Oh, puh-leeze, DC. How can you take those eight words from my entire post out of context and comment on them? Why didn't you bother to respond to the rest of the post which spoke to the horror that the past eight years has been, and the completely and totally incompetent manner in which the Bush administration handled everything? Instead, you took eight words and spun quite the little fantasy about them.

Plenty of people made fortunes on those dot coms. And how would Enron impact the federal budget?

Perhaps you can explain to me how the federal budget had a "fake" surplus. It was either there, or it wasn't. And according to this chart from www.factcheck.org, it was definitely there.