Phil Brennan
Wednesday, March 13, 2002

The Marxist manipulators at the National Socialist Democrat Party (NSDP) are beginning to show signs of panic.

With the fall congressional elections a mere nine months away and their unbridled lust for total control of Capitol Hill looking as if it will go unrequited, they are grubbing around like hogs rooting for truffles, in search of an issue – any issue – that might allow them to hold on to the Senate and win them the House.

So far the search has been futile. They hoped against hope that the collapse of Enron might give them enough ammunition to ground President Bush's soaring popularity, but their hopes have been dashed thanks to the cold shoulder the Enronites got from the administration when they sought help as their company headed for bankruptcy.

Moreover, the only thing that has kept the Enron disaster from being turned on them has been the media's refusal to cover the story of the company's cozy – and profitable – relationship with the criminal conspiracy known as the Clinton administration.

As NewsMax.com has reported, Enron had a very close relationship with the Clinton White House and it paid big dividends.

• The Clinton administration coughed up more than $1 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans to Enron Corp. just when the energy giant was kicking in almost $2 million for Democrat causes.

• Enron put up $420,000 to help President Clinton push the economy-threatening Kyoto Protocols.

• According to Federal Election Commission records examined by the Washington Times, during the Clinton administration Enron gave more than $1 million to the Democrat Party, including $600,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore got contributions of $11,000 and $13,750, respectively, for their presidential campaigns.

• The Clinton administration provided about $200 million worth of insurance against political risks for nine Enron projects in such politically volatile areas as Argentina, Venezuela and the Gaza Strip, according to documents the agencies provided to the Senate Finance Committee, the Times reported.

  "These projects obviously were a tremendous benefit to Enron's operations," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking minority member of the committee, told the Times. He noted that the Reagan and Bush administrations approved not a single loan for Enron between 1985 and 1992 and provided insurance for only one Enron power project in Guatemala in 1992.

• The Clinton administration, however, made three loans between 1994 and 1998 to the now-defunct Dabhol power project in India. Ron Brown, Clinton's commerce secretary, bragged about the approval of the Dabhol loans during a trade mission to India in 1995, while Lay stood by his side.

• The Times noted that the junket was "one of 11 Clinton trade missions provided at taxpayer expense for corporate executives from Enron and other companies." Moreover, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, which sponsored the trips, also coughed up $1 million in funding to study Enron energy projects in Russia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet states.

Then there's the matter of Global Crossing, the now-bankrupt fiber optic cable empire whose head honcho let Terry McAufliffe buy his company's stock, before it was available to the public, for an investment of $100,000 that later earned him $18 million – the biggest bagatelle won by a member of the NSDP since Hillary whatshername Clinton got a $100,000 profit out of a mere $1,000 investment in cattle futures.

There's more buried in the Global Crossing muck, of course, but if you relied on the Marxist media to tell you about it you'd remain as ignorant as they want you to be.

You might hear how McAuliffe introduced his buddy, Global Crossing's Gary Winnick, to his buddy Bill Clinton, who later played golf with his new friend and picked up a million or so for his party.

Shortly after, his new friend's company got a $400 million Defense Department contract that smelled so bad it got canceled by the Bush administration.

There's a lot more, but this will do for now. What I really want to focus on is the Democrats' dilemma. Having struck out with Enron, to the dismay of such congresstwerps as Henry Waxman (a name that translates into Urdu as 'pipsqueak') the party's strategy of the moment is falling back on the old class warfare tactic.

Such is the advice now being peddled to the NSDP by a threesome of sleaze merchants composed of the serpentine James Carville; Stanley Greenberg, the husband of Rep. Rose DeLauro, NSDP-N.Y.; and one Robert Shrum. They keep issuing memos telling the NSDP how to deal with a GOP now headed by a president whose popularity ratings are without parallel in American history.

This was the same triad that was pushing the Enron-is-Bush's-Whitewater idea just a month or so ago. With that idea down the drain, they are now suggesting that the NSDP go back to its Marxist roots and go socialist to the hilt.

"Democrats are not gaining," they lamented in their most recent memo. "Democrats have not made gains on the economy or is the party willing to take on the powerful special interests."

Gosh. What to do?

The trio warns that the current NSDP leadership is both timid and unfocused and that's why they are losing public support [Daschle is timid?]. They need to get on with such old tried-and-true class warfare issues as Social Security.

"The case does not make itself," the memo noted. "Democrats have to make it. Democrats cannot run or win from a crouch. The opportunity ... is to stand up, speak out, define the Democratic purpose in large terms. ..."

Unfortunately, to "define the Democratic purpose in large terms" would be to admit their real aim is to create an authoritarian Marxist regime in Washington, with themselves in charge. And that, of course, they cannot do.

So they reach into their bag of tricks and come up with the Social Security scam, which tries to paint Republicans as enemies of senior citizens simply lusting after an opportunity to put grandma and grandpa in the poorhouse.

The NSDP, they wrote, must castigate the GOP for allegedly squandering the Social Security surplus, an accusation by which one assumes they mean spending money on such wasteful things as arming our troops for the war on terrorism.

"We accuse the Republicans of squandering the opportunity to solve our most pressing national problems – to secure Social Security and provide health care coverage during retirement."

The NSDP "should hold Republicans accountable for squandering our assets and letting down the country," they advised.

Republican pollster Dave Winston told the Washington Times that Carville & Company are "going back to the same old, tired class warfare.

"I would hope the Democrats follow this plan," Winston said. "This is a plan that will help Republicans retain their majority" in the House.

A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, told the Times the NSDPs won't get any positive results from playing the out-of-tune Social Security violin this year.

"Without constructive solutions to help America solve its problems, Democrats are being urged to resort to the tired old tactics of scaring seniors," said Ron Bonjean. "In fact, we all know the Democrats' real strategy is to recklessly increase federal spending and raise taxes on hardworking Americans."

Of course it is. That's what the National Socialist Democrat Party does for a living.

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute.

He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.

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