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The Daily Enron

By Stephen Pizzo, AlterNet
Posted on July 10, 2002, Printed on February 13, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/13562/the_daily_enron

Bush Wall Street Road Show Flops
Weak Proposals Greeted With Scorn


Mark Twain once advised "blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, does not proceed to prove it." President Bush would have done well if he had taken that sound advice yesterday, saving himself the scorn heaped on his "get-tough-on-corporate-crime" proposals today. And Republicans that cheered a federal court ruling eight years ago that allowed a sitting President to be sued in civil court are having second thoughts today. A public interest group has named Vice President Dick Cheney in a suit alleging accounting fraud during his tenure as CEO of Halliburton. » Read more at the DailyEnron.com

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