Hillary Blames Bush for Blackout

NewsMax.com ^ | Aug. 15, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

[Hugenot]

Just hours after the Northeastern power grid went down shutting off electricity for 50 million Americans, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton took to the airwaves to blame President Bush and his administration's energy policies for pushing deregulation and coddling corrupt power companies like Enron.

"I happen to think that making sure we have a reliable, affordable system of energy is a national priority - and I don't think that this administration sees it that way," Clinton told CNN's "Larry King Live."

"They have continued to try to push deregulation and privatization, and to try to undo a lot of the systems in changes that many of us thought were important and necessary that we tried to work on during the Clinton administration under [Former Energy] Secretary [Bill] Richardson's leadership."

Sen. Clinton also accused the White House of throwing "a lot of roadblocks in the way of [Calif. Gov. Gray] Davis, when he tried to clean up some of the problems that he had with the manipulation of the energy markets by Enron and others."

"So, no," she insisted, "I don't think the federal administration under this president is really focused on making sure we don't have these problems in the future."

Before Clinton phoned in her comments to the King Show, however, Gov. Richardson, now governor of New Mexico, noted that her husband had done little to address the problem during his eight years in office.

"In the Clinton administration, everybody yawned about this, [saying] oh, we don't need to do this. Oh, we don't have a crisis," he told King.

[kevkrom]

And of course, if the Administration was able to get an energy plan through Congress that would have prevented this, it would have been decried as catering to Bush's wealthy energy friends...

[Manic_Episode]

She's so full of crap.
The blackout was caused by me when I flipped that switch in my living room that never seemed to do anything, and BAM!
Sorry everyone, I'll just go put it back on now.

[EllaMinnow]

[mewzilla]

Not just Hilliary, either. There was Hilliary, Gray-out Davis, and Tubby Richardson all over the boob tube. All blaming Bush. All Toon, all the time.

[m1-lightning]

You can morph Hillary's face here!

[hchutch]

Good grief...

You know, makes me glad that I decided to stick with being a neoconservative.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Quote of the day. (^:

See tag line.

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

The Bush Administration has offered several opportunities to address this energy and hillary and her enviro-wacko friends have rebuffed those efforts.

Hillary needs to go look at herself in the mirror before shoe goes to spouting off her big fat mouth.

The enviro-wackos are at fault for this B.S. and C.F. not the Bush Administration.

I wonder how the people of New York feel about this so-called "representative" in the Senate.

This bum and carpetbagger needs to have her a** thrown out of office next year. The people of New York deserve better.

[Dante3]

Right after the blackout I heard someone joking that Hillary! will blame the Bush administration. We checkled at what we thought was a joke.

[ChewedGum]

Right after the blackout I heard someone joking that Hillary! will blame the Bush administration. We checkled at what we thought was a joke.

Every disaster is an opportunity for blame.

Gum

[hchutch]

THROUGH the set? Is that possible?

[swheats]

Hillary still doesn't recall the facts of her husband's administration.

[JesseHousman]

Hitlery doesn't need a blackout, she needs a blackeye as a result of being bitch slapped by a lesbian martial arts instructoress.

[mhking]

THROUGH the set? Is that possible?

With my arm? Anything's possible...[g]

[Brilliant]

Wasn't it Clinton who set the deregulation process in motion to begin with?

[SERE_DOC]

"Don't forget the ever faithful STFU."

Here is a bad graphic for you, Hillery at a LAGNAF party

[Sunshine Sister]

This woman has more brass than the monkey does. What a witch!

[mewzilla]

It's not just deregulation, though. Supply was deregulated, not transmission. And we still don't know if it was a transmission, a generating problem, or a combination of both. There's plenty of blame to go around, including on the state and local ends.

[HenryLeeII]

If I were in a sinking lifeboat with Hillary and Lucifer and only had one extra life jacket, the bitch would be out of luck!

[samanella]

Some one needs to cut her power off.