C&L: Frist blames Clinton for gas prices

[Rose Siding]

Frist blames Clinton for gas prices

video at link
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/02.html#a8137
When is Frist going to stop appearing opposite Katie Couric? Remember when she hammered him back in November? Couric called him out on his idiotic 100.00 rebate plan and then forced him into blaming Clinton for our high gas prices...
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Think Progress has the transcript:

COURIC: Let me ask you about another aspect of your plan, because I know the $100 rebate is just one component, that it’s tied to another controversial proposal, which allows oil companies to drill for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. That has repeatedly failed to pass Congress. Some question the Republicans’ sincerity because they know in the view of these critics that this won’t pass.

FRIST: Let's talk about it. We passed it last month in the United States Senate. It has overwhelming - maybe you don’t support it — but it has overwhelming support. We passed it in the legislature back in 1996. President Clinton vetoed it. Unbelievable. Passed the House. Pass the Senate. And if President Clinton had not vetoed that, we would have more than a million barrels of oil coming here every single day. That’s more oil than we import from Saudi Arabia right now. It’s a matter supply and demand. Right now we would have increase supply if it had not been vetoed by President Clinton.

COURIC: I don't have a position on it.

[rodeodance]

1. any oil we have is not nationalize. It would go on the world market as far

as I know? Is that right?



...we would have more than a million barrels of oil coming here every single day.

[KAZ]

9. Uh, yep.

Idiocy beyond comprehension. What was oil back in '96, $14/bl? Right. Drillers would be flocking to the area. I've got a fist for Frist.

[ClintonTyree]

12. It would be on tankers heading for Japan or China........

we wouldn't see a drop of it. Of course the Republi-cons don't bother telling this to their rabid-right supporters. I'd like to know where Frist got that number of 1 million barrels a day as well. That's FAR more than is actually there but once you start lying it's hard to stop I guess. :eyes:

[wtmusic]

2. "Some question the Republicans’ sincerity

because they know in the view of these critics that this won’t pass" came out of Katie's mouth?

:wow:

[MercutioATC]

3. It's not a SUPPLY issue, it's a SPECULATION issue.

Supply is as high as it's been in 20 years. High oil futures are due to speculators reacting to Bush's Iran rantings.

ANWR drilling wouldn't solve speculation issues and we have all the supply we need. This is clearly a Bush issue.

[AlCzervik]

4. i wish the media would talk about that angle because that is a large

part of the problem now.

[MercutioATC]

5. Me, too...

...but they'll give airtime to somebody who claims it's Clinton's fault...

:wtf:

[Grateful for Hope]

6. Listening to this

has validated my belief that the gas prices we are experiencing right now are a direct result of BushCo putting pressure on the houses and the American public to allow the beautiful reserves in Alaska to be dessimated.

Geesh, can this be any more transparent?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. LOL!

"Couric: I don't have a position on it." :rofl: I just bet she doesn't. :eyes: I think she makes her "position" very clear, on every single payday!

[Peace Patriot]

8. The best estimate on the Alaska wildlife refuge is 10 days of oil,

I believe. As for Clinton being to blame for oil prices--let's see, we've had the Bush junta in charge of the country now for five and half l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong years, with a Bush "pod people" majority in Congress stopping everything the Democrats want to do, even denying them subpoena power and committee meeting rooms, for ALL of that time, Bush operatives in the EPA purging scientists and ripping up our laws, Bush in the White House tearing up the Kyoto Treaty (not to mention the Geneva Conventions), a Secretary of Defense who couldn't keep order in Iraq--and didn't even want to--a Secretary of State straight from the Chevron Board Room, and Texas oil/energy conglomerates basically running the country, sending our young to Iraq as cannon fodder in the oil wars, and robbing us blind here at home--and it's CLINTON's fault they we are being ripped off at $3-4/gal?

The hope I see in this UNBELIEVABLE BULLSHIT is that Frist is truly desperate for someone to blame--when he picks on one of the most popular presidents in American history, so popular that three years of an out-of-control Inquisition into his personal life gave him 60% approval ratings. That's a pretty desperate as well as STUPID move.

[ComerPerro]

10. Clinton always managed to keep it just around $1, no problem

And it never regularly started going over $2 until last spring.

Bush was in his second term...


These "blame Clinton first" idiots are just pathetic...

[redqueen]

11. He's insane, and she did not grill him at all.

She allowed him to spew that "demand is increasing" line of bull unquestioned... if it were due to demand the oil co's costs would increase along with everyone elses, so their margins would stay flat.

Sorry... she's still a shill.