Molly Ivins dings another one out of the park. Via Chicago Tribune:

I'm not attempting to make this a partisan deal--only 73 percent of Enron's political donations went to Republicans. But I'll be damned if Enron's No. 1 show-pony politician, George W. Bush, should be allowed to walk away from this. Ken Lay gave $139,500 to Bush over the years. He chipped in $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural Fund in 2000 and $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney Recount Fund. [snip] Until January 2004, Enron was Bush's top contributor.

And what did it get for its money? Ken Lay was on Bush's short list to be energy secretary. He not only almost certainly served on Cheney's energy task force, there is every indication that the task force's energy plan, the one we have been on for five years, is in fact the Enron plan.

Lay used Bush as an errand boy, calling the governor of Texas and having him phone [then-PA Gov. Tom] Ridge to vouch for the swell energy deregulation bills Enron was sponsoring in states all over the country.

It seems to me we all understand this is a systemic problem.

We need to reform the political system or we'll lose the democracy.

Her intro on the Influence of Jesus on Texas Politics is good too. Go read.