Play Enron Connect-the-Dot

Dot One:

The Snohomish County Public Utility District released more transcripts of taped conversations by Enron energy traders.

A choice excerpt:

On their hopes that George W. Bush would be elected president.

MATT: Tell you what -- you heard this here first: When Bush wins -- --

TOM: Caps are gone.

MATT: That [expletive] (energy secretary) Bill Richardson, he's [expletive] gone. ...

TOM: Yeah.

MATT: Ken Lay's going to be secretary of energy...

Dot Two:

Feb. 22: Lay and other Enron company officials meet with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

May 17: Cheney's energy task force issues its report endorsing many, but not all, proposals favored by Enron. Later, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, says 18 of the specific points in the plan were proposed or endorsed by Enron executives.

Dot Three:

Bush said in passing today that we "should have passed that energy bill". In fact, just today, the House passed one almost just like it.