If it wasn't so damn sad I'd be LMAO.
Look, I'm down here in the oil patch, right? Here's a clue for you: George Bush owes the Enron people *nothing*. Marlowe is right. If Enron owns anybody, it's the Democrats with the price tag on their butts.
Yeah, he and a bunch of others in the Administration probably own some stock. A friend on another forum was cheering the California energy crisis, because he owned Enron stock, and it was making him money. He's a retired cop who has now gone into truck driving. Another clue: the whole point is that _lots_ of people own stock! In Enron! In Exxon! In a lot of companies! Stock ownership -- it's not just for fatcats any more!
Bush, like most Republicans, tends to tilt toward the corporations. There are lots of bad things to say about that, some of them justified -- but at bottom, a corporation is just a way for people to get together and cooperate. How come the Defenders of Truth And Justice, a.k.a. the Guys who Really Won the Last Election, haven't generated some laws to see to it that that cooperation is done in a way that doesn't generate hardship for non-members? Because Democrats' understanding of economics is limited to "See money. Gimme some."
And the middle east nonsense currently on stage: George Bush made his [fairly modest] fortune here in the oil patch. Then, in the early Eighties, Saudi Arabia and OPEC shifted to their present strategy, which is simple: keep the price of oil just low enough to make it uneconomic for the United States to develop its own resources. It ruined a lot of people. The only Reagan-contributor fatcat I know personally is just fine, thank you; he had to trade in his LongRanger for a used JetRanger, poor fellow. Bush didn't get ruined, but he saw a very nice business vanish in '82-84; you think he's really got any soft spot for those people, or is really looking hard for foreign oil? Heh. If the ME thing was about oil, we'd be bombing the Saudi oil fields, and guys around here who used to be roughnecks, riggers, well loggers, etc. etc. would be grinning ear to ear at the prospect of giving up burger flipping for real jobs.
It ain't always as simple as it looks, folks.