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Warren Olney just finished interviewing senators Dianne Feinstein (D) of California and Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky on To the Point.

Feinstein wonders why, in the midst of the California energy crisis in 2001, while Enron was enjoying the attentive ear of the Bush administration, she, as the senior senator from the largest state in the Union suffering a stage three emergency, received terse denials of audience to three different requests. She wonders why Enron enjoys such access and the 34 million people of California do not. Not to mention unprecidented leaps in costs of energy to the state from year to year (if I remember correctly, $7 billion in 1999, to over $28 billion in 2000).

McConnell simply says it's important to remember that this is a corporate scandal, not a political one.

Keep that in mind, folks. Corporate payouts to politicians resulting in exclusive access and preferential policies detrimental to tens of millions of people is not politics. According to McConnell.