Ken Lay--Guilty. George Bush--Guilty.

John Nichols of The Nation asks:

"Now that Kenneth Lay, the man who paid the bills for George W. Bush's political ascent, has been convicted, with Jeffrey Skilling, of multiple counts of fraud, isn't it time for President Bush to end the fraud of claiming that he was ever anything less than a political partner of Lay and the Enron team?"

Good question, no?

Photo credit: John Nichols. (Michael Lorenzini)

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