Yesterday on talk radio, I believe that guy from San Diego filling in for Sam Sedar on The Majority Report, for that was when I was listening to that station yesterday, I heard a call complaining that the media is not telling us that Enron gave funds to both Democrats and Republicans. I’ve heard this before. I’ve probably also roiled about this before on this here blog. The host gave an unsatisfactory response on behalf of the, quote-in-quote “democracy” (to use a term that was in vogue to describe the Democratic Party at the end of the 18th century when the print media referred to the Democrats as “the Democracy” and the Republican Party as “the Republic”, perhaps just to give a certain elan to the two gilded age parties that shouldn’t really exist).

The ratio is something to the effect of 80 to 20, or 90 to 10. You give to the Democratic Party because they have some power over the proceedings. Meanwhile, the two politicians we can say are basically marinated in Enron are George W Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I was curious to check something. So I crack open The Buying of the President 2004 (the book that told me that it was okay to like Howard Dean) and turn to the section on Joseph Lieberman. Sometimes our political system can really be boiled down to the simple matter of who buys whom. It starts with Lieberman’s ties to Big Pharmaceutical Companies. Simple enough. Then it goes on to how Lieberman was compromised by Enron, though in this case via Citibank. Look it up yourself to remind yourself how Lieberman reacted at the time Enron declared Bankruptcy.

But these days we (however you want to define “we”) are trying to expunge Lieberman in a primary contest in Connecticut. That should tell you something about the relationship between the Democratic rank and file and that 10 or 20 percent of Enron funds. The odd thing about this situation is that they are then chided by various officials for kicking out a good, decent, upstanding Centrist and being too ideologically concerned.

Curious enough, that now hated instrument of the old DLC, the New Republic magazine, “gets it”, their defense of Lieberman not withstanding. Or at least they “get it” when it comes to Max Baucus.

The same call, or maybe a different call, went off about conspiracy theories concerning Kenneth Lay’s departure to Argentina. I smile profusely.

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