{"id":1319,"date":"2002-01-25T07:21:11","date_gmt":"2002-01-25T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2002-01-25T07:21:11","modified_gmt":"2002-01-25T12:21:11","slug":"some_interestin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/25\/some_interestin.html","title":{"rendered":"Some interesting thoughts on Enron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peggy Noonan writes about her involvement with Enron — and why the Republicans in particular have a special obligation<\/a> to make sure that those who abuse the free market system get “one big Texas whippin’.”<\/p>\n

I am a conservative, and so a Republican. I believe that conservatives and Republicans have a special responsibility, as the party that stands for free markets, to see to it that free markets work, and are not abused, gamed or finagled. Republicans and conservatives have, I believe, a special responsibility to come down hard on people who cheat their shareholders and their employees.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peggy Noonan writes about her involvement with Enron — and why the Republicans in particular have a special obligation to make sure that those who abuse the free market system…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/31\/what_big_money.html","url_meta":{"origin":1319,"position":0},"title":"What big money really buys in DC","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Jan-02 7:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article about how the affect of money and lobbying is less on what Congress does, than on what Congress fails to do. 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