing to do.  But in this case, it's factually wrong."

Former President Clinton says it's the Republicans who blocked his attempts
to clean up corporate America and now he's criticizing President Bush for
appointing Pitt.
http://www.wjla.com/news/showstory.hrb?f=n&s=51069&f1=loc
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While members of the DLC, formed in the 1980s to elect moderates and fight
the party's "tax-and-spend" image, debated strategies for supporting
business while holding corporations accountable, speakers said Bush and the
Republicans had fumbled their chance.

"They had to be dragged kicking and screaming to support the real reforms in
corporate accountability," said Lieberman, a former DLC chairman and
Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000. "And while they fiddled over
the last half-year, the savings and security of tens of millions of American
families burned."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=10&u=/nm/200
20729/ts_nm/politics_democrats_dc_3>