Hillary implies Bush responsible for power outage

CNN Larry King Live | 08/14/2003 | Cousin Eddie

[Cousin Eddie]

King is interviewing that expert in electricity managemnet, Gray Davis, and Hillary Clinton (by phone). She basically said that this country needs to put a priority on upgrading the power distribution backbone and the Bush administration had un-done all of the good work that had gone on in the Clinton administration under Bill Richardson. Unbelievable...blaming Bush for this crisis. She has no shame.

[DooDahhhh]

I like your character sketch! Just like a**hole told Gray Davis to act gubenitorial, Hillary is throwing anything out to see if it will stick.

[Bullish]

She's due for a good ole' fashioned Texas slap down!

[chiefqc]

Breaking news alert. "Crusty klintoon has found yet another lower level to the sewer in which she resides in. This has come as a complete surprise to everone. It was believed that the lowest level had been found some time ago by her husband (?) bent willie, the pervert, klintoon".

Stay tuned for more exciting news as it breaks.

[stanz]

Gag II

[leprechaun9]

The principal accomplishment of the Clintons (Billy & Hitlery), Richardson (the chief job hunter for Monica), and Margerine Micro Bright, was their agreement to let North Korea build a reactor for weapons use!

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/14/lkl.00.html

KING: All right, Governor Davis is with us here in the studios.

Joining us on the phone is Senator Hillary Clinton, the junior senator from the state of New York.

Where were you Senator Clinton when this happened?

SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: Larry, I was in my office in Midtown Manhattan. I was on one of the floors lower meeting with my summer interns. I have about 50 of these young people and my young staff. And we were having a meeting, talking about the work that we were doing when the lights went out and we told to evacuate the building. And at the time, we just thought it was some problem mechanically with the building that we're in, but of course when we got out onto the sidewalk, we saw that all of the buildings were letting people out, and there was a lot of crowds on the streets. And then we learned more about the full extent of this incredible outage.

And I have to say, Larry, that once again, New Yorkers were just unbelievable. Everybody was calm. They were cooperative. They just went about their business. Started to try to get themselves home. And now we're looking for answers. You know, the lights aren't back on yet, but we have been told that they will be. And I talked to Mayor Bloomberg short while ago, and, you know, nobody was hurt. Everybody got out of subways. They got out of the elevators and the skyscrapers, so thank goodness, even though it's a tremendous economic problem and inconvenience, there were no, you know, human losses at all that we're aware of.

KING: Senator with us is the governor of California, Gray Davis, the governor of New Mexico and former energy secretary, Bill Richardson, and CNN correspondent and anchor, Wolf Blitzer.

And Governor Richardson and Governor Davis have said that this kind of thing should be preventable. Do you agree?

CLINTON: Absolutely. And of course both of them have firsthand experience over the last several years. And I believe that one of questions that we should answer, because of this, is not only how did it happen, but how is it going to be prevented in the future?

There were a couple of times during the past two and a half years in the Senate when a number of us tried to vote for taking action that would increase reliability within the system to try to protect the transmission systems that move energy from one part of our country to another. To have some more backup. We've not been successful up until now, but perhaps now because perhaps we will now be.

KING: Wolf, do you have a question for the senator?

BLITZER: Senator, the people of New York have responded well so far, but I have some concerns standing here on the streets of New York. It's dark, obviously, very dark right now. A lot of people are mulling around. I have seen a lot of crowds mulling around. Clearly for some -- for some misguided New Yorkers, there almost seems to be a festive atmosphere. A lot of people drink beer and other spirits up if you will.

Have New York law enforcement authorities done everything necessary to make sure it doesn't get ugly in parts of New York City tonight?

I'm especially referring to god forbid the possibility of looting or worse?

CLINTON: Well, Wolf, you know, we've got the best police force in the world, with all due respect to everybody else's, in New York City. And I know having heard the mayor and talked with him personally myself, my staff has been in contact with a number of the officials in the city that they have gone into one of their emergency planning modes. They are very well aware of what could happen. But up until now, Wolf, none of that has happened, and obviously the best way to prevent something is to be prepared. But the people that I saw, as I stood on that street and then worked my way out of the city to get to my home in Westchester County, you know, they were outside because it's too hot to be inside.

They were sitting on stoops, standing on corners, taking their kids to the park. Obviously, now that it is getting dark, we do have to be cautious and concerned. But, you know, I think that the NYPD and the city are certainly well prepared. They've had a lot of time to think through about how to handle a crisis like this, which we don't know what cause of it is, but thank goodness it's not terrorism, and they certainly have even added to their capacity since 9/11. So I'm very confident in the work of the NYPD.

KING: Governor Davis is California prepared for something like this?

DAVIS: We are a lot more prepared than three years ago. We have a lot more capacity. We have learned you can't put all of your eggs in one basket. For example I have sign a law that 20 percent of our power starting in 10 years has to come from renewable energy, hydro, solar, geo-thermal.

KING: But Billy Richardson said this could happen in Los Angeles tonight?

DAVIS: It could, but because we have so much more capacity, we're not running on a razor's edge as we used to that we have a lot of backups in place. Now the point I thought he was -- really two problems.

Do you have enough power, and then can you get it to where it is needed?

And where I thought his point was valid in California and probably rest of America are transmission lines. We now have enough power. We have brought on power for six million people plus we are conserving equivalent of another three million megawatts of power just through conservation programs. As a matter of fact, we spent $1 billion a couple years ago to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) your putting demand management programs right here at CNN. Businesses that saves power every year. But we're still dependent on the lines that get the power from where its generated to where its needed.

KING: Senator Clinton, is the federal government on top of this or not?

CLINTON: Well, Larry, I agree with Governor Davis and I know Governor Richardson is very knowledgeable about this as well, that we just haven't made the kind of national investments that we need, particularly in the transmission system. 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. 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 Secretary Richardson's leadership. And frankly to throw in a lot of roadblocks in the way of Governor 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, 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.

[oyez]

Let me say it this way: The Clintons have never done any productive work in their entire lives, period. I doubt Billy boy has ever as much ran a lawn mower. Hillery has probably hasn't turned on her stove or washed a load of clothes in fifteen years. The're too good for that sort of stuff.

[Destructor]

This sounds like a Clinton in campaign mode. Their basic strategy is to blame their opponent for anything and everything just to see what sticks.

[Notasoccermom]

Where was Bill when the power went out? Who was with Bill when the power went out? Who got stranded or caught with Bill when the power went out?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I honestly believe that someone is going to find the link that exposes the Clintons. I, 100% believe that, that person(s) is going to be a FReeper.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I wish I had more time right now, but I don't...I'll pass this by you...

Anyone think posting a thread entitled something like, "The TRUE Stories---Post all Clinton/Energy connection articles here:" would be helpful?

What do you think?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

You know what...we all know that the Clintons are capable of anything beyond evil...

Given that fact...look at how the blackout completely halted the CA Governor's race coverage, which was basically nailing shut the democrats' chances of winning little outside of Hell. They were losing in their war of attacking the war on terrorism, the President's credibility, etc... The democrats have had no where to go.

So what?

So, in creating a huge diversion in the country, which would simultaneously lift Hillary above the muck, would move the press attention from Arnold, would inconvenience NYers and other Americans and would hijack their attention for a little while toward domestic issues, namely energy, which would then remind us all of CA and all of their energy problems, and when one thinks of CA and energy the thoughts then switch over to Davis, and lo and behold, who is rising from the musk in support of Davis, but Bill Clinton and how he has the perfect plan to straighten out CA and Davis has since been counseled and advised and well, look at how messed up NYC is under this administration, etc...

Afterall, Chretien doesn't like our President and he plays golf with Bill Clinton, and Hillary's in NY...what's a little imposed discomfort now when their longterm strategies could benefit? And it's not like they haven't altered world events by bombing pharmaceutical factories, sending their funeral clothes off to the cleaners weeks in advance, etc...

[bray]

And besides more and bigger unionized gummit, what is her solutions. What did the Co-President do for it's 8 years???

Pray for GW and the Truth

[1Old Pro]

Has Hillary done ANYHING FOR New York??? Naw, she just complains and sits on her fat A*s.

[1Old Pro]

As a senator from the state that all of this originatd from, Hillary should be held solely responsible for this outage.

At LEAST someone should ask her if she has done anything substantive in New York or is she like Schumer...just proposes everything and accomplishes NOTHING.

[Xphantasos]

I've heard that she's "coming out"...

[CyberAnt]

AWESOME!! I will wait to start my attack of stations for such a great selection of x42's idiot statements regarding energy.

[CyberAnt]

"alternative energy"

You're right - even when we are willing to support such efforts, the environmentalists just find another reason why that won't work either.

The point is - THEY DON'T WANT A SOLUTION! THEY WANT THE ISSUE! If more people just understood that - they would stop appeasing these people and DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY AND NOT A BUNCH OF ENVIRONMENTAL WHACKOS!!

[CyberAnt]

Are you series - this is hugh!!