Molly Ivins: Bomb Mexico!

Naturally, when I heard President Bush is now claiming to be in the forefront of the fight against corporate crime, I thought it was an April Fools' joke. But no, there it is in print -- he made a big speech about it in Houston, of all places, not far from the Enron building.

"We had to confront corporate crimes that cost people their jobs and their savings," he said. "So we passed strong corporate reforms and made it very clear, we will not tolerate dishonesty in the boardrooms of America."

We did? We won't? Oh, he was talking about the Sarbanes bill, that set of inadequate corporate reform measures that he opposed until it passed the House of Representatives with just a handful of dissenting votes and he couldn't face the political heat any longer. That bill.

I notice a favorite quibble from the White House here -- its new explanation is that Bush didn't oppose the bill per se, he just opposed "many of its main provisions." That would be exactly the same way he opposed "many of the main provisions" in the Patients Bill of Rights Act when he was governor of Texas: He hated it so bad he never did sign it and then later claimed, "We passed the Patients Bill of Rights in Texas." I think he has a pronoun problem.

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