Re:OT: Poli-Sci 101

[RC Macaulay]

Jones wrote...   >Spin Doctors, PACs and Ambulance-chasers alike, are keeping a >close watch on unfolding events in Houston this week, as the final >results of that lying-contest may be the key to many things >relating to morality in the USA ..   Howdy Jones..   Welcome to Houston where  politics and lawyering at the courthouse outdraw the opera at Jones Hall. It has got to the point where I get the playrights mixed and the plots confused. Seems as there once was a very well run gas distribution company taken over by a guy . During the Savings and Loan ups and downs during the Reagan years a new form of  7 card poker was invented where everybody won hands down.  Looting an S&L was considered a fun sport as long as you had a fall guy to take the dive. One of our future mayors that knew how the game was played and dumped the S&L on the Gas company and the guy running the Gas company dumped on the next guy after raking in the next pot. The last guy got the donkey's tail pinned on his backside but being among other things a lawyer, knew how the game was played. It took him 12 some years battling the Feds to finally rake in the pot. You may recognize some of the poker players in the game... Ken Lay, Bob Lanier, Horwitz. Horwitz went on to greater things like Kaiser Corp and Pacific Redwoods .. Now he is running the local racetrack. How a company with the assets of Enron could lose money baffles me. You could steal the thing blind and still make money. Ken Lay is like the guy that got 7 chances to hit the floor with his hat and missed all 7. The worse punishment would be to laugh him out of town.   These guys cut their teeth in Houston and the courthouse is their stage... watch 'em walk .. if not this round , the next.   Nowhere but Texas.. Where is Sam Rayburn and Cactus Jack Garner when we need 'em?   There is one product of Houston that has always been my hero.. Jesse Jones.. Rose to greatness. Character and integrity were his attributes. Roosevelt  called him to Washington during the depression to save the nation's financial system. Read the story of this remarkable man.   Richard