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OK, this does not piss me off enough to vote ABBA. Not by itself. By itself it's just another instance of justice moving slowly and, one hopes, surely. While I think Ken Lay is probably liable for most everything he owns, I know I would want every benefit of the law before I were deprived of my assets. Extending the same to him is nothing more than self interest. That Bush (or Arnold or Carl Rove or Dick Cheney) may have something to do with slowing down the process of justicee even further is not such a big deal. By itself.
Taken as part of a pattern of behavior on the part of the current administration of extending privilege (privi = private, lege = law) to wealthy friends, this would be almost enough to make me vote for anyone else but Bush. If there were anything else wrong with this administration, I would most certainly have to vote against.
Well, let's see, they're racist (U. Michigan friend of court brief against what seemed to me to be the most fair and balanced affirmative action plan ever), they're power mad (USA Patriot act. Yes, I am pissed off at the Democratic congressmen who voted for it too), they're dishonest (campaign promise to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions reneged on after election), they're corrupt (or they never would have gotten past Florida), shortsighted (current Forest use act, consistent opposition to environmental regulation), incompetent (how else does one go from surpluses as far as the eye can see to the largest deficits in history), and hobbled by delusional religious convictions (global gag order on abortion, effective halting of stem cell research).
That all taken together with Ken Lay and a pattern of misbehavior, malfeasance, and high crimes and misdemeanors that will never be recognized by a republican congress, and I would vote for Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, or even Joe Leiberman before Bush.
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