Six Years Of GOP-Controlled Government & They Still Blame Clinton
Think Progress has both film and transcript of Katie Couric’s interview with Senator Bill Frist from Tuesday’s Today Show; here’s 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.
FRIST: Overwhelming support in this country today and we passed it in the United States Senate. [“Frist on High Gas Prices: It’s Clinton’s Fault” (Think Progress)]
O.K. So…Not only are the Republicans still blaming Clinton for everything that’s wrong in the country after six years of a Republican-controlled Congress and a Republican-controlled White House with a president who’s never vetoed anything ever, but if there’s such overwhelming support in this country for drilling in Alaska and destroying our environment, why haven’t the Republicans been able to pass that legislation in the last six years while they were passing everything else?
tags: Bill Frist, Katie Couric, Arctic Drilling, Bill Clinton, gas prices, Republicans
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