When they say it's not about politics   By Ernest Dumas Arkansas
Times January 25, 2002  Every good Republican, television pundit
and sympathetic commentator now is obliged to repeat the mantra:
Enron is a business scandal, not a political scandal.
Investigators are supposed to keep their focus on corporate and
accounting practices and not let the inquiries turn into a
political witch hunt.  We do not, after all, want another
weakened president trying to conduct a war against terrorism.
Remember how Republicans and the pundits howled when Bill
Clinton sent the military to get Osama bin Laden after the
attacks on American embassies and upon the instance of every
other retaliation for terrorism. He was trying to distract the
public from his troubles, they said, and he deserved no support
for it.  No one wants that to happen again and it needn't. But
Enron is nothing if it is not a political scandal, and a
government that does not examine its own role is failing its
duty. If the only lesson to be learned is that